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Category: VMware/VMware Cloud on AWS/vSAN

VMC – vSAN ESA

Posted On November 17, 2023November 17, 2023 By James

vSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA) was announced at VMware Explore last year (2022) and while it’s been available for our on-premise customers for nearly a year it hasn’t been available in VMC until now…. With the release of the M24 version of VMC. It is now an option for newly Continue Reading

Category: VMware/Personal/vSphere

Advanced Deploy VMware vSphere 7.x 3V0-22.21N

Posted On November 10, 2023November 17, 2023 By James

Yesterday I sat and passed the above exam. It had been on my todo list for a good number of years. With the current pause in the Broadcom VMware takeover deal. I had some downtime and decided to use one of the three exam vouchers VMware give me each year. Continue Reading

Category: Homelab/VMware

Nvidia Tesla P4 Homelab Setup

Posted On October 23, 2023November 17, 2023 By James

A little while ago I decided to play with vGPU in my homelab. This was something I had dabbled with in the past but never really had the time or need to get working properly. The first thing that I needed was a GPU. I did have a Dell T20 Continue Reading

Category: VMware/Personal

VMware – Going out with a Bang!

Posted On October 7, 2023November 17, 2023 By James

There is a lot of uncertainty with VMware at the moment. This is all due to the pending acquisition by Broadcom. There are a lot of unknowns for the staff and customers about what the company will look like in the future. I certainly have some concerns mainly just with Continue Reading

Category: Runecast/VMware

Runecast Remediation Script’s

Posted On May 16, 2023November 17, 2023 By James

I am a huge fan of the Runecast product and luckily as a vExpert they give out NFR licences for my lab. One of the really cool features I wanted to mention today was the remediation script function. I have been playing with storage a lot in my lab recently Continue Reading

Category: Homelab/Networking/Storage/VMware

100Gb/s in my Homelab

Posted On December 19, 2022November 11, 2023 By James

For a while, I’ve been looking to update the networking at the core of my homelab. I have had some great results with the current setup utilising a number of DAC’s but there were a couple of things that were annoying me. Then MikroTik dropped the CRS504-4XQ-IN and if the Continue Reading

Category: Homelab/VMware/vSphere

Forcing an Upgrade to vSphere 8

Posted On December 14, 2022November 11, 2023 By James

I run a reasonably extensive homelab that is of course built around the VMware ecosystem. So with the release of vSphere 8 I was obviously going to upgrade however a few personal things blocked me from doing it until now. The vCentre upgrade was smooth however knowing that some of Continue Reading

Category: VMware/VCDR/VMware Cloud on AWS

VMC Useful Links

Posted On November 15, 2022November 30, 2023 By James

As part of my day job at VMware, I look after the VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC) and VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery (VCDR) products in VMware’s Hybrid Cloud portfolio. This is a page of handy links (effectively a dump of my bookmarks) of the public-facing information and tools. Cloud Services Continue Reading

Category: Homelab/Veeam/VMware

Lab Update – Desired Workloads

Posted On January 6, 2022November 11, 2023 By James

My lab is always undergoing change. Partially as I want to try new things or new ways of doing things. Sometimes because I break things (not always by accident) sometimes it’s a great way to learn…. I decided to list the workloads I am looking to run (some of these Continue Reading

Category: Homelab/VMware

Lab Update – Compute

Posted On January 6, 2022November 11, 2023 By Jamescomment

Quite a few changes have happened in the lab recently. so I decided to do a multipart blog on the changes. The refresh was triggered by the purchase of a SuperMicro Server (2027TR-H71FRF) chassis with 4x X9DRT Nodes / Blades. This is known as a BigTwin configuration in SuperMicro parlance. Continue Reading

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