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I believe the Next Generation Computing is Software Defined Infrastructure on top of the robust physical infrastructure. You can ask me anything about enterprise infrastructure (virtualization, compute, storage, network) and we can discuss it deeply on this blog. Don't hesitate to contact me.

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Monday, April 28, 2025

The problem with VMware vCenter Server Appliance installation via UI installer

My home lab vSAN ESA on unsupported hardware had some issue impacting vCenter/VCSA virtual machine. The easiest way was to install new VCSA...

Monday, April 14, 2025

Updating ESXi using ESXCLI + Broadcom Tokens

I was blogging about How to update ESXi via CLI back in 2016. John Nicholson recently published blog post how to deal with new Broadcom Tok...

Friday, April 11, 2025

VMware ESXi 8.0 Update 3e Release Notes - VMware ESXi free again?

VMware ESXi 8.0 Update 3e (Build 24674464) was released on 10 April 2025. The release notes are available here . When I went through these r...

Sunday, April 06, 2025

Network throughput and CPU efficiency of FreeBSD 14.2 and Debian 10.2 in VMware - PART 1

I'm long time FreeBSD user (since FreeBSD 2.2.8, 1998) and all these (27) years I lived with the impression that FreeBSD has the best TC...

Sunday, March 30, 2025

Network benchmark (iperf) of 10Gb Data Center Interconnect

I wanted to test 10Gb ethernet link I have got as data center interconnect between two datacenters. I generally do not trust anything I ha...

Thursday, March 20, 2025

VMware PowerCLI (PowerShell) on Linux

VMware PowerCLI is very handy and flexible automation tool allowing automation of almost all VMware features. It is based on Microsoft Power...

Saturday, March 15, 2025

How to update ESXi with unsupported CPU?

I have old unsupported servers in my lab used for ESXi 8.0.3. In such configuration, you cannot update ESXi by default procedure in GUI. vSp...

Friday, February 07, 2025

Broadcom (VMware) Useful Links for Technical Designer and/or Architect

Lot of URLs have been changed after Broadcom acquisition of VMware. That's the reason I have started to document some of useful links f...

Tuesday, February 04, 2025

How my Microsoft Windows OS syncing the time?

This is very short post with the procedure how to check time synchronization of Microsoft Windows OS in VMware virtual machine. There are tw...

Friday, December 20, 2024

CPU cycles required for general storage workload

I recently published a blog post about CPU cycles required for network and VMware vSAN ESA storage workload . I realized it would be nice to...

Wednesday, December 11, 2024

VMware Desktop Products direct download links

UPDATE: Direct links below do not work anymore. They are redirected to https://support.broadcom.com Main URL for all desktop products: https...

VMware Health Analyzer - how to download and register the tool

Are you looking for VMware Health Analyzer? It is not easy to find it so here are links to download and register the tool to get the license...

Monday, December 09, 2024

Every I/O requires CPU Cycles - vSAN ESA is not different

This is the follow-up blog post to my recent blog post about " benchmark results of VMware vSAN ESA ". It is obvious and logical t...

Friday, December 06, 2024

VMware vSAN ESA - storage performance testing

I have just finished my first VMware vSAN ESA Plan, Design, and Implement project and had a chance to test vSAN ESA performance. By the ...

Monday, December 02, 2024

What is the core dump size for ESXi 8.0 U3?

Nine years ago, I wrote the blog " How large is my ESXi core dump partition? ". Back then, it was about core dumps in ESXi 5.5. Ov...

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