Great review, yet I can't help feeling like I stepped into a 1999 Network Dungen looking at the LED bling server rack in the background. Nostalgic, but missing hand-painted craftmanship. 😀
Hi, Brandon! Could you suggest a good hosting provider for renting a dedicated server with the resources needed to do a VMWare setup, excluding cloud providers? e.g. ESXi, vCenter, vSphere Tanzu setup. Thank you!
Was vSphere actually released this week in that its available for download or was it just announced this week? If so what is the release date? I've been trying to find that but not having any luck on the VMware site. Also I'm curious if they finally dropped support for version 2 Xeons, which would be a bad hit for people who use these in test environments.
Hello there, ESXI 8.0 - I tried to change boot.cfg same with shift + O and command systemMediaSize= min or small is not working, have we here another options or commands for changing VMFSL partition size ? default 120gb seems to be just too much... Thank you
Hi my friend I have a question: I have ubuntu desktop virtualized on vsphere, and everything works, than I attach an nvidia vidocard via passthrough (I want to use it as compute modulke not videocard) and when I turn back on the ubuntu I do not see the screen anymore as if it was used as video card. on the other side I have ubuntu server without desktop working perfectly with nvidia card connected as passthrought. the card is seen as compute module. what can I do in the first case? I would like to use the desktop and at the same use the nvidia as compute module and not as video card..
How is the new Configuration management features different that using host profiles, and host customizations that have been around forever and everyone should already be using?
Matt, thanks for the comment! I have several questions regarding this as well. We will need to wait until we can get our hands on vSphere 8 or see further documentation on the details with this
Proxmox after our vmware subscription ends next year. V7 left a bad taste in my mouth. Especially when they discontinued support for SD cards forcing me to rebuild the hosts.
Angry Bird, definitely! However I would suspect most of the new CPUs will be supported, but definitely a good point to check. I am seeing news blurbs coming out across the Internet today with the vSphere 8 announcement on support for new processors. Note this one from AMD: siliconangle.com/2022/08/30/amds-latest-data-processing-chips-support-vmware-vsphere-8/
I have to add, got my homelab up and running which, I've done since 2007 with ESXi, I've done lots of work that’s got hundreds of production vmware instances up and running. I've come to a dilemma which is a bit worrying, I'm trying to get my vmware ESXi 8 perpetual license for my test lab, and like many many other people can't get a license to rid myself of the 60-day worry. To be fair, I can simply reinstall ESXi every 60 days if it comes down to it, but it's going to be a a chore. Now with all the worry of the hostile (as in no one in VMWare wanted it) takeover, will they just concentrate on enterprise companies? I'm only a contractor myself, but I like testing things before getting things into production, and ESXi has allowed me to do this for over 15 years. I'm happy with my OpenBSD instance and VM's from Linux, FreeBSD to windows for testing and getting the job done. Can you check out the license issues VMWare are currently encountering, I refuse to believe this is technical, they are far too smart to allow this problem to persist for 12 days. I wonder what is going on over there!
First thank you for sharing. We've only had vSphere 7 approved (love "approval processes") and operating for a few months so I haven't messed with image based yet. Can anyone link a good how to video...I can only use the vSphere Cisco custom image to load my hosts (80) and that's only updated once a year. All my systems are "Air Gapped" (no internet access) so wherever this repository of updated images (I'm assuming released/updated with every patch?) that would be good....Update Manager is great...puzzling when they would throw it away.
I agree VUM is a great tool. I always stage my patches first, then I can put half my nodes into maint mode, update them, reboot, and do the other 1/2. Of course not everyone can do 1/2 at a time.
@@VirtualizationHowto Can you explain what you mean by "updating storage controllers, etc.." ? Drivers for things like storage controllers are updated with VUM. Thanks
@@donaldwilliams6821 See my writeup on vLCM here: www.virtualizationhowto.com/2020/06/what-is-vsphere-lifecycle-manager-vlcm/ The new vLCM is a declarative approach to keeping hosts updated. It also adds support for things like storage controller firmware and vendor addons that you can't do with VUM. You can essentially roll all of these things into a single image that can be applied to your hosts. I hope this helps!
Hafiz, thank you for the comment! Can you take a look at William Lam's post here? Have you tried the community networking driver fling by chance? williamlam.com/2022/09/esxi-on-intel-nuc-12-pro-wall-street-canyon.html
