Back in May of 2022, Broadcom announced its intention to acquire VMware for a hefty $61B. The process then took a long time to complete. From navigating the acquisition process to overcoming last-minute hurdles in China, Broadcom successfully finalized the acquisition in November 2023. Table [...]

In a recent announcement, VMware by Broadcom has dealt a significant blow to the virtualization community by discontinuing the free version of ESXi hypervisor. Widely regarded as a linchpin for home labs and small to medium enterprises (SMEs), this move has left many users reeling [...]

Quick Bites: Forget complicated storage! Two new options, vVOLs and vSAN, simplify managing your data for virtual machines vVOLs works with your existing storage hardware, giving you finer control over storage for each virtual machine vSAN creates a software-defined storage pool from the local disks [...]

VMware vSphere provides powerful networking capabilities that allow tremendous flexibility in moving packets both within the virtual environment and from virtual to the physical network and physical into the virtual. Perhaps the most important component of the vSphere network infrastructure is the virtual switch or [...]

Quick Bites: The article discusses the comparison between High Availability (HA) and Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) in VMware vSphere HA is a feature that provides automatic restart of virtual machines (VMs) on other hosts in case of host failure, while DRS is a feature that [...]

Quick Bites: Organize and Manage Applications: Group related VMs into a single entity (vApp) for holistic management like deploying, provisioning, and applying resource settings Simplify Application Infrastructure: Manage everything for your application in one place - VMs, dependencies, resource allocation, startup order, IP addressing Easy [...]

Quick Bites: Article explores differences between VMware VMFS and NFS Datastores NFS is a file-level file system, while VMFS is a block-level file system Highlights NFS's history since 1984 and its various versions Discusses VMFS versions, such as VMFS3, VMFS5, and VMFS6 Concludes that both [...]

Quick Bites: Performance: Close, maybe slight edge to iSCSI, especially for high IOPS iSCSI: More complex setup, better load balancing & RDM support, LUN snapshots NFS: Easier to configure, simpler recovery from power failures, size adjustments possible Security: NFS v4.1 has encryption and multipathing. iSCSI [...]

We often talk about backing up and restoring virtual machines that are running on top of VMware vSphere infrastructure ESXi hosts. However, we don’t talk as often about how to actually backup our ESXi host itself or specifically the configuration of that ESXi host as [...]

Introduction As businesses increasingly embrace cloud technologies, the complexity of cloud migration has emerged as a crucial challenge. VMware Cloud, with its robust features and hyperscaler-agnostic approach, stands strong in this evolving landscape, simplifying the migration across diverse cloud environments. This guide explores how VMware [...]