Capacity Planning

My Inventory Tool for VMware, Proxmox, Hyper-V and Veeam. Part 1: the vSphere side, vCenter, vSAN and NSX

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Seven ESXi hosts, a vSAN cluster, an NSX Manager cluster with two edges, an NSX ALB controller, a vCloud Director cell, a Veeam server, a three-node Proxmox cluster, a three-node Hyper-V failover cluster, two top-of-rack switches, and the iLO and iDRAC boards behind the servers. That is the dummy site in the screenshots, and the … Read more

VCF 9.1 Memory Tiering: Before You Cut the DRAM

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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