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The Top DevOps Skills in 2026 You Can Learn in a Home Lab – #vExpert Brandon Lee
Learn the top DevOps skills you can practice in a home lab for 2026, including GitOps, Kubernetes, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and AI Ops.
Activate VCF Private AI Services
VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Private AI Services offers a set of services that enable you to easily and securely deploy AI workloads in your VCF environments. Watch the following video to learn how to activate VCF Private AI Services and start utilizing these AI capabilities immediately.
VMware Workstation Gen 9: Part 3 Windows Core Services and Routing. – #vExpert Matt Mancini
A big part of my nested VCF 9 environment relies on core services. Core services are AD, NTP, DHCP, and RAS. Core services are supplied by my Windows Server (aka AD230.nested.local). Of those services, RAS will enable routing between the LAN Segments and allow for Internet access. Additionally […]
VMware Workstation Gen 9: Part 2 Using Workstation Templates – In this blog post I’ll show you how I use Workstation templates to quickly deploy these hosts and the hardware layout. #vExpert Matt Mancini
Workstation templates are a quick and easy way to create VMs with common settings. My nested VCF 9 ESX Hosts have some commonalities where they could benefit from template deployments. In this blog post I’ll show you how I use Workstation templates to quickly deploy these hosts and […]
VMware Workstation Gen 9: Part 1 – Goals, Requirements, and a bit of planning. #vExpert Matt Mancini
It’s time to build my VMware Workstation–based home lab with VCF 9. In a recent blog post, I documented my upgrade journey from VMware Workstation 17 to 25H2. In this installment, we’ll go deeper into the goals, requirements, and overall planning for this new environment. As you read through […]
vSphere 8 to VVF 9 Migration – Part 1. This is Part 1 of a series to upgrade an environment from vSphere 8 to VMware vSphere Foundation 9. – #vExpert Matt Heldstab
This is Part 1 of a series to upgrade an environment from vSphere 8 to VMware vSphere Foundation 9. It covers: * vCenter 8u3 to 9.0.1 upgrade stage 1 […]
Memory Tiering with VCF9 – Next Level SDDC | Rather than relying solely on traditional DRAM, VCF9 lets you leverage NVMe SSDs as a second memory tier, effectively expanding your available memory footprint without proportionally increasing hardware spend. – #vExpert Danny Alvarez
One of the standout enhancements in VMware Cloud Foundation 9 (VCF9) is Advanced Memory Tiering with NVMe. This a feature that fundamentally changes how we think about host memory capacity and cost efficiency. Rather than relying solely on traditional DRAM, VCF9 lets you leverage NVMe SSDs as […]
HA Is Not DR – How to Avoid Extended Outages – Next Level SDDC. A common misconception I see out there is that, while High Availability and Disaster Recovery are not the same, I still see them sometimes designed as if they are. Confusing the two is one of the most common architectural mistakes I still see in modern VMware environments. – #vExpert Danny Alvarez
A common misconception I see out there is that, while High Availability and Disaster Recovery are not the same, I still see them sometimes designed as if they are. Confusing the two is one of the most common architectural mistakes I still see in modern VMware environments. […]
10 Small Changes That Made My Home Lab Far More Reliable. – #vExpert Brandon Lee
Small, practical changes that improved my home lab reliability, stability, and uptime without new hardware. Real lessons from running a reliable home lab.
War rooms and manual runbooks are doing more than slowing SAP teams down. They are burning out your best experts.
This blog explores the human cost of manual SAP operations and how automated orchestration with Automic Automation helps teams move from reactive firefighting to consistent, scalable execution.
Read the blog to see how leading SAP teams are reclaiming time, talent, and trust. ⬇️
It’s a scenario every SAP Basis lead knows well. A critical system refresh fails, a project is delayed, and suddenly your team is dragged into a “war room”.
