VMware Virtualization, Cloud Management, Security & Automation
SDDC Manager has long been the central credential store for VCF environments, providing a single place to manage, rotate, and schedule password changes across your VCF Fleet managed components. One of its most useful capabilities is automatic password rotation. Once configured, it handles the rotation lifecycle without manual intervention, reducing the risk of stale credentials…
If you are running VCF 9.0 You have probably seen this banner… Broadcom has officially announced its deprecating the SDDC Manager UI in future releases, with Day-N workflows moving to the VCF Operations Console as documented on the Broadcom Tech Docs site. The service itself and its API are not going anywhere. Just the UI….
Designing a global private cloud just got a whole lot more flexible. With the release of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0, Broadcom has officially updated the Network Latency thresholds for managing multi-instance fleets, giving architects the freedom to stretch the management plane further than ever before, across continents, without requiring dedicated low-latency fiber. The latest…
In modern virtualised environments, memory often becomes the constraint before CPU does. That problem is more challenging today as memory pricing remains volatile and supply less predictable, driven by AI-focused hardware demand. Expanding DRAM is no longer a simple upgrade decision. It carries real budget, procurement and planning impact. There is also an indirect domino…
If you’re using standard vSwitches, keeping port groups consistent across ESXi hosts can be tedious and error-prone. VLANs are easy to replicate, but port group policies like security, NIC teaming, and traffic shaping are often missed. This PowerCLI function lets you clone standard vSwitch port groups from one host to another, including their associated policies….
Nested Virtualisation has come a long way over the past 15 years. I remember hacking away at VMware Workstation to run ESX 3.5 and then run a guest VM nested on top of that just because I could. Although VMware does not officially support Nested Virtualisation for production use, the capability is native these days….
With the release of vSphere 8, some of you may need a solution for creating a bootable USB installer for ESXi 8 on macOS without using a 3rd party utility. You will be happy to know that my previous blog post Create a Bootable ESXi 7 USB Installer on macOS, still works perfectly. Note this…
Just a quick post on changing the system storage media size for ESXi 7.0 Installation. As of ESXi 7.0, a new partition layout was introduced and the installation can now consume up to 138GB of storage to allow for new features and enhancments to be added in future releases. The partition is auto-sized depending on…
Customising ESXi image profiles is helpful when you need to add custom drivers to your ESXi installation image. I will demonstrate in this post, how to customise ESXi image profiles using the built-in Image Builder service on vCenter 7. I usually use Powershell to build customised ESXi images; however, non-windows users might find this handy…
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