Introducing the vSphere GPU Monitoring Fling

Introducing the vSphere GPU Monitoring Fling

With the explosion of use cases in Generative AI, along with existing AI and ML workloads, everyone wants more GPUs and to maximize their usage of the ones they have. Today, GPU usage metrics are available only at the host level in vSphere, and with this Fling you can now see them at the Cluster …Read More


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New PCI Compliance Audit APIs for VMware Cloud…

New PCI Compliance Audit APIs for VMware Cloud…

One very interesting capability that I had noticed while reading the the latest VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 5.2 release notes are new VCF APIs for auditing PCI Compliance. VCF users can now use a new set of APIs that audit VCF configuration for compliance with 9 relevant PCI-DSS controls In […]


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Encrypting Data Service Manager databases with…

Encrypting Data Service Manager databases with…

Following on from last weeks post on encrypting Kubernetes Persistent Volumes, I now wanted to see if I could use the vSphere Native Key Provider to encrypt databases provisioned by Data Services Manager version 2.1. The good news is that this is indeed possible, but we need to make some […]


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Tech Deep Dive: Automating VMware ESXi…

Tech Deep Dive: Automating VMware ESXi…

This session will bring together all the learnings and modern best practices in managing unattended installations of VMware ESXi, whether that is for a centralized data center deployment or far out at the edge. We will do a deep dive into the most common deployment scenarios, constraints […]


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Quick Tip – Disable network traffic monitoring…

Quick Tip – Disable network traffic monitoring (promiscuous) UI prompt in VMware Fusion

Quick Tip – Disable network traffic monitoring…

While working on some demos planned for my VMware Explore session, Tech Deep Dive: Automating VMware ESXi Installation At Scale [CODEB1574LV], I kept getting this network monitoring prompt when powering up my Nested ESXi VM running in VMware Fusion. Since Nested ESXi requires the use of promiscuous mode (for inner-VM networking), you will be prompted […]


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