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 hard at work in getting all sessions published into the free on-demand catalog, which is available for or EVERYONE to watch, but also new this…
Month: August 2024
Quick 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 in place, I deployed all major releases of the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) from 6.7 to 8.0 which is available in this…
How to upgrade VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) with PVSCSI controller incompatibility?
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 controller is not VMware certified You might think you are out of luck, but it is actually pretty straight forward to bypass…
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 set of APIs that audit VCF configuration for compliance with 9 relevant PCI-DSS controls In addition to exploring these new…
NVMe Tiering in vSphere 8.0 Update 3 is a Homelab game changer!
As someone who is always on the lookout for interesting and clever ways to make the most out of your vSphere homelab investment, I was surprised there has not been more noise about the new NVMe Tiering capability in vSphere 8.0 Update 3!? NVMe Tiering is currently in Tech Preview and it enables ESXi to…