Proud and honored to be awarded as: #vExpert vSphere and vSAN 2024. Thanks to #vExpert program, Corey Romero and each BU to accept my application.🙏

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Happy to announce I was renewed for my th year! I am happy this community still exists and thanks to Corey Romero. Congratulations to all new and renewed!   https://blogs.vmware.com/vexpert/2024/02/22/vexpert-2024-awards-announcement/

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I have been a vExpert member for ten years. VMware vExpert program has affected my career, and now I am a Principal Solutions Architect. During these years, I made many friends in the community and learned different technical skills in the vExpert program. VMware vExpert program is an excellent platform for improving […]

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In this post, I will show how to apply the upgrade patch for vCenter Server 8.0 U2 Preparation Download the VC-8.0u2 patch. Now I will upgrade vCenter Server 8.0 to 8.0 U2. Go to Services menu, make sure all services are running in Healthy. Then go to Update menu, click […]

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In this post, I will show how to apply the upgrade patch for vCenter Server 8.0 U1b. Preparation Download the VC-8.0u1b patch. Now I will upgrade vCenter Server 8.0 to 8.0 U1b. Go to Services menu, make sure all services are running in Healthy. Then go to Update menu, click […]

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VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics (SHD) has transformed to a unified diagnostic utility that brings both proactive and reactive health check and diagnosis for various VMware products like vSphere (ESXi and vCenter), vSAN, VMware Cloud Foundation, VMware Horizon, VMware SD-WAN, with many more on the road map. Skyline Health Diagnostics (SHD) […]

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Model: NUC12WSHi5 Processor type: 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-1240P Memory: G.Skill RipJaws DDR4 SO-DIMM Series 64GB Storage: SAMSUNG 980 SSD 1TB PCle 3.0×4, NVMe M.2 2280 Network: Intel Ethernet Controller I225 Series VMware vSphere Edition: ESXi-8.0b-21203435-standard (VMware, Inc.) Veeam Backup and Replication Edition: 12.0.0.1420 Preparation Download VMware-VMvisor-Installer-8.0b-21203435.x86_64.iso Download VMware-VCSA-all-8.0.0-21457384.iso Download […]

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VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics is a self-service diagnostics platform. It helps to detect and provide remediation to issues in the vSphere and vSAN product line. It provides recommendations in the form of a Knowledge Base article or procedure to remediate issues. It uses the log files of these products to […]

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There are many factors that influence bandwidth requirements for VMware vSphere Replication, e.g, the amount of changed data, the frequency of data changes, and the recovery point objective (RPO) configuration for each replicated virtual machine. vSphere Replication Calculator is a good tool to do an estimation for the on-going bandwidth […]

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I have been a vExpert member for nine years. VMware vExpert program has affected my career, and now I am a Senior Solutions Architect. During the nine years, I made many friends in the community and learned different technical skills in the vExpert program. VMware vExpert program is an excellent […]

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Today I will go though the installation of vCenter Server 8 RC edition, the deployment is similar to vCenter Server 7.0. Execute the vCenter Server 8.0 installer. Next. Accept the license agreement and click Next. Specific the information of target host for vCenter Server deployment, click Next. Yes. Setup the […]

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