This post will be all about how I went through the unknown road of ordering VMware Cloud on AWS as a private individual through AWS. First I want to give a huge thanks to Troy Lindsay for helping me massively with all the issues that we came across. Before I get into it, what exactly is this path? Well, simply put, …

Good day readers, This post is all about ideas from the community and readers of my blogs. What would you like to see here? What kind of content? About what products? More homelab and/or IRL related things? More tutorials? And if yes, about what? Anything you’d like to see is welcome. Please let me know your feedback! …

Hi, As the vExpert 2021 Second Half applications open on June 7th and close on July 9th (click here for the latest schedule), I’d like to talk about what a vExpert Pro is and how they can help new applicants with their vExpert application. Members of the vExpert Pro program are there to support new applicants with …

Hi everyone, An urgent post for anyone on vCenter 6.5, 6.7 or 7.0! NOTE: The information below is a snapshot of the VMSA-2021-0010 page, and this page may not be updated anymore after the post. For the latest information, I redirect you to the VMSA-2021-0010 link. UPDATE: VMware just made a blog post with advise, …

Hi everyone, It’s been a while since I have posted here. An update on what has been going on will follow soon, however, this post will be about my experience with the VMC on AWS Guided Hands-On Workshop I took as part of a VMUG. I have to say, overall it went pretty good. This was the first time that they were doing …

Hello reader, For a while I’ve been having an idea for an offering I have not been able to find anywhere. Currently, if you want to pay for VMware Cloud on AWS through a credit card, you have to pay $2000 up-front which expires after 60 days. Not everyone can do this, so this is where this comes in. The idea is that …

Hi everyone, In this post, I want to highlight an issue I had. I wanted to create a VPN Service, connected to a Tier 0 gateway. But none of my tier 0 gateways would show up. I couldn’t find any information on this, not even in the documentation (it’s well hidden and unless you know what to look for, it’s not easily …

Hi everyone, For this post, we’re going to look into all the gear I have in my lab. Note that these are all links and prices that I paid for at the time. Let’s start with compute. I will list a table here of the servers. NOTE: This BoM is outdated and is yet to be updated pending upgrades that I'm saving up for. …

Hi everyone, For those who follow me and sometimes chat with me, you probably know that I am a big fan of VMware TestDrive. I don’t hear a lot about it, but I think it’s something great and very useful. What is VMware TestDrive exactly? To quote them: “With ready-made integrations with some of our most popular …

Hi, In this post, we’ll be talking about setting up a Site Pair and interconnect with HCX, between your on-prem datacenter and your VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC. Video version here. Written version: In this post, we are going to create a Site Pair in HCX and an interconnect. Like the name suggests, a site pair pairs two …