As a VMware vExpert, one of the areas that I am particularly passionate about is NSX, VMware’s network virtualization and security platform. NSX allows organizations to virtualize their entire network infrastructure, from the data center to the cloud, providing a wide range of benefits such as increased agility, scalability, and security. One of the key…
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VMware has refreshed the prerequisites for running Kubernetes on VMware Cloud Foundation, and I’m glad to see that the necessities has been downsized a lot. The news is that it is presently empower the Kubernetes Supervisor Control Plane on the administration Workload Domain, relinquishing the hard necessity of running it in a different Workload Domain,…
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VMware Cloud on AWS is a service offered by VMware that allows organizations to run their VMware-based workloads on Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure. This service provides a seamless and secure hybrid cloud experience, allowing organizations to easily extend their existing on-premises VMware environments to the cloud. In this blog post, we’ll explore the key…
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Version Release Name Release Date Build Number Installer Build Number ESXi 7.0 Update 1b ESXi 7.0 Update 1b 11/19/2020 17168206 N/A ESXi 7.0 Update 1a ESXi 7.0 Update 1a 11/04/2020 17119627 N/A ESXi 7.0 Update 1 ESXi 7.0 Update 1 10/06/2020 16850804 N/A ESXi 7.0b ESXi 7.0b 06/23/2020 16324942 N/A ESXi 7.0 GA ESXi 7.0…
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I was recently given the opportunity to present at the North West England VMUG (VMware User Group) to give an update on VMware Education & Certification. The original presenter was forced to cancel at the last minute and I was luckily able to step and fill the presenter’s shoes. This did of course mean having…
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To build upon my previous docker/photon post here, I wanted to move away from the theory and show you how you can download VMware’s Photon OS, install Docker, and then run a WordPress container to show it all in action. It’s a simple process once you know how, but to get to this point, I…
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To encrypt or not to encrypt, what is the difference?? The integrity, or rather the protection of data at rest and in motion are hot topics, both in and outside the datacentre. This article focuses more on the two VMware options of data at rest encryption – VM encryption and vSAN encryption. It’s easy…
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In this blog I go through my ideas on the lab architecture and design Part #1 to this blog series focused on the hardware choices I went through and the reasons I discarded some perfectly good options for others. This, as with so many things comes down to the bottom line – costs. This, the…
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In this blog I go through my initial thoughts and decisions on the choice of hardware. As this is my first blog article, I’m going to spread the topic over several parts. This multipart blog is my journey on architecting, purchasing and building my VMware home lab environment. I’m the kind of person who loves…
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Yes you heard correctly VMware is releasing ESXi onto ARM Servers this has been done so that VMware can push there technology from the Datacenters to the edge and onto Internet of Things (IoT). VMware demostrated a box running VMware ESXi 6.8.2 which had been running on a windmill farm for over 180 days, the…
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