Custom ESXi “Dummy” Reboot VIB for vSphere…

Custom ESXi “Dummy” Reboot VIB for vSphere…

A few weeks back, I had a request from one of our Technical Adoption Managers (TAM) that their customer wanted to create a custom ESXi VIB that could be used with vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) and would only require the ESXi host to reboot as part of the remediation. This might sound like […]


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Dynamic ESXi firewall rulset for non-standard…

Dynamic ESXi firewall rulset for non-standard…

For most users who configure syslog for their ESXi hosts (hopefully everyone is doing that for audit, compliance and troubleshooting purposes), they typically stick with the default syslog ports 514 for UDP/TCP or 1415 for TLS. A huge benefit of using the default syslog ports is that the ESXi […]


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VMware vSAN 8 Express Storage Architecture…

VMware vSAN 8 Express Storage Architecture…

I need more and more and …….!!! – The ever-growing demand of Business-Critical workloads especially Oracle workloads where CPU, Memory & IO intensive operations drives critical business transactions to achieve business SLA’ and targets in a timely fashion. Enabling, sustaining, and ensuring the [..]


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