Can I disable the vSAN service if the cluster…
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 […]
VMware vCenter 8.0 U3 Tagging Performance Best…
VMware vCenter 8.0 U3 Tagging Performance Best…
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 [..]
How to change vmnic name on an ESXi host via CLI
How to change vmnic name on an ESXi host via CLI
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!
vSAN ESA hardware mock VIB for physical ESXi…
vSAN ESA hardware mock VIB for physical ESXi…
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 […]
vSphere GPU Monitoring Plugin
vSphere GPU Monitoring Plugin
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 […]
Quick Tip – Easily host VMware Cloud Foundation…
Quick Tip – Easily host VMware Cloud Foundation…
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 […]
vSAN ESA HCL hardware mock VIB for Nested ESXi
vSAN ESA HCL hardware mock VIB for Nested ESXi
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 […]
vExpert Program Value & Application Process -…
vExpert Program Value & Application Process -…
Applications for the 2025 vExpert program are now open, with the application deadline newly extended to January 24th, 2025. The vExpert awards are expected to be announced in mid to late February. In this blog post, I will dive into the value of being a vExpert, what it takes to earn the award […]
Troubleshooting vRA upgrade – Aria Automation…
Troubleshooting vRA upgrade – Aria Automation…
While upgrading vRealize to Aria Automation I ran into some blocking issues, I share in this article the KB and commands that helped me solve them and complete the upgrade.
Upgrade vRA 8.11.2 to 8.18.0 – Aria Automation…
Upgrade vRA 8.11.2 to 8.18.0 – Aria Automation…
And now comes the best part 🙂 As you have seen, the installation with Easy Installer is not complicated, the upgrade requires more attention.