vSphere 7 support extended!
Was April 2, 2025…is now October 2, 2025.
That will defiantly help a few folks out….
This Broadcom Lifecycle Support Portal link does require you to login to the Broadcom Support portal….
VMware Skyline Advisor – End of Life
Kinda saw this one coming…
While killing Skyline Advisor as a product, the functionality is being moved into the VCF and VVF stacks via Aria Operations 8.18.
Please read, if you use any of the Skyline products.
Broadcom FAQ page is here.
VCDX Global Listing page no longer available
Used to be that you could find a directory of ALL VCDXs.
https://vcdx.vmware.com/
Gone, with Broadcom…..was an easy way to validate folks….
Rene van den Bedem has a post that brought this to my attention.
Omnissa Horizon 8 (2406) released
Quite a few notes to consider, please read.
Release Notes are here.
Aria Operations Manager – the new look
This look like a big refresh on the console, and interactions with it.
Quite a bit here, and will take a bit to digest all this….
VMware Blog post is here.
Aria Operations – configure vCenters for Drift
VMware Aria Operations Eliminates Configuration Drifts for vCenter.
Short VMware Blog post covering how to use this capability.
VMware PowerCLI 13.3 released
update-module -Name VMware.PowerCLI
PowerCLI Release Notes are here.
Nutanix .NEXT – Session now on demand
Nutanix .NEXT 2024 Sessions
Nutanix AOS 6.8 and Veeam issues
This was brought up just recently to the team.
Link to the original Veeam Community post the WEI team shared.
Short answer: wait for the fix before upgrading to AOS 6.8.
Nutanix AOS 6.8.0.5 released.
This might fix the Veeam issue….still need to dive deeper…
Red Hat post reviews Chrony vs ntp.
….Nutanix deprecated the NTP package.
Nutanix Blog post is here.
Nutanix LCM 3.0.1 released
Some fixes, some performance enhancements.
Nutanix post is here.
Nutanix NCC updated to 5.0.1
New hardware support, CVE remediation, and new capability.
Nutanix Blog post is here
Nutanix – deleted a VM and kept the snapshots?
Now its time to cleanup all the orphaned snapsshots you no longer need, right?
How to find them, and then clean them up OR use them to create a VM from it.
Blog Post by Jeroen Tielen is here.
Nutanix Hardware Inventory via CLI
Didn’t know this CLI command existed!
Blog post is here….
Continuing Education – a list of resources that come with references
(of people who have used those sites & are happy with the results).
Free Learning – GitHub Repo
KodeKloud
Nutanix University
Nutanix .NEXT 2024 Sessions
PluralSight
vBrownBag
VMware Hands On Labs
VMware Explore 2024 – August 26-29 (Las Vegas, NV – Venetian Hotel)
VMware Explore 2023 Sessions (William Lam’s easier to search list version)
VMware Explore VMTN Sessions (vBrownBag)
VCDX Mentoring Series