VCP-VCF with VMUG Advantage now ready to unlock…

Looking for your Home Lab Licenses to run either vSphere Standard Edition or VCF? This article should give you what you need to know to make this happen. VCP-VCF with VMUG Advantage now ready to unlock vSphere Standard Edition or VCF!

VCP-VCF with VMUG Advantage now ready to unlock…

Looking for your Home Lab Licenses to run either vSphere Standard Edition or VCF? This article should give you what you need to know to make this happen. VCP-VCF with VMUG Advantage now ready to unlock vSphere Standard Edition or VCF!

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Quick Tip – Listing all vSphere Privilege…

Quick Tip – Listing all vSphere Privilege…

By design, the vSphere platform (includes vCenter Server and ESXi) is highly extensible and additional vSphere Events and Privileges can added by 2nd and 3rd party solutions. Similiar to vSphere Events, where you can query your specific vCenter Server (or ESXI hosts) to list all vSphere Event […]

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Enable TRIM/UNMAP from Nested vSAN OSA/ESA to…

Enable TRIM/UNMAP from Nested vSAN OSA/ESA to physical vSAN OSA

Enable TRIM/UNMAP from Nested vSAN OSA/ESA to…

If you are running Nested vSAN Original Storage Architecture (OSA) or vSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA) workloads on top of a physical vSAN OSA setup, you may want to enable the Guest TRIM/UNAMP capability, which would allow your the “inner” (Nested) workloads to pass the TRIM/UNMAP requests down into your physical vSAN OSA deployment for […]

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⭐️⭐️ The vExpert 2025 Awards – Congratulations…

⭐️⭐️ The vExpert 2025 Awards – Congratulations…

Thank you to everyone who applied for the vExpert program. A special thank you to the vExpert PROs for managing the application voting; it’s a lot of work! We are pleased to announce the list of 2025 vExperts. You can visit the vExpert Directory to see the list and profiles of each vExpert.

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Setup HTTPS for OIDC endpoint with Authentik…

Setup HTTPS for OIDC endpoint with Authentik…

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 […]

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128GB memory mini PCs is now a reality with…

128GB memory mini PCs is now a reality with…

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 […]

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Quick Tip – Auditing ESXi boot firmware type

Quick Tip – Auditing ESXi boot firmware type

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 […]

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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 [..]

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