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VMware Explore – registration is openHeading to VMware Explore 2026?Registration is now open.See you there August 31 – September 3, The Venetian, Las Vegas, NV Memory Tiering in vSphere 9 – why aren’t you doing it?With the cost of RAM making us all shudder….Yes, I’ve gone on and on about…
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Nutanix .Next was great!Spent time learning details or 3-tier storage (Pure Storage (fine, Everpure), Dell PowerFlex, & Dell PowerStore).…while going against the HCI that made Nutanix great, they really made the experience for admins great. VCF Licensing – planning who has access to your LicesnesThis blog post provides one set…
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Planning your Microsoft CAs to support VCFKarl Newick, a peer of mine at work, wrote up a great piece.This is all about planning for the Microsoft Certificate Authority, for VCF use.It’s a bit lengthy, but it is suppose to be.Karl’s Blog post is here. The implementation specifics? Reach out, and…
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What does it take to run VCF 9?How do you get started?…Let’s start the planning, as well as purchase 4 new vSAN ReadyNodes.Why?This long post by me covers the it, and the math behind it.Want to dive deeper?…reach out, be happy to! VCF – Ownership of Fleet, Instance, & DomainsI’ve…
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VCF 9.0.2 releasedEvery component gets a new release.Deployments are still the same.Upgrades?….well, first version most folks will have to upgrade to.(it went smooth for me in the lab).VCF 9.0.2 Release Notes are here. VCF 9 – doing your fist upgrade?VCF 9.0.2 just released.Looking to update your VCF to the current…
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NVMe Memory Tiering ….continued.So noticed the price of RAM went up….In late November, the price for a 64-GB DIMM was X.In mid January, the price for a 64-GB DIMM is now 2.2X.The price of a 3.2-TB NVMe drive ready for Tiering was 1.2XLet that sink in….You need to be considering…
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Happy New Year!!! NVMe Memory Tiering – revisiting againNow, part 4 of the blog post, with first 3 posts linked.Why keep harping on this?Memory is expensive, and one of the most constrained items in the system. vSphere 8 Update 3h releasedStill looks like the latest downloads are 8.0 U3c on…
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