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  • Overview of VMware Tanzu Application Platform

    What is VMware Tanzu Application Platform v1.1?

    There is no question that VMware is undergoing a metamorphosis from the traditional days of a hypervisor running virtual machines. VMware is now a powerful software company spearheading the pathway to the cloud for companies and facilitating multi-cloud architecture for…

  • VMware VMworld has been renamed VMware Explore

    VMware VMworld renamed to VMware Explore!

    There will no longer be a VMworld event if you haven’t heard the news. But, for those that know, love, and plan on attending VMworld and future VMworlds, don’t panic! VMware has renamed the VMworld even to VMware Explore. Why…

  • vSAN File Service architecture overview

    vSAN File Share with vSAN File Service Configuration and Setup

    I am a huge fan of VMware vSAN. It is a rock-solid solution to run mission-critical workloads. I also use it to power my VMware home lab. However, one of the features you may not readily think about with VMware…

  • View of the Server Device and Model information on the VMware compatibility site

    VMware ESXi 6.5 and 6.7 End of Support Reminder

    One of the downsides of the pandemic has been the last two years have been a blur. Keeping a check on end-of-life dates and other factors has been a challenge for many organizations. One of the looming deadlines that VMware…

  • Adding a new group name

    Identity Based Firewall configuration with NSX-T and vSphere

    For years now, organizations have based application access and access to resources and files on identity. Typically, this is based on memberships to groups in Microsoft Active Directory Domain Services (ADDS). We have all seen this in the corporate environment…

  • Using the Install NSX option from the vSphere Client

    vSphere NSX-T installation and configuration

    VMware NSX-T has certainly been rapidly maturing and has become an extremely robust and fully featured solution that transcends the VMware-only ecosystem to be a cloud software-defined networking solution for the masses. However, many customers running NSX-T will be running…

  • Viewing the pods in the unmanaged cluster

    Tanzu Community Edition 0.10 Released with Unmanaged Cluster Configuration

    In case you have not heard about it as of yet, Tanzu Community Edition (TCE) is a new free solution from VMware that allows ANYONE to have a free solution with enterprise features to run Kubernetes using the Tanzu solution.…

  • New VMware Cloud Foundation 4.4 bill of materials

    VMware Cloud Foundation VCF 4.4 Released with New Features

    VMware Cloud Foundation provides an all-in-one solution for a complete SDDC stack that can be delivered on-premises and in the cloud. Recently VMware announced the news that VMware Cloud Foundation VCF 4.4 was released with new features. Let’s take a…

  • Pre Update Check Results finding problematic hosts

    New vCenter Server 7 Update 3c Pre-Update Check Problematic hosts

    The vSphere 7 Update 3c update dropped just a few days ago and undoubtedly you guys have started updating your home lab environments and possibly even your production environments. With the vCenter Server 7 Update 3c release, VMware has introduced…

  • Download VMware vSphere 7 Update 3c

    VMware vSphere 7 Update 3c Released New Features

    As you guys recall, there was a bit of a snafu with the release of VMware vSphere ESXi 7 Update 3 with some pretty major bugs that turned up in production environments. VMware decided to pull the ESXi 7 Update…