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  • Tanzu Community Edition standalone cluster installation completes successfully

    Install Kubernetes in Windows using Tanzu Community Edition

    One of the announcements that I was personally excited about coming from VMworld 2021 is the release of Tanzu Community Edition (TCE). You can read my blog post covering Tanzu Community Edition here. One of the great things you can…

  • What is VMware Skyline Pro

    What is VMware Skyline Advisor Pro?

    VMware has had a product for a while now called VMware Skyline that provides proactive monitoring, analysis, and support for your VMware environment. It monitors your VMware installation and will notify you when issues arise. However, one of the interesting…

  • What is VMware Project Arctic

    What is VMware Project Arctic?

    With the announcements coming from VMworld today, it is obvious that VMware is all about the cloud. There are many announcements coming from that space today as VMware positions itself as a modern cloud company providing the solutions businesses need…

  • VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Community Edition released

    VMware releases Tanzu Kubernetes Community Edition and NVIDIA GPU support

    It is no surprise, this VMworld is all about Tanzu. VMware is edging into the Kubernetes space like never before and is “all-in” on providing a platform to commoditize Kubernetes for the masses. Today VMware has announced VMware Tanzu Community…

  • Use file and block based persistent volumes in vSphere with Tanzu

    VMware vSAN 7 Update 3 New Features

    With the release of VMware vSphere 7 Update 3, this also means there is a new version of vSAN as well. VMware vSAN has been trailblazing in the world of HCI for several years now and with over 30,000 customers…

  • Kingston SSD mounted in drive adapter

    SD Card and USB boot no longer supported in ESXi easy migration to SSD

    Recently there have been a few blogs and KB that have caught my attention. VMware has now deprecated SD Card and USB device support as a standalone boot device. The days of booting your ESXi server from an SD Card…

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    vSphere 7 Update 3 Released with new features

    As VMware has done a few times right before VMworld, they have released a new version of VMware vSphere to the masses – vSphere 7 Update 3. It is the most fully-featured and “cool” vSphere release to date with massive…

  • The vSphere VM is imported in VMware Workstation without issue

    Move a vSphere vSAN ESXi VM to VMware Workstation

    So, in the home lab environment, I had a use case come up for moving one of my DevOps VMs from my VMware vSphere vSAN environment to VMware Workstation for better local interaction on my workstation, using VMware Workstation. VMware…

  • Adding a helm repo and updating the repo contents

    Install Applications in vSphere with Tanzu Kubernetes using Helm

    If you followed along in my VMware vSphere Tanzu Kubernetes Home lab post, hopefully, this helped anyone desiring to stand up vSphere with Tanzu in their home lab environment and start playing around with Kubernetes in vSphere. However, once you…

  • After stopping the Kubernetes services in vCenter Server

    Shut down vSphere with Tanzu

    As with all VMware environments with various solutions layered on top of the core vSphere infrastructure, there is an order of operations. This order of operations also applies to shutdown procedure for the SDDC when you are using vSphere with…