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Certification VMware vSphere

VMware Advanced Design vSphere 7.x study links

Although vSphere 8 is released (GA) at VMware Explore Europe 2022 and modified exams can be expected, the vSphere 7 ones are still current. Also at Explore I took the Advanced Design VMware vSphere 7.x exam and passed it to update my VCDX-DCV certification based on vSphere 6.5 to the Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 2 years ago
VMware VIX
Storage VMware vSphere Windows

vSphere VM quiescing essentials

This week I had several conversations colleagues and suppliers regarding the quiescing options of vSphere based VMs for backup and replication purposes. During these talks I noticed that is it more complex then most would think (including myself). This gave me the idea to write a blog post about the Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 4 years ago
VMware vSAN
Storage VMware vSAN vSphere

Thoughts on vSAN NVMe surprise removal support

While designing a vSAN based platform for a customer lately, I was looking into NVMe based ReadyNodes which needed to run ESXi 6.7 U3. While looking for a specific Dell rackmount config in the VMware Compatibility Guide, something caught my interest. Those were the lines at the bottom of the Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 5 years ago
NSX-T Highlights
Certification NSX VMware vSphere

VMware Advanced Design NSX-T Data Center 3.0 exam review

In January I attended the NSX-T 2.4 Install, Configure and Manager (ICM) course. The course itself was great and gave me thorough knowledge of the product. By attending the course, all pieces of the puzzle fell together and I was impressed with the product so far. Although NSX-T was not Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 5 years ago
Intel SSD
Homelab Storage VMware vSphere

Homelab storage expansion

The SSD tier in my lab became quite full in the beginning of this year, so the search began for some expansion. All 8 hot-swap slots in my single node lab server are occupied so, it needed to be an NVMe drive due to slot availability but mainly because of Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 5 years ago
Security VMware vSphere

Using Equinix SmartKey for VM and vSAN Encryption

Since a while now, customers show an increasingly interest in data-at-rest encryption. vSphere has build-in encryption features since the 6.5 version. I wrote this post to show how Equinix SmartKey can help implementing these encryption features without buying HSM appliances yourself. Since I started working with the SmartKey product, I Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 5 years ago

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