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Quick Tip - Retrieving vSAN File Share Network Permissions using vSAN API & PowerCLI

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Published: October 16, 2024 15:58

When creating a new vSAN File Share, which is powered by vSAN File Services,  additional network access controls (no access, allow access from any IP or custom) can be configured. To view the configured network permissions, users must expand each file…

ESXi on ASUS NUC 14 Performance (Scorpion Canyon)

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Published: October 15, 2024 18:16

In addition to the ASUS NUC 14 Pro (which I recently reviewed), ASUS has also released the ASUS NUC 14 Performance (formally known as Scorpion Canyon) as part of their Intel 14th Generation (Meteor Lake) lineup. Compared to the ASUS NUC 14 Pro and Pro+,…

Quick Tip - SSH Server, Client & Authorized Key Configurations for ESXi 8.0 Update 2 and later

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Published: October 14, 2024 16:04

The general best practice is to disable SSH on your ESXi host by default and if/when you need access, you can turn it on temporarily and disable it when you have completed your task. For users that need to modify the default SSH configurations whether that…

Quick Tip - Using PowerCLI to query VMware Tools Configuration at scale

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Published: October 11, 2024 13:30

One of the most powerful and versatile VM management capability in vSphere is the Guest Operations API, providing a rich set of operations from transferring files to/from the guest to running commands directly on the guest as if you were logged in! An easy…

Updated Dashboard for VMware Community Homelabs using Dashimo

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Published: October 9, 2024 19:32

While working on some data analysis for an internal project, I was looking for a better way to summarize and provide some visualizations of the raw data for better consumption. I also wanted to automate this process, so that I could easily build reports or…

Useful NVMe Tiering reporting using vSphere 8.0 Update 3 APIs

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Published: October 3, 2024 15:57

After successfully enabling the NVMe Tiering feature, which was introduced in vSphere 8.0 Update 3, you can find some useful details about your NVMe Tiering configuration by navigating to a specific ESXi host and under Configure->Hardware and under the…

Quick Tip - Monitoring ESXi remote syslog forwarding

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Published: October 1, 2024 12:15

When an ESXi host is unable to forward its logs to a remote syslog server, a VMkernel Observation (VOB) is automatically raised by the host and it can be used to proactively alert administrators, which has been possible since ESXi 5.0 .... per this blog…

ESXi on ASUS NUC 14 Pro (Revel Canyon)

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Published: September 30, 2024 16:26

The ASUS NUC 14 Pro (formally known as Revel Canyon) is the first ASUS-based NUC since the acquisition of the NUC Division from Intel last fall. I know many of my readers have been requesting a review of the new ASUS NUCs, but to be honest, it has been…

Thank You - Tour de Cure 2024

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Published: September 30, 2024 01:20

Today, I participated in the Tour de Cure 2024 with Team VMware to support the American Diabetes Association (ADA). For Team VMware, we raised a total of $24,080 for this amazing charity and a huge thanks to Paul Turner (VP of Product at VMware) for…

Quick Tip - API for Broadcom Security Advisories

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Published: September 25, 2024 18:02

Broadcom publishes all security advisories within the Broadcom Support Portal (BSP), under Security Advisories on left hand navigation, which will take you to https://support.broadcom.com/group/ecx/security-advisory page. You can also view specific…

How much Virtual Machine memory is using NVMe Tiering?

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Published: September 23, 2024 18:04

I know many in the VMware Community have upgraded to vSphere 8.0 Update 3 to play with the exciting new NVMe Tiering feature, especially for testing various workloads including deploying VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) for homelab or testing purposes. A…

Intel Neural Processing Unit (NPU) with ESXi

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Published: September 16, 2024 17:28

Starting with Intel Meteor Lake (14th Generation) CPUs, now part of the new Intel Core Ultra Processor (Series 1) brand, an integrated Neural Processing Unit or NPU is built right into the SoC (system-on-chip) and is optimized for low power AI Inferencing.…

Quick Tip - NVMe Tiering configured but not working?

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Published: September 14, 2024 00:38

Since publishing my NVMe Tiering in vSphere 8.0 Update 3 is a Homelab game changer blog post, the feedback and responses have been absolutely phenomenal! It will be just a matter of time until we can start using RAID with NVME Tiering ! When it happens, it…