As of today, VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 is generally available. In the next weeks I will try to post some blogs about my VCF 9 experience, but first I want to collect and share some of the most interesting links on this page. Announcement (Replay)Broadcom Delivers the Modern Private Cloudhttps://www.thecube.net/events/broadcom/modern-private-cloud Press ReleaseBroadcom Delivers the Modern …
Category: Security
VCF 5.2 – big launch day
After a few months of winter darkness, rain, even storm (over here in Germany) and mostly negative publicity because of the Broadcom acquisition of VMware we can finally see the light at the end of the (SDDC) tunnel. The summer is back and so is VMware – back with a big and shiny monster release! …
TPM chip replacement for VxRail nodes
If TPM 1.2 chips are configured inside one or all VxRail nodes of your cluster you mainly have two choices before the upgrade of your VxRail cluster to Version 8: I always recommend my customers to replace the chips because you never know if you need TPM features in the future. So, just do it …
VxRail Upgrade Guide
After I have written the VxRail Update Guide I wanted to write about major version upgrades as well since there are still some companies out there running VxRail Version 4.7.xxx (which is by now End of General Support). Usually upgrades between major versions are a little bit more complex than updates within the same major …
VxRail update guide
Last week a customer asked me to write a guide he can use to update his VxRail clusters on his own in the future. Because I think this guide could also be useful for others out there I decided to share a more or less generalized version on my blog. // important notes This guide …