This question has come up a few times now, what does Datastore Sharing/HCI Mesh/vSAN Max support when stretched? It is a question which keeps coming up somehow, and I personally had some challenges to find the statements in our documentation as well. I just found the statement and I wanted to first of all point…
Month: October 2023
Quick Tip – Microsoft Windows 11 Eval Images for VMware Hypervisors
If you are interested in evaluating Microsoft Windows 11, in addition to the ISO image, you can now download a pre-configured Windows 11 image (OVF) that can run on any VMware Desktop Hypervisor (Workstation, Player and Fusion) for 90 days! Per the documentation, the pre-built image includes the following: Windows 11 Enterprise (Evaluation) Visual Studio…
VMware Flings Update
This has been a difficult week for all VMware employees due to the pending acquisition of VMware by Broadcom. Many VMware employees are still waiting to hear back from Broadcom about their employment status either before and/or after the planned acquisition close date. I wanted to provide this context before sharing a quick update regarding…
Unexplored Territory episode 59: Introducing vSAN Max!
Two months ago VMware introduced vSAN Max at VMware Explore. I wrote about it in this blog. Last week I had a conversation with Kalyan Krishnaswamy on the topic of vSAN Max, for which Kalyan is the Product Manager. I figured I would share the episode via my blog as well for those who are…
Troubleshooting ESXi Shutting down firmware services and UEFI Runtime Services (RTS) error message
Several months back, I was helping a customer debug an issue where I needed to install the GA release of ESXi 6.7! Yikes, it certainly has been a minute since I have installed anything older than 7.x but I figured it should still work fine with recent hardware like an Intel NUC systems, right? After…
How to setup Harbor registry on Synology
With my recent exploration of GenAI and using a private ChatGPT solution with my own blog posts, I quickly realized in the space of AI/ML, the required software dependencies can take up a significant amount of storage, especially for a kubernetes/container-based deployment. To give you an example, to deploy the private ChatGPT (h2ogpt) application using…
NVIDIA GPU with Dynamic DirectPath IO (Passthrough) to Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) Cluster using vSphere with Tanzu
When provisioning a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Cluster (TKC) using vSphere with Tanzu, you can easily request an NVIDIA GPU resource as part of the deployment, which can either be provided by NVIDIA vGPU or using PCIe passthrough with Dynamic DirectPath IO. vGPU is great for those with a capable NVIDIA GPU, especially if the GPU…
Support for Virtual Trusted Platform Module (vTPM) on ESXi without vCenter Server?
Starting with vSphere 6.7, users have been able to add a Virtual Trusted Platform Module (vTPM) to a VM, enabling guest operating systems to create and store private keys using a software-based representation of a physical TPM 2.0 chip, that is completely transparent to the underlying OS. A major benefit of using vTPM is that…
How to download offline copy of the Tanzu Kubernetes releases (TKr) Content Library?
As part of the setup for vSphere with Tanzu, a local vSphere Content Library needs be created to store the various Tanzu Kubernetes releases (TKr) which users typically synchronize from VMware’s online TKr Content Library repository. I typically recommend configuring the content library subscription to only download files when needed, rather than the entire library,…
How to download offline copy of the Tanzu Kubernetes releases (TKr) Content Library?
As part of the setup for vSphere with Tanzu, a local vSphere Content Library needs be created to store the various Tanzu Kubernetes releases (TKr) which users typically synchronize from VMware’s online TKr Content Library repository. I typically recommend configuring the content library subscription to only download files when needed, rather than the entire library,…