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Creating Custom Virtual Machine Classes using vSphere API – William Lam
Back in 2020, the vSphere UI was the only way to create your own custom Virtual Machine Classes, there was not a vSphere API and while you can directly connect to vSphere Supervisor Control Plane, it was not officially supported 🙂 With the release of vSphere 7.0 Update 2, the vSphere Automation …Read More
VCF 9.0 — vSphere Converge Journey | Interactive step-by-step portal for converting an existing vSphere environment into VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0. – #vExpert Piotr Tarnawski, AngrySysOps
Interactive step-by-step portal for converting an existing vSphere environment into VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0.
The Art of vSphere Performance:Optimize your workloads and clusters at Zero Cost | UK VMUG from October, 2025
Like a seasoned general, you must master the art of efficiency—tuning physical nodes, clusters, and virtual machines with precision to achieve victory. This session will equip you with the strategies and tactics needed to maximize application and infrastructure performance without spending a […]
vSAN Stretched Cluster | #vExpert Leif Hegdal
What is a stretched cluster? A vSAN stretched cluster is a deployment model where a single vSAN cluster is extended across two geographically separated data centers, with a third site hosting the Witness Appliance. This architecture provides site‑level resilience by synchronously […]
VMware vDefend DFW 1-2-3-4 Security Journey Stage 1 | This video demonstrates the first stage of the Security Journey, which starts with a security assessment and report to inform you of your security posture, and provides policy recommendations.
This video demonstrates the first stage of the Security Journey, which starts with a security assessment and report to inform you of your security posture, and provides policy recommendations.
VCF 9.0 Delivers 5.6X Pod Density and 4.9X Faster Pod Readiness than Red Hat OpenShift
A recent independent study, conducted by Principled Technologies, compared Kubernetes pod density and pod readiness speed between two environments – VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 with vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) 3.6 and Red Hat OpenShift 4.21 on bare metal. In this blog, we take a look [..]
Save the Date: #VMwareExplore 2026 is coming back to Las Vegas! Join us Aug. 31 – Sep. 3 for an experience full of next-gen tech, thought leadership, and hands-on learning.
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Explore is returning to Las Vegas Aug. 31 – Sep. 3, 2026. Mark your calendars. Registration goes live on April 28. Come for the training, leave with the skillset needed to reap the benefits of a comprehensive private cloud platform. Get ahead in building your modern infrastructure at Explore.
True cloud sovereignty requires more than local hosting. It demands that both the infrastructure and the jurisdiction are aligned with the customer’s own legal environment. Broadcom Field CTO Martin Hosken explains the urgency of sovereignty and why it must be embedded by design.
Sovereign cloud is one of the most widely used terms in enterprise technology, but true sovereignty goes far beyond local data residency or regional marketing claims. As US hyperscalers dominate more than two thirds of Europe’s cloud market, governments and enterprises must look beyond branding [..]
vSAN and the component limits! – Duncan Epping
Over the last few years, I’ve not had many discussions about component limits, but recently, these discussions have popped up more frequently, somehow. If you ask a customer what the component limit of vSAN is, some may say 9000 per host (OSA), others will say 27,000 per host (ESA), and some […]
Solving the “Shadow IT” Database Problem
What is Shadow IT? If you walk the halls of your development wing (or browse their Slack channels), you might find that your organization is running far more databases than you think. They aren’t in your CMDB, they aren’t being backed up by your central backup solution, and they weren’t […]
