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vSAN Networking – Network Oversubscription
It is not unusual for a virtualization administrator to request little more than connectivity to a certain number of network ports and perhaps some VLANs in their Top-of-Rack (ToR) network switches. Knowing what is beyond your up-stream ToR switches is essential in your ability to provide a […]
Join this session to learn how VCF makes it easy to run modern and traditional workloads side by side and enables cloud admin teams and platform teams to collaborate so much better. This is a part 2 deep dive.
We’re pleased to officially launch VMware Cloud Foundation usage meter v9.0 (VCF usage meter), previously branded as VMware vCloud Usage Meter, available from May 7, 2025. VCF Usage Meter overview VCF usage meter is a virtual appliance deployed on a vCenter Server instance within a VMware […]
After several months, attempts, and VCF rebuilds to get BGP peering with VMware Cloud Foundation, NSX, and my Ubiquiti Unifi network, it finally happened. I wanted to share my experience. This required a lot of help from internal rock star TAMs in our organization, external blogs, […]
Learn about the power of automating your home lab with Ansible, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines with your Git repository
The GMKtec NucBox has been growing in popularity amongst the VMware community as a modern AMD Ryzen-based alternative to the Intel/ASUS NUC, offering many of the same advantages while avoiding some of the drawbacks of Intel’s Hybrid CPU architecture. In preparation for my upcoming session at […]
Looking for your Home Lab Licenses to run either vSphere Standard Edition or VCF? This article should give you what you need to know to make this happen. VCP-VCF with VMUG Advantage now ready to unlock vSphere Standard Edition or VCF!
Looking for your Home Lab Licenses to run either vSphere Standard Edition or VCF? This article should give you what you need to know to make this happen. VCP-VCF with VMUG Advantage now ready to unlock vSphere Standard Edition or VCF!
TPM is an industry-wide standard for secure cryptoprocessors. Since vSphere 6.7 VMware has supported TPM v2.0 A Trusted Platform Module (TPM) is a specialized microcontroller designed to secure hardware through integrated cryptographic keys. It is embedded […]
In this post, we’ll walk through the step-by-step process of deploying of the vSAN Witness Appliance for my Homelab’s 2-node vSAN cluster. Before we dive into the deployment, let’s quickly recap how a 2-node vSAN cluster works. Unlike larger vSAN clusters that require a minimum of three vSAN […]
The long awaited 64GB DDR5 SODIMM memory modules from Crucial was just released this week! 😁 I was so excited about the news, I quickly splurged on a pair of these brand new modules, which are currently priced at $364 USD on Amazon! 😅💰 As of publishing this blog post, there is currently no […]
