After getting hands on with the Lenovo P3 Tiny, which was my first time experiencing a Lenovo kit, I was recommended by the Lenovo team to also check out its larger and more powerful sibling the Lenovo P3 Ultra. While many of the smaller form factor systems have gotten more capable over the years, especially the…
Month: September 2023
Quick Tip – vSphere 7.0 Update 3o also supports disabling/enabling vSphere Cluster Services (vCLS) in vSphere UI
I recently shared that in vSphere 8.0 Update, you can now easily manage the vSphere Cluster Services (vCLS) configuration by using either the vSphere UI or a new vSphere API, which simplifies this operation if you need to disable vCLS for a particular vSphere Cluster or if you need to remediate one by disabling and…
Heads Up – New image identifier required by VM Service in vSphere 8.0 Update 2
I have been a huge fan of the VM Service capability, which has been an integrat part of vSphere with Tanzu since its inception with the release of vSphere 7.0 Update 2. The VM Service had another major update last year that enabled further customization of workloads with the Sphere 8.0 release. What makes the…
Do I need 2 isolation addresses with a (vSAN) stretched cluster for vSphere HA?
This question has come up multiple times now, so I figured I would write a quick post about it, do you need 2 isolation addresses with a (vSAN) stretched cluster for vSphere HA? This question comes up as the documentation has best practices around the configuration of HA isolation addresses for stretched clusters. The documentation…
How to setup private GitLab on a Synology for Project Keswick?
My recent blog post on setting up a custom vSphere Content Library on my Synology gave me another idea that I had been thinking about regarding Project Keswick, which was announced back at VMware Explore Las Vegas. One of the advanced deployment options that Project Keswick supports today is using a private GitLab repository for…
vSAN ReadyNode emulated configurations? What are those?
Last week Pete Koehler dropped a bomb on us when he blogged about vSAN ReadyNode emulated configurations. Since then I had a few folks asking what this exactly is. It is fairly simple, some vendors have special SKUs for ReadyNodes, which doesn’t always make configuring a ReadyNode to the desired specifications based on the minimum…
ESXi on SimplyNUC Moonstone
SimplyNUC has been a long time partner/reseller of the popular Intel NUC platform for quite some time but over the past few years, they have expanded their portfolio to include additional 4×4 systems that are completely designed in-house by SimplyNUC include Topaz, Ruby, Cypress and Chapel Rock to just name a few. Moonstone is the latest…
vSphere 8.0 U2 and vSAN 8.0 U2 just shipped, learn all about it here!
vSphere 8.0 U2 and vSAN 8.0 U2 just shipped, and of course the Unexplored Territory Podcast has already covered this. If you want to learn all about it make sure to listen to the episode below. Or of course read the release notes (vCenter, ESXi, vSAN). You can find the vSAN 8.0 U2 episode on…
Deleting the vCLS VMs using Retreat Mode starting with vSphere 8.0 U2
I posted about “retreat mode” and how to delete the vCLS VMs when needed a while back, including a quick demo. Back then you needed to configure an advanced setting for a cluster if you wanted to delete the VMs for whatever reason. (Usually for troubleshooting purposes people would do a delete/recreate.) Starting with vSphere…
Easily disable vSphere Cluster Services (vCLS) using UI/API in vSphere 8.0 Update 2
As shared on Twitter/X yesterday, I just learned that we have made it much easier to disable (as well as enable) the vSphere Cluster Services (vCLS) using the vSphere UI and API in the upcoming vSphere 8.0 Update 2 release. vCLS is enabled by default when a new vSphere Cluster is created and is required…