New PCI Compliance Audit APIs for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 5.2
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...
View ArticleHow to upgrade VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) with PVSCSI controller...
If you are running VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) in a lab using Nested ESXi and you attempt an upgrade workflow, you may find the following upgrade pre-check fail with the following message: VSAN SCSI...
View ArticleQuick Tip - vCenter Server Advanced Settings Reference
Simliar to my ESXi Advanced and Kernel Settings reference, I was recently asked about creating one for vCenter Server to capture all the default out of the box advanced settings. With some automation...
View ArticleOn-Demand session URLs for VMware Explore Las Vegas 2024
VMware Explore Las Vegas 2024 officially wraps up today! I thoroughly enjoyed the event and had fantastic conversations with customers, partners and colleague! The VMware Explore team has already been...
View ArticleFirst Look at VMware Cloud Foundation 9
The big news from last week at VMware Explore Las Vegas was the announcement of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9! For those that attended the VCF Division Keynote 3 Transformations for the Smarter Way...
View ArticleQuick Tip - Retrieving vSAN Congestion Health Programmatically
While catching up on post-Explore email, I received a question from a customer who has a large number of vSAN deployments spanning their ROBO environment. In one of their environment, they had some...
View ArticleESXi on SimplyNUC extremeEDGE 3000 Series
The folks over at SimplyNUC has recently launched an exciting new Edge-focused product line called the extremeEDGE (EE) Servers and I recently had the opportunity to try out their latest 3000 Series...
View ArticleQuick Tip - NVMe Tiering configured but not working?
Since publishing my NVMe Tiering in vSphere 8.0 Update 3 is a Homelab game changer blog post, the feedback and responses have been absolutely phenomenal! It will be just a matter of time until we can...
View ArticleIntel Neural Processing Unit (NPU) with ESXi
Starting with Intel Meteor Lake (14th Generation) CPUs, now part of the new Intel Core Ultra Processor (Series 1) brand, an integrated Neural Processing Unit or NPU is built right into the SoC...
View ArticleHow much Virtual Machine memory is using NVMe Tiering?
I know many in the VMware Community have upgraded to vSphere 8.0 Update 3 to play with the exciting new NVMe Tiering feature, especially for testing various workloads including deploying VMware Cloud...
View ArticleQuick Tip - API for Broadcom Security Advisories
Broadcom publishes all security advisories within the Broadcom Support Portal (BSP), under Security Advisories on left hand navigation, which will take you to...
View ArticleThank You - Tour de Cure 2024
Today, I participated in the Tour de Cure 2024 with Team VMware to support the American Diabetes Association (ADA). For Team VMware, we raised a total of $24,080 for this amazing charity and a huge...
View ArticleESXi on ASUS NUC 14 Pro (Revel Canyon)
The ASUS NUC 14 Pro (formally known as Revel Canyon) is the first ASUS-based NUC since the acquisition of the NUC Division from Intel last fall. I know many of my readers have been requesting a review...
View ArticleQuick Tip - Monitoring ESXi remote syslog forwarding
When an ESXi host is unable to forward its logs to a remote syslog server, a VMkernel Observation (VOB) is automatically raised by the host and it can be used to proactively alert administrators, which...
View ArticleUseful NVMe Tiering reporting using vSphere 8.0 Update 3 APIs
After successfully enabling the NVMe Tiering feature, which was introduced in vSphere 8.0 Update 3, you can find some useful details about your NVMe Tiering configuration by navigating to a specific...
View ArticleUpdated Dashboard for VMware Community Homelabs using Dashimo
While working on some data analysis for an internal project, I was looking for a better way to summarize and provide some visualizations of the raw data for better consumption. I also wanted to...
View ArticleQuick Tip - Using PowerCLI to query VMware Tools Configuration at scale
One of the most powerful and versatile VM management capability in vSphere is the Guest Operations API, providing a rich set of operations from transferring files to/from the guest to running commands...
View ArticleQuick Tip - SSH Server, Client & Authorized Key Configurations for ESXi 7.0...
The general best practice is to disable SSH on your ESXi host by default and if/when you need access, you can turn it on temporarily and disable it when you have completed your task. For users that...
View ArticleESXi on ASUS NUC 14 Performance (Scorpion Canyon)
In addition to the ASUS NUC 14 Pro (which I recently reviewed), ASUS has also released the ASUS NUC 14 Performance (formally known as Scorpion Canyon) as part of their Intel 14th Generation (Meteor...
View ArticleQuick Tip - Retrieving vSAN File Share Network Permissions using vSAN API &...
When creating a new vSAN File Share, which is powered by vSAN File Services, additional network access controls (no access, allow access from any IP or custom) can be configured. To view the...
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