Tag: vSAN ESA
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VCF 9 Performance Tuning vs Cost Optimization: Where to Spend Your Effort (VCF 9 Series, Part 35)
Performance tuning and cost optimization in VCF 9 pull in opposite directions. Here is which levers help which goal, where they collide, and the order I run them in on real clusters.
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VCF 9 Hardware: The Compatibility Traps That Stall Bring-Up (VCF 9 Series, Part 29)
A field guide to the five hardware traps that stall VCF 9 bring-up: non-certified NVMe, a stale vSAN HCL, sub-25GbE NICs, SD/USB boot media, and under-spec hosts.
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Deploy a VI Workload Domain in VCF 9 with VCF Operations (VCF 9 Series, Part 9)
Deploy a VI workload domain in VCF 9 from the VCF Operations console: commission hosts, choose storage and NSX, and the default-on Supervisor toggle worth turning off.
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VCF 9 Management Domain Bring-Up with the VCF Installer (VCF 9 Series, Part 8)
A step-by-step VCF 9 management domain bring-up with the VCF Installer: depot setup, the live-validated wizard, what gets deployed, and the DNS sweep that prevents most failures.
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vSAN ESA vs OSA in VCF 9: Storage Design and When to Choose Which (VCF 9 Series, Part 6)
vSAN ESA vs OSA in VCF 9: single-tier all-NVMe versus two-tier disk groups, the resilience math, the lowered hardware minimums, and a clear verdict on which to choose.
Architect’s Toolkit
PJ’s Tools
VMware Cloud Foundation
- VCF Documentation
- VCF 9 Planning & Preparation Workbook
- VCF Bill of Materials (BoM)
- VMware Compatibility Guide
- VMware Interoperability Matrix
- VMware Configuration Maximums
- VMware Ports & Protocols
- VMware Hands-on Labs
- RVTools Download
Nutanix
AI & Cloud-Native Platform
- NVIDIA Build (Model Catalog)
- NVIDIA AI Enterprise Reference Architecture
- NVIDIA NIM Performance Benchmarking
- NVIDIA NGC Catalog
- NeMo Microservices Helm Chart
- Helm Charts Repository
- Hugging Face Models
Architecture & Design
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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