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What is VMware Test Drive and Why VMUG Advantage is Great?

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Some of our readers might remember our article about VMUG advantage where we explain the good value and what’s included. The article is here – VMUG is Free, but VMUG Advantage With EVAL Experience is Better for a Reasonable $200/Year. What’s new is the fact that recently an additional feature called VMware Test Drive has […]

VCP6.7-DCV Objective 4.6 – Deploy and configure VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA)

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In this objective, we’ll show you how to set up the main piece of VMware infrastructure – a vCenter server running on Linux Photon OS – VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA). Since several years, VMware is trying to break out from Windows dependency and since 6.5 and now with 6.7 the feature set of VCSA […]

VCP6.7-DCV Objective 4.4 – Set up ESXi hosts

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Hello students and readers. This is our first post covering the new upcoming VCP6.7-DCV Study Guide. It is a work in progress and we’re just started. I hope it will help VMware admins to successfully pass their VCP6.7-DCV 2019 certification. This post’s title is VCP6.7-DCV Objective 4.4 – Set up ESXi hosts and we’ll have a look […]

How To deploy VMware VCSA 6.7 U1 in VMware Workstation

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Hello readers. Today we’ll deploy VMware VCSA 6.7 U1 in VMware Workstation. We have done a similar video for vSphere 6.5 and we had a few questions from readers about accessing the appliance after configuration so we decided to do a new video which details the process. Additionally, we do the deployment in a very […]

VCP-DCV 2019 VMware Certification Exam Officially Announced – Professional vSphere 6.7 Exam 2019

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VMware is announcing a new professional certification VCP-DCV 2019. I’ve already blogged about the new certification changes that VMware is implementing in this blog post – VMware Certification Changes in 2019 and you could see that the passed certification will be named after the year when you met the requirement. Example VCP 6.5-DCV will become VCP 2019 […]

Windows Server 2019 Book in Spanish

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A fellow blogger from Barcelona Xavier Genestos has written another book which will be a good read for Spanish speaking audience. If you are Spanish speaking, person, check it out. The books can be purchased at the LULU publishing. I have met with Xavier during VMworld in Barcelona, together with other Spanish bloggers, Jorge de la Cruz and Frederico Cinalli. […]

How To Create NVMe-Of Target With StarWind VSAN

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NVMe Over Fabric (NVMe-Of) is a protocol which is defacto becoming high-speed standard to take advantage of huge IOPS provided by new NVMe devices hitting the market. NVMe-OF Target designed by StarWind is one of the latest and hot storage technologies overtaking old iSCSI. First of all, before we go further, let’s recap what is […]

How To Test Network Connectivity with netcat utility in VMware environments

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One of the testing tools for VMware networking is netcat. We have a post which explains the basics of vmkping command here – How To Test Network Connectivity with a vmkping command in VMware environments. Check it out. Today’s post is called How To Test Network Connectivity with netcat utility in VMware environments and we’ll explore some […]

What is VMware Per Incident Support?

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VMware Per Incident support is actually the “pay-as-you-go” model, where you’ll choose 1, 3 or 5 incidents per year, and you use those “pre-paid” tickets to call VMware to open a support ticket when needed without buying a support contract itself. You should know, however, that VMware per incident support does not give you free updates like […]