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
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
What the new licensing model actually means for VMware Cloud Foundation and vSphere Foundation, from an architect’s point of view. Before I get into the technical details, I want to be honest about where I stand. I have been a consistent critic of Broadcom’s actions in the VMware ecosystem since the acquisition. The pricing structure, … 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
In this What is VMware HCX, and how does it work, I will provide some simple explanations about HCX, the type of migrations scenarios, and how HCX can help with workloads migrations. VMware HCX (formerly known as Hybrid Cloud Extension and NSX Hybrid Connect) is a massively scalable hypervisor-based supercomputing platform, delivered as an on-demand … Read more
In this error, HCX – Network Uplink Portgroup doesn’t have sufficient free IPs when trying to deploy the Service Mesh, which means there are not enough free IPs in the Network Profiles for the Uplink network. In this case, was for Uplink and also Management Network. How to fix this error? First, we must go … Read more
When creating an HCX Service Mesh, we can get this error, HCX – Unable to Create Service Mesh – NSX-T Only Overlay Transport Zone are supported. This error means you are trying to use a vCenter vDS for your HCX Extended Network profile in the Compute Profile when using an NSX-T in your destination, which is … Read more
In HCX Service Mesh, when we get the error HCX – IX appliance tunnel down – Service Mesh Service Pipeline status is down most of the time regarding the WAN appliance that is not working correctly. We see Service Mesh Appliances with errors and not running. And the IX-WAN appliance is without any service running. … Read more
This year is the 25th VMw anniversary, and it has been a great ride since then. VMware changed the world in the Virtualization area, and in 25 years of VMware what was the impact on your career? VMware, a company founded in 1998, has grown into a leading global enterprise that has revolutionized virtual IT … 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
