Last week at VMware Explore a few vSAN features and offerings were announced, one of them being vSAN Max! All week I have been having conversations with customers who were highly excited about the new solution. For those who did not read the announcements, or listened to the Unexplored Territory Podcast episode on the topic,…
Month: August 2023
First look at Project Keswick
VMware Edge Cloud Orchestrator (VECO) was announced at VMware Explore US last week and one of the components that it is built on is using something called Project Keswick. @alanrenouf and Elliot now on stage to talk about Project Keswick which VECO is built on #VMwareExplore pic.twitter.com/v9r29qDLIX — William Lam (@lamw.bsky.social | @*protected email*) (@lamw)…
On-Demand session URLs for VMware Explore US 2023
VMware Explore 2023 has officially concluded! Thank you to all the customers, partners and colleagues that I had a chance to connect with during the conference. While I was not able to attend as many breakout sessions as I had planned, all sessions are recorded and are available in VMware Explore Video Library for 2023. Just…
How to check the number of days before ESXi password expires?
Local user accounts created in ESXi including the root user has a default password expiration of 99999 days before administrators need to change the password. Users can control the password expiry by modifying the following ESXi Advanced Setting called Security.PasswordMaxDays which is also referenced in the ESXi Security Documentation along with other advanced configurations. Password rotation…
How to relocate an existing vSphere Content Library from one vSphere Datastore to another?
When you create a vSphere Content Library using vCenter Server, the content library is comprised of both the raw uploaded files (OVF, OVA, VM Templates, ISO, etc) which are stored in a vSphere Datastore and the metadata that is generated by vCenter Server for the individual files, which are stored in the vCenter Server Database…