VCF 9.1 – Comprehensive ESX Configuration Workarounds for Lab Deployments
With the announcement of VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1, I know many of you are eager to start planning for 9.1 and get it into your lab environment for hands-on experience as the first step toward pre-production validation. Unless you are among the few […]
vSphere Express (128 cores, ESX 9 and vCenter 9, no DRS or vSAN) compared with vSphere Standard 8, which EEA customers can still buy until 31 October 2027 with Extended Support until October 2028: features, packaging, price, support window, upgrade path and what a small or mid-size EEA customer should do. As of November 2026.
vdan.cz/tools is a Progressive Web App: add it to the home screen on Android (Chrome, Firefox) or iPhone (Safari) and every tool opens full screen like a native app. Steps, what you get, and how it works.
21 ESXi advanced and kernel settings William Lam recommends for labs and consumer hardware, each with the exact esxcli command, the version it was written for, what changed since, and a deep link to the vDan ESXi settings explorer.
