You might wonder how you can add more NVME Drives on a mainboard as most m2-slots are sparse but we have PCIE-Slots and nice Adapters: But they won’t work easily in any mainboard as these cards bring some PCIe-Lane Divison with them. You see, a NVME is typically bound to 4 CPU-Lanes to leverage those…
Migrate Virtual Machines from Hyper V to VCF 9 with HCX
Something which doesn’t seem to happen so often is the migration of virtual machines from other Hypervisors to VCF. Granted, for some Windows Services like Active-Directory, File-Services or VDI Services you can simply deploy another Windows Server, make it a replica and then decomission your old Server. But even so, there are some other applications…
VCF9 – The new Identity Provider
Within VCF9 we have a new way to leverage Identity & Access Management. While in VCF 5.x and before the Identity Management Appliance was needed to orchestrate Logins to other facilities now we can also leverage the embeeded SSO from our vcenter. Before you choose which identity broker is selected, you need to check the…
vCenter 9 Deployment
Let’s see what has changed in the Deployment process.We’re starting with the vCenter Setup. Requirements as always, preparing vCenter should come with the following preparations: Typcally the GUI-installer is still there but the color changed a little bit 🙂 T-shirt sizes for the deployments are still the same Selection of Datastores in my Homelab but…
Generate the Broadcom Download Token
As announced per Mail this KB mentions that (pretty much starting with VCF 9) all releases are only downloadable by creating a Download Token. https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article/390098 First login to support.broadcom.com with your user-account that has the entitlements. Within the Dashboard in the lower right corner, there is a bubble called “Quick Links” and there you will…
Broadcom VMware Explore 2024 – Recap
Visiting the Broadcom VMware Explore in Barcelona is always a nice opportunity to get updates, stay in touch with customers,partners old colleagues and deep dive into nice technical sessions or discussions. Best time is when the session cataloug gets filled with Breakout sessions, becase then the real planning starts (depending on how early you got…