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[Archive] Extending VMware Cloud on AWS Notifications using the Notification Gateway API williamlam.com/2020/06/exten…

Extending VMware Cloud on AWS Notifications using the Notification Gateway API

The VMware Cloud Notification Gateway (NGW) Service was launched back in May 2019 and is used to communicate important customer-facing notifications which can be delivered across a number of differ…

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[Archive] Quick Tip - vSphere Permission to view vSphere with Tanzu Namespaces williamlam.com/2021/07/quick…

Quick Tip - vSphere Permission to view vSphere with Tanzu Namespaces

If you wish to create a custom vSphere Role that has the ability to view vSphere Namespaces which is part of vSphere with Tanzu, you will need to add the user to the following vSphere Single Sign-O…

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[Archive] Direct playback & download URLs for all VMworld 2019 EU Sessions williamlam.com/2019/11/direc…

Direct playback & download URLs for all VMworld 2019 EU Sessions

VMworld EU 2019 officially wrapped up 45min ago (as of writing this) and this was another amazing VMworld. I really enjoyed all the great conversations from customers, partners and fellow VMware co…

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[Archive] Interesting VMware Homelab Kits for 2023 williamlam.com/2023/03/inter…

Interesting VMware Homelab Kits for 2023

Similiar to my post last year on interesting VMware Homelab Kits for 2022, I figured it was time to put together the 2023 edition, especially with some of the kits that I have come to learn about o…

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[Archive] Will this Arm SoC work with ESXi-Arm? williamlam.com/2023/06/will-…

Will this Arm SoC work with ESXi-Arm?

The number of Arm-based hardware kits has grown significantly in the last couple of years. Today, there are many more options to choose from including different form factors and even hardware from …

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[Archive] Quick Tip - Enabling ESXi Coredumps to be stored on USB williamlam.com/2023/03/quick…

Quick Tip - Enabling ESXi Coredumps to be stored on USB

I was recently working with Engineering to reproduce an issue which causes an ESXi PSOD (Purple Screen of Death) and I wanted the generated ESXi coredump to simply write to the USB device, which I …

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[Archive] Quick Tip - Enabling vCenter Events for NTP (Network Time Protocol) or PTP (Precision Time Protocol) operations williamlam.com/2022/05/quick…

Quick Tip - Enabling vCenter Events for NTP (Network Time Protocol) or PTP (Precision Time Protoc...

Starting with vSphere 7.0 Update 2, you may have noticed a new "Enable monitoring events" setting when configuring time for your ESXi hosts, whether that is using the classic Network Time Protocol …

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[Archive] Quick Tip - Changes to building custom ESXi images in vSphere 8 williamlam.com/2022/11/quick…

Quick Tip - Changes to building custom ESXi images in vSphere 8

Historically, when a new version of ESXi is released, customers will use vSphere Image Builder either through the vSphere Image Builder UI or PowerCLI Image Builder cmdlets to create a custom ESXi …

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[Archive] Quick Tip - HTTPs now supported with wget on ESXi 7.0 williamlam.com/2020/06/quick…

Quick Tip - HTTPs now supported with wget on ESXi 7.0

This morning I needed to install the USB Network Native Driver Fling for ESXi and realized that offline bundles can not be installer over a remote URL. I figure I would download it directly to my E…

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[Archive] NSX-T Edge OVF property to automatically join NSX-T Management Plane williamlam.com/2020/04/nsx-t…

NSX-T Edge OVF property to automatically join NSX-T Management Plane

After publishing my vSphere 7 with Kubernetes automation lab deployment script, I was looking at my NSX-T Edge code which leverages the vSphere VM Keystroke API to automate the joining of the the N…

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[Archive] Quick Tip - Downloading ESXi Image (ISO or ZIP) from vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) williamlam.com/2022/09/quick…

Quick Tip - Downloading ESXi Image (ISO or ZIP) from vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM)

Prior to vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM), the creation of an ESXi Image Profile was done separately using the vSphere Image Builder service. If you needed to download a specific ESXi Image Profile…

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[Archive] Quick Tip - Microsoft Power Automate expression to access specific row from Excel workbook williamlam.com/2021/05/quick…

Quick Tip - Microsoft Power Automate expression to access specific row from Excel workbook

Microsoft Power Automate is a pretty nifty service that allow users to automate various business processes using Microsoft Office 365 as well as supporting other 3rd party integrations. For a parti…

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[Archive] A first look at the new vSphere & vSAN Cloud Service williamlam.com/2022/07/a-fir…

A first look at the new vSphere & vSAN Cloud Service

vSphere and vSAN was just announced this week and if you have not heard the news, I recommend checking out this blog post (includes a nice video with testimonials from early customers and partner…

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[Archive] Quick demo videos of new VMware Cloud with Tanzu services williamlam.com/2021/10/quick…

Quick demo videos of new VMware Cloud with Tanzu services

VMware Cloud with Tanzu services is VMware's new managed Kubernetes offering that incorporates the vSphere with Tanzu technology delivered as a managed service as part of our VMware Cloud service o…

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[Archive] DFI GHF51 - Worlds smallest AMD Ryzen SBC williamlam.com/2022/04/dfi-g…

DFI GHF51 - Worlds smallest AMD Ryzen SBC

Awhile back I came to learn about an interesting AMD single board computer (SBC) from a company called DFI, which specializes in building embedded solutions and industrial motherboards. There are a…

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[Archive] Updated Nested ESXi Appliances for 7.0 Update 1d & 2a williamlam.com/2021/05/updat…

Updated Nested ESXi Appliances for 7.0 Update 1d & 2a

I have just updated my Nested ESXi Virtual Appliance collection to include support for the latest ESXi 7.0 Update 1d and 7.0 Update 2a releases. This took a bit longer than usual due to a busy sche…

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[Archive] Updated findings for passthrough of Intel NUC Integrated Graphics (iGPU) with ESXi williamlam.com/2022/11/updat…

Updated findings for passthrough of Intel NUC Integrated Graphics (iGPU) with ESXi

While searching for drivers for another Intel NUC platform, I saw that Intel had recently published new graphic drivers for Linux including support for their new Intel Arc GPUs. This of course got …

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[Archive] How to modernize your vSphere Alarm actions using the VMware Event Broker Appliance (VEBA)? williamlam.com/2021/07/how-t…

How to modernize your vSphere Alarm actions using the VMware Event Broker Appliance (VEBA)?

The VMware Event Broker Application/Appliance (VEBA) solution makes it extremely easy for customers to build Event-Driven Automation that can react to over 1800 vSphere-based Events using your fav…

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[Archive] VMware Event Broker Appliance (VEBA) v0.5.0 williamlam.com/2020/12/vcent…

VMware Event Broker Appliance (VEBA) v0.5.0

Just in time for the holidays, the VMware Event Broker Appliance (VEBA) team is excited to announce our latest v0.5.0 release, which is also our last planned release of the year. 2020 has been a ve…

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[Archive] Apple NVMe driver for ESXi using new Community NVMe Driver for ESXi Fling  williamlam.com/2021/02/apple…

Apple NVMe driver for ESXi using new Community NVMe Driver for ESXi Fling 

VMware has been making steady progress on enabling both the Apple 2018 Mac Mini 8,1 and the Apple 2019 Mac Pro 7,1 for our customers over the past couple of years. These enablement efforts have had…

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