Did you check out the new VMware documentation site? docs.vmware.com Whats your opinion about it?

During my research about best practices of setting up a vROPs environment I found the following document which provides a guideline for a reference vROPs architecture. “The vRealize Operations Manager Reference Architecture Guide provides recommendations for deployment topology, hardware requirements, and …

In this lightboard talk, Patrick Daigle provides an overview of the networking concepts for vSphere Integrated Containers.

This is short video about security and visibility for your containers by using NSX Micro-segmentation. With VMware Integrated Containers, there is no need for a separate infrastructure for containers.

VMware has released vSphere 6.5 U1 Release notes: vsphere-esxi-651-release-notes vsphere-vcenter-server-651-release-notes

I found this awesome blog from Lan Nguyen Senior Consultant working at VMware. On his blog page he provides great vROPs dashboards which are extremely useful for the daily work of an VMware admin like the VM Troubleshooting and the vCenter Overview dashboard.

My current homelab contains 2x HP ML10v2, 1x HP Microserver Gen8 and 2 Switches (1 Mikrotik Cloud Switch 24 Port, Zyxcel 16 Port). This setup was sufficient for a long time. But due to the increased resource requirements of some VMware products and my activities with vROPs, Log Insight and other solutions I require …

VMware has released a new technical white paper about deploying cloud native apps with photon os.

In my role as an onsite GSS Senior TSE at a large VMware customer in Germany I have to collect vROPs log bundles multiple times a week. As this is time consuming manual process I have created a script in my spare-time which fully automates this task. The script triggers the creation of a log bundle using the CASA API, …

VMware has just released a new technical white paper about performance best practices for VMware vSphere 6.5 It covers hardware for use with VMware vSphere, ESXi and Virtual Machines, Guest Operating Systems and Virtual Infrastructure Management. Performance Best Practices for VMware vSphere 6.5