Tag: VMware
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How vSAN ESA Global Deduplication in VCF 9 Cuts Storage TCO by 34%?
If you’ve ever run out of storage space in your data center or just paid the bill for another batch of SSDs, you know how costly scaling storage can be. But with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0, a new feature called vSAN ESA Global Deduplication is changing the storage game. And it’s not just a…
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How VCF 9’s NVMe Tiering Lowers Memory TCO by 38% and How It Benefits Customers?
If you’ve ever managed high-performance workloads, you know memory costs can eat up your budget faster than compute or storage. But guess what? With VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0, NVMe Memory Tiering has introduced, and it’s changing how we think about infrastructure design. Let’s break it down in simple terms, and explore how this delivers…
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Big News for VMUG Advantage Members: Free ANS Licenses Are Here!
Hey tech folks! If you’re a VMUG Advantage member (or thinking about becoming one), there’s a seriously cool update you need to know about. You can now get free personal-use licenses for some of VMware’s advanced networking and security tools—yep, totally free—as long as you’re certified. So, if you’ve passed the VCP-VCF exam, this perk…
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What’s New in VMware Cloud Foundation 9: A Unified Leap in Private Cloud Infrastructure
VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9 marks a significant evolution in VMware’s private cloud platform. With this release, VMware delivers on its long-standing vision: a truly unified platform that tightly integrates compute, storage, networking, automation, and operations. This white paper explores the major innovations introduced in VCF 9, including advanced memory tiering, global deduplication, native replication,…
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My Experience with VMware Certified Professional – VMware Cloud 2022 (VCP-VMC 2022) (2V0-33.22)
Thanks for reaching out to my blog. Through this article, I’m sharing my personal experience with “VMware Certified Professional – VMware Cloud 2022 (VCP-VMC 2022),” which I recently passed at the beginning of this year 2023. What influenced me to attempt this exam? Well, while scrolling through the VMware community page in December 2022, I…
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Learn SRM – Part 6 – Install SRA (Storage Replication Adapter)
In this article, we are going to see how to install Storage Replication Adapter(SRA) in our home lab. Make sure that SRA version which you downloaded is compatible with your Storage and SRM. Here in our lab, we are using HP VSA as virtualize storage for array based replication. Please note that HP has not…
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Migrating VMware workload to Cloud
Companies are moving their workload to cloud as it gives you agility, security, reliability and global scale while reducing your overall cost of infrastructure. Today we are going to discuss migration tools which can help to migrate VMware workload from on-premises to cloud. First we will talk about Azure, Azure offers many services out of…
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VMware Certification Path for Beginners to Experts
Four Technology Tracks defined in Four Level in each track starting from Associate to Design Expert, that’s all about the certification roadmap. Sometimes we get confuse that which certification shall I start with? Here is a complete path for you. First you need to choose the technology you are interested in. If you are interested…
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Learn HCX – Topic 5 – Site Pairing and Deploying Fleet Components
Once you deployed HCX manager, configured and activated with Cloud HCX instance then you are ready for site pairing and deploying fleet components. In this topic, we are going to cover Site Pairing and Deploying Fleet Components. You may also refer to below related topics. Related Topics: Learn HCX – Topic 1 – What is…
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Learn HCX – Topic 1 – What is HCX (Hybrid Cloud Extension) ?
Introduction to HCX ( Hybrid Cloud Extension) VMware Hybrid Cloud Extension, commonly known as HCX is a solution for App Mobility and Infrastructure Hybridity Across Any-to-Any vSphere. This is one of strongest migration tool from VMware which can help to migrate workload from on-premises to Cloud(e;g: IBM, AWS). Hybrid Cloud Extension is famous to facilitates…
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VMware Cloud Foundation
- VCF Documentation
- VCF 9 Planning & Preparation Workbook
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About the Author
Dr Pranay Jha
Dr. Pranay Jha is a Cloud and AI Consultant with 18+ years of experience in hybrid cloud, virtualization, and enterprise infrastructure transformation. He specializes in VMware technologies, multi-cloud strategy, and Generative AI solutions. He holds a PhD in Computer Applications with research focused on Cloud and AI, has published multiple research papers, and has been a VMware vExpert since 2016 and a VMUG Community Leader.
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