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Guides, fixes and news from my VMware lab. Covers vSphere, VCF, vSAN, NSX and Aria, plus Broadcom licensing changes and my yearly end-of-life rundowns.

2020

VMware vSAN 7.0 Update 1 – All the new features

vSAN & Tanzu Improvements With vSAN 7.0 Update 1, it will be possible to extend TKG Guest cluster volumes. Supervisor and Guest Kubernetes clusters will benefit from the new…

VMware vSAN4 min

VMware vSphere 7.0 Update 1 – What’s coming soon?

VMware vSphere with Tanzu Back in April 2020 and alongside vSphere 7.0, VMware released the Tanzu (Kubernetes) solution suite but it was only available with VMware Cloud…

vSphere3 min

5 Tips for VMworld 2020

VMworld 2020 will be virtual # I'm sure many of us already know that VMware has taken the necessary steps to cancel this year's in-person event, replacing it with an online…

vCommunity3 min

The new vCenter Server 7.0 Update Planner

Before upgrading your vCenter Server or VCSA, it's always time-consuming to work out if other solutions need upgrading prior to the VCSA. Yes, VMware has an excellent…

vSphere3 min

Sending vROps Alerts to Slack

If you are a VMware vRealize Operations (vROps) customer and a slack user, then you'll probably be pleased to see native Slack integration with vROps. It's been possible to post…

VMware Cloud3 min

VMworld 2020 is FREE!

Fortunately, I've been able to attend the last 3 VMworld events in Barcelona but unless you are sponsored or your workplace pays for your ticket, the cost of attending the US…

vCommunity3 min

Monitoring SSL Certificate Expiry With vRealize Operations

vROps is my go-to tool for monitoring all things on-premises and cloud. With native support for vSphere, AWS, Azure and GCP the solution had developed into a true multi-cloud…

VMware vRealize (Aria)5 min

Monitoring AWS Services with VMware vRealize Operations 8.1

vROps 8.1 introduces improved native Cloud monitoring and management with: VMware Cloud on AWS Amazon AWS Google Cloud Platform Microsoft Azure You can read more about the…

VMware vRealize (Aria)4 min

Official VMware Visio Stencils & Icons

For many years it concerned me that there has been no official Visio Stencils, Draw.io or other Icons for the documentation of VMware solutions. There are some unofficial icon…

vCommunity1 min

Getting Started with SRM 8.3 and vSphere 7.0

Site Recovery Manager has come a long way in the last few years. VMware introduced the appliance version in 8.2 to meet the demands of their customer who needed an easy to…

vSphere2 min