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Your VCF Upgrade: What to Keep, What to…
Your VCF Upgrade: What to Keep, What to Replace, and Where to Start Your VCF Upgrade: What to Keep, What to… Moving to VMware Cloud Foundation doesn’t have to mean starting from scratch. But how do you decide what to keep, what to retire, and where to begin? Recorded at VMware Explore 2026, Pete Flecha…
Architecting Governed Agentic AI: The Broadcom…
Autonomous AI agents are transforming enterprise workflows, but they bring a new set of security challenges that traditional controls weren’t designed to solve. Unlike conventional apps, agents can discover tools, delegate tasks, and trigger workflows independently. Securing them requires more than just model guardrails or static API scopes—it requires a dedicated runtime control plane. Our…
Modern Automation with VMware Cloud Foundation…
Modern Automation with VMware Cloud Foundation Part 1: Push-Button Infrastructure Provisioning Modern Automation with VMware Cloud Foundation… In a former life, I successfully automated ESX rollouts, livestock-style in what we’d call a “vSphere only” environment. The project was to automate the process of ESX bare-metal host provisioning: storage zoning, bare metal installation, ESX configuration, vCenter…
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VMware SRM Upgrade from 8.7 to 9.0.1 Known Issues:
In this blog post, I would like to share the recent SRM 8.7 to 9.0.2 Upgrade experience. VMware Site Recovery Manager Upgrade from 8.7 to 9.0.1. the SRM upgrade completed successfully but the SRM client plug-in for vCenter shows in failed status. We raised the GSS support case. We understand from the support Engineer that…
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Part-2. VMware Data Service Manage (DSM) 2.0 Installation and Configuration
Part-2. The Video Recording covers the following sections of DSM Provider. Installation and Configuration of DSM 2.0 Provider Creation of IP Pools, VM Classes, IT Policies Creation of DSM Admin and DSM User Accounts Launch of DSM Admin Console Integration of MinIO S3 compatible storage Provider repository Enable PostgreSQL Database for Provisioning Provision standalone PostgreSQL…
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Part-1.1. DSM 2.0 Hardware & Software Requirements
DSM 2.0 Supported Versions of vSphere Components Components Supported Versions Center Server 7.0.3i and later ESXi 7.0 and later VMFS 5 and 6 PostgreSQL 12.17, 13.13, 14.10, and 15.5 MySQL 8.0.29, 8.0.31, 8.0.32, 8.0.34 DSM Provider Virtual Machine Configuration Requirements VM Environment Memory CPU Storage Provider VM Default Configuration 16 GB 8 vCPU 736 GB…
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Part-1: VMware Data Service Manager 2.0 Overview
VMware released new version of DSM 2.0.3 on 6th May 2024, there is architectural changes in this release compare to previous version 1.x. detailed changes refer the VMware Data Service Manager release notes 2.0. VMware Data Service Manager provides modern database and data services management for VMware vSphere. DSM Provides a data-as-a-service (DaaS) toolset for…
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Part-4: Horizon 8 Initial Configurations
The previous post (Part-3). I have covered installation of Horizon 8 Replica Server, in this section (Part-4) I will go through the Initial configurations of Horizon 8. Horizon 8 Initial Configurations Before starting the Configurations make sure the following prerequisites are in place. Active Directory Account created with required permission for vCenter Server Integration with…
