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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 […]
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 […]
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 [..]
While catching up on my RSS news feed over the weekend, I came across an interesting article titled: Ancient pre-release version of OS/2 2.0 discovered, released in VM-friendly packages and of course the VM-friendly packages caught my attention but I had never heard of or used OS/2 before. […]
We’ve completely redefined and are relaunching our VMware Cloud Service Provider (VCSP) program with new tiers and new benefits.
In this video I am showing how to automate nested ESXi deployment using William Lam’s Script for consumption in your lab.You can download his script by visiting his blog.
In this mini project, we are going to learn the following: + Deploy a simple Python based web application on a Kubernetes cluster; +We will use Helm to deploy this app; +This web app uses FastAPI and exposes some metrics using the Prometheus Python client; +To store and visualize these […]
With the new SKU release in simplifying customer purchase, there are certain guideline in place in purchasing the different license SKU. To help architects from partners and also end user, I have created this simple calculator for ease of sizing the license needed. Do note this is accurate […]
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My previous blog article, is about the integration of NSX ALB for K8s as ingress controller based on AKO (AVI Kubernetes Operator). Both blog articles are focused on VMware Tanzu for vSphere, but the previous one was based on vSphere 7 and this one will be based on vSphere 8.
