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In both Microsoft Windows 10 and 11, Virtualization Based Security (VBS) is enabled by default and this capability uses Hyper-V under the hood, which is a form of Nested Virtualization. If you are using VMware Workstation and you attempt to power on a Nested ESXi VM, you probably will see one […]
With the introduction of Log Assist in Version 4.0.7 last week and the killing of the Skyline Advisor, the Skyline Health Diagnostic Appliance has come back into focus. In this article, I would like to show you how it works, what settings can be made and what functions the appliance offers. […]
In this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast, we delve into the world of AI with Justin Murray, Product Marketing Engineer, and Frank Denneman, Chief Technologist for AI at Broadcom. We discuss retrieval augmented generation (RAG), a powerful approach that combines large language models […]
During a VMware vSphere 7 to 8 upgrade, more precisely after the compliance check, I was confronted with the above error message. In this blog post I would like to show you how to solve the problem. Corrupt vFAT partitions already existed in vSphere 6.7 times and unfortunately they also appear […]
VMware Cloud Foundation offers a wide array of features and capabilities to help organizations be and stay secure. In the short time we have we’ll talk about recent improvements aimed at making hard security tasks easy or non-existent (ESXi Live Patch, Image-Based Lifecycle Management, audit & […]
VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Homelab Hardware Options
I have been getting a ton of inquiries lately, both internally as well as externally for hardware recommendations for building a new or updating an existing homelab/test environment to be able to deploy the full VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) solution. I typically receive at least half a dozen inquiries per week about general VMware Homelabs, […]
During the upgrade pre-check test of the Workload domain I got the following error: vSAN HCL DB Out of Date. Because my SDDC manager has no direct internet connection I needed to get the file […]
A fellow colleague was having some problems with the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) CLI Installer when using the vSAN ESA (Express Storage Architecture) bootstrap method, which automatically the configures vSAN ESA on a physical ESXi host before deploying the VCSA on top of the vSAN ESA […]
Recently it was announced that SIOC was going to be deprecated and that SDRS IO Load Balancing as a result would also be deprecated. The following was mentioned in the release notes of 8.0 Update 3: […]
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An inspiring evening of networking and meaningful conversations at the Community Leadership Reception at Explore in Barcelona.
The VMware Community truly is the heart of Explore.
It was an honor to meet Hock Tan CEO,
and engage with incredible leaders like Corey Romero hashtag#vExpert leader and Josef Zach, our hashtag#VMUG Czech leader.
