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 start using RAID with NVME Tiering ! When it happens, it will be a HUGR game change! BTW, I’m…
Month: September 2024
ESXi 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 (3rd generation of their EE platform) in my homelab for some testing. At first glance, the kit reminds me of the SolidRun V3000…
PCI-DSS v4.0.1 Logging Recommendations
To meet PCI-DSS v4.0.1 requirement 10.2.1.1, which mandates that audit logs capture all individual user access to cardholder data, you can use the following Splunk queries. These queries are tailored separately for Windows and Linux servers: For Windows Servers index=your_index sourcetype=WinEventLog:Security | search “EventCode=4624” OR “EventCode=4634” OR “EventCode=4663” | stats count by user, host, _time…
Why vSAN Max aka disaggregated storage?
At VMware Explore 2024 in Las Vegas I had many customer meetings. Last year my calendar was also swamped and one of the things we spend a lot of time on was explaining to customers where vSAN Max would fit into the picture. vSAN Max was originally positioned as a “storage only vSAN platform for…
Quick 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 physical congestion issue that caused some problems for their vSAN stretched cluster and they were looking for a way to monitor the…
First 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 to Cloud, you got to hear more about VCF 9 directly from both Krish Prasad (General Manager of VCF Division) and…