Daniel Micanek virtual Blog – Like normal Dan, but virtual.
VMware is here to shake things up with their latest offerings, VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware vSphere Foundation! With VMware Cloud Foundation, managing your cloud infrastructure has never been easier, providing a unified platform for seamless deployment and management of applications […]
In November 2022, I wrote a post on my endeavor about installing PowerCLI on my Windows box. I needed PowerCLI 13, which was the only way to create custom ISO images for ESXi 8. Check these posts […]
Since the announcement of the two new VMware offerings: VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) at the end of 2023, I have been trying to wrap my head around the new offers and to better help me understand the next level of details, I have put together several diagrams […]
I recently helped a colleague who wanted to mark an HDD device in ESXi to show up as an SSD, which may be needed if the storage device was not correctly detected or if you are using Nested ESXi and the underlying storage is not an SSD and you need to mark it as an […]
Deploying Linux for the impatient | If you’ve ever wanted to just “test something out really quick” in a live environment, Linux distributions have always been generally lightweight, but that’s not the only implicit requirement for experimentation.
There are various and good blog posts describing how to implement the different port mirror (aka SPAN – Switched Port Analyzer) session types available in NSX-T. Since v3.2 all types (Logical SPAN and Remote L3 SPAN) can be configured from policy view. In this post, I would like to touch […]
Automating counting cores & TiBs for new VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) SKUs
Happy New Year! 🥳🎉🥂 At the end of 2023, we announced two new offerings called VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) that drastically simplifies our overall vSphere-based portfolio and licensing model. To help our users understand the new licensing model which uses both CPU cores and TiB (for vSAN storage sizing), I […]
Learn how to use Proxmox VE for nested ESXi virtualization in your home lab with this step-by-step guide. Learn ESXi clustering and other configurations with nested virtualization.
The Issue | I keep saying, there are no new ideas in technology, just re-hashes of old ones. That is also true for VMware and their data loss issues. The vSphere-based change block tracking (CBT) bug […]
So since all the announcement’s at VMware Explore 2023 in Vegas I thought it was time to get my lab back in order along with all the latest updates. I noticed during some of the sessions that a project called Holodeck was mentioned and soon found this was a great expansion of an automated full […]
