Search /
~ / VMware

VMware

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.

2021

How can VMware vSAN benefit your business?

VMware's vSAN solution was first launched back in March 2014 as VMware Virtual SAN 5.5. Now, more than 7 years later, vSAN is a stable platform with a complete set of…

VMware vSAN6 min

vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager – Getting Started

vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager is VMware's solution to deploy, configure and upgrade the vRealize solution stack: vRealize Operations vRealize Automation vRealize Business for…

VMware Cloud9 min

How to upgrade to VMware vCenter Server VCSA 7.0 Update 2

You may have heard the recent news that VMware has just released vCenter Server (VCSA) 7.0 Update 2, you can read about all the new features here. Easily upgrading your vCenter…

vSphere2 min

VMware vSphere 7 Update 2 – What’s new? (Hint: Lots!)

vSphere 7.0 was released in 2020, less than a year later we have had vSphere 7 Update 1, and now vSphere 7 Update 2 is coming soon! Get your beverage of choice and snacks ready…

vSphere7 min

Annual vExpert 2021 Sticker Giveaway

The first batch of stickers have all gone! Check back next week for updates. Every year I give away free stickers to vExperts. This is my way of thanking the vExpert community who…

vCommunity1 min

Getting started with Puppet 7 Open Source and VMware

Puppet is a great automation tool for managing all of your Virtual Machines. Puppet Open Source is free and supports the management of most operating systems from Windows, Linux…

Linux6 min

CentOS 8 Stream & VMware vSphere

Recently. you may have heard about the new CentOS operating system, Centos Stream. There is quite a bit of confusion about this online so I have put this post together to clear up…

vSphere3 min
2020

VCAP-DCV Deploy 2020 – Exam Simulator – FREE

For those taking exam 3V0-21.20 (also known as Advanced Deploy VMware vSphere 6.7) then you'll know that the exam is a real lab that you need to fix issues in or change…

vSphere10 min

How To Install ESXi on Raspberry Pi

As I discussed in a recent post, VMware has released an "unofficial" fling for ESXi on ARM. Ths good news is that this works on the Raspberry Pi! There are several considerations…

vSphere4 min

ESXi on Raspberry Pi is Finally Here!

Last year at VMworld I wrote about ESXi on Arm and Raspberry Pi At the time, it felt like something official was in the works, but no one was giving anything away. While today's…

vSphere3 min