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 1.2X
Let that sink in….
You need to be considering doing this.
Works in vSphere 8 & vSphere 9 (vSphere 9 is only in VCF or VVF).
Part 5 of the NVMe Memory Tiering Blog Post series is here.
Part 6 of the NVMe Memory Tiering Blog Post series is here.
Greenfield, brownfield, and even Nested are discussed (though nested is primarily to verify processes, rather than gain a useful benefit).
Here’s a post from a peer, Danny Alvarez, who beautifully lays outs your 3 options to deal with rising memory prices….
HA is not DR
Have this conversation all the time, for the past 23 years….
Ever since my first DR project in 2004 using ESXi 2 & P2V to recover….
Saying you have a stretched cluster for DR is not correct.
Saying you have a stretched cluster for HA, in case of a datacenter outage, is.
You still need a DR plan.
If your stretched cluster get ransomwared… what then?
Like this post, using VCF as the example….
VCF 9 – Automation if All Apps mode
This is the new way of using VCF Automation.
If you are familiar with any older iteration of VCF Automation, you are familiar with the “legacy” mode that still exists, which is VM centric.
All Apps mode requires VKS, NSX, and VPCs…all which require setup before we can get started with VCF Automation “All Apps” mode.
Daniel Kreiger’s post covers the full deployment (with links to the NSX VPC deployment) or better stated, configuration of VCF Automation from that point.
Building Azure Virtual Desktop Images
Jon Towles spent some time working on AVD (Azure Virtual Desktops) and more importantly the images you use to do the deploy of AVD desktops, and shared his experiences (and scripts!).
Want some help build your AVD images? Just let us know!
Jon’s post is here.
Virtual Mobile Devices (a “nested” phone within a phone)
VMworld in 2011 had discussions focused on “Dual Identity Smartphone”.
This post revisits these thoughts, not from a technical “…can I do this…” but more from a security/political “concerns” that exist in today’s era.
When I went abroad, I took a burner device that I destroyed after my travels.
Funny how that’s exactly the example here as well.
….and of course, it revisits the importance of VDI (for controlling your data).
Tony Foster’s post revisits the need for this in today’s day & age.
(Un)official VMware Stencils for 2026
VirtualG.uk post to the rescue again.
You’d think that VMware could have created Visio stencils in the past 25 years….
Windows Sandbox – VM like capability already on your Windows OS?
I’ve always just fired up a VM in Workstation/Fusion if I ever had this need.
I can see that my team at work does the same thing….
as they were just as surprised when they presented me this post.
HowToGeek post about Windows Sandbox, how to enable, and how to use.
Note that this does require Windows Pro or Enterprise (sorry Home Edition users).
Also worth noting, I did not see this on my Windows 11 ARM running on VMware Fusion with Mac silicone…..guessing there is no Intel-VT on Mac Silicone.
Let’s Encrypt – Certificate for IPs, and 6 day certificate expiry
Well, no secret that certificate lifetimes are shortening .
Especially since we are moving to certificates with a lifespan of
no more than 47 days (by March 2029 – Digicert post is here)
But what surprised me was certificates for IP addresses.
I’m sure there’s a use case out there, beyond the example of homelabs (though I’d figure any homelab needing certificates would use FQND).
Let’s Encrypt post about Certs for IPs and 6 day expiry is here.
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