Daniel Micanek virtual Blog – Like normal Dan, but virtual.
If you have been following my recent adventures in playing with both Authentik and Keycloak as an OAuth/OIDC Identity Provider (IdP) for use with vCenter Server or VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Identity Federation, you can take it one step further and authenticate with a Yubico YubiKey or Apple […]
The long awaited 64GB DDR5 SODIMM memory modules from Crucial was just released this week! 😁 I was so excited about the news, I quickly splurged on a pair of these brand new modules, which are currently priced at $364 USD on Amazon! 😅💰 As of publishing this blog post, there is currently no […]
I had a customer that recently reached out asking how they could easily audit their entire ESXi infrastructure to determine which hosts was still booting using the legacy BIOS firmware, which has been deprecated and will be removed in a future vSphere release, in favor of the industry standard […]
I just had a discussion with someone who had to disable the vSAN service, while the cluster was running a production workload. They had all their VMs running on 3rd party storage, so vSAN was empty […]
The VMware Cloud Foundation performance engineering team at Broadcom is pleased to announce an updated technical paper on tagging performance best practices for VMware vCenter 8.0 U3. The paper describes some improvements to the performance of various tagging APIs that are available for vCenter [..]
Take control of your ESXi networking with a simple command-line trick! 🚀 Easily rename VMNICs to keep your setup clean and organized. Just list the current aliases, update the VMNIC name, and reboot—it’s that easy!
Several weeks back I had shared a solution in which you can install a hardware mock VIB for Nested ESXi when using vSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA) and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) to work around the vSAN ESA certified disks pre-check validations. While the majority of my testing uses […]
This plugin elevates GPU metrics to the cluster level in vSphere, which is compatible with vSphere 7 and 8. And it only supports NVIDIA GPUs at the time. We can collect the GPU utilization monitoring, temperature tracking and capacity planning. Download the Plugin […]
In IT, you never know when you need to quickly spin up a web server for hosting files … One of my favorite and super easy way to do this is by leveraging Python’s SimpleHTTPServer which can immediately serve files within a directory with this 1-liner: python -m SimpleHTTPServer 9000. This […]
Whether you are configuring vSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA) directly from vCenter Server or from VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), the underlying ESXi hardware is automatically validated against the vSAN ESA Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) to ensure that you are using supported vSAN […]
