Broadcom’s VCF 9.1 Memory Tiering post, published in May 2026, says enterprise DDR5 RDIMM costs have surged since 2023 and that a high-density virtualization node now costs more than twice as much as it did. I already went through the 2026 memory and flash price numbers in my post vSphere Standard Is Coming Back, and … Read more
This week two things happened on the same day. VMware confirmed it will release an updated vSphere Standard, and Proxmox announced 24/7 enterprise support plus a North American subsidiary. There is no indication that either was a response to the other. Together they say more about the lower end of the virtualization market than almost … Read more
As always, when I run into an issue that takes real troubleshooting before I can fix it, and the result is something others can learn from, I mark it down as a good subject for a blog post. This “NSX Distributed Firewall Memory Exhaustion at Scale” one is very much that case. We had an … Read more
Series: Building Resilient SAP Infrastructure on VCF In Part 1, I laid out the overall architecture: four sites, four layers of high availability, and a separate recovery site built on Veeam and Object First Ootbi. That post was the map. This blog post Building Resilient SAP Infrastructure on VCF — Part 2: Compute and Storage … Read more
Broadcom changed how VCF gets supported and released. Plus, a quick update on what 9.1 has already refined in the licensing model. A few days ago, I wrote about the new licensing model in VCF 9. After that post went out, it was clear that many architects and operators are still working through what these … Read more
Part 1: The Architecture Series: Building Resilient SAP Infrastructure on VCF If you’ve been reading my blog, you know my background is in VMware, virtualization infrastructure, and backup. That is where I have spent most of my career. SAP is not my primary area, and I will not pretend it is. Years ago, though, I … Read more
Migrating ESXi from an SD Card to a Local Disk: My Experience Recently, I was experiencing some issues with one of my ESXis 8.x that I installed on a 25GB SD card. After troubleshooting, I realized the SD card was failing. I had the choice of repairing it (which I had done a couple of … Read more
After a fulfilling journey in the IT and virtualization field, which has presented numerous opportunities to share my knowledge through writing, I have always chosen to wait for the right moment to write a book. That moment has finally arrived. This book reflects my experiences and is a guide to understanding the intricate world of … Read more
In this What is VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery(VCDR) blog post, we will discuss what VCDR is and how it works. This SaaS solution offers optimized costs, accelerated ransomware recovery, and even allows for a 30-minute RPO (recovery point objective) so that you can get back to business quickly. In this blog post, we’ll dive into … Read more
The vCenter crash was initiated by a network storage switch failure that affected all the iSCSI LUNs in my home lab. The failure occurred as a result of changes I made to the switch’s VLAN capacity, which necessitated a reboot. I approved the reboot request without thinking that I had my VMs running. The Switch … Read more
