What is VMware TestDrive VMware Hands-On Labs (HOL) have been around for quite some time and are well-known within the VMware ecosystem. What many people don’t know is that VMware also offers “fully configured, enterprise grade, and integrated” environments to test and explore VMware’s full suite of products in VMware TestDrive. Where VMware HOL are ...
I started a YouTube channel where I mainly cover VMware NSX-T-related topics. I try to focus on the more foundational topics instead of many of the awesome content already out there on all the cutting edge and more advanced topics. I’m blown away by the number of subscribers, views, and, most importantly, sincere “thank you’s” ...
Truth be told, I’m a bit tired of online virtual events. OK, some events (and especially speakers) nailed it. They managed to bring better user engagement and interaction, but a lot of the online events I attended in the past 18 or so months (or presented at) didn’t do too well in this area. I ...
VMware acquired Avi Networks in the summer of 2019 to add Software-Defined ADC (Application Distribution Controller) capabilities to their Virtual Cloud Network portfolio. That’s a fancy way of saying they bought the most awesome load balancing, WAF and container ingress traffic management solution in the market. VMware rebranded Avi Networks Load Balancer to VMware NSX ...
In my previous video and blogpost, I explained how I set up a fully nested vSphere 7 homelab with NSX-T. In this video tutorial, I’m adding a second VyOS appliance and a second NSX-T Edge Node to my homelab. The video covers setting up the proper Edge Uplink profiles, configuring the Edge Nodes, and finally ...
In my previous video and blogpost, I explained how I set up a fully nested vSphere 7 homelab with NSX-T. Now I want to go back to basics with NSX-T Logical Networking. There is so much exciting content out there on some of the most advanced use cases for NSX-T and last week I realized, ...
In my previous video and blogpost, I explained how I set up a fully nested vSphere 7 homelab in a single box. This new video gives a basic explanation about how I set up NSX-T in a nested homelab: Topics covered in the video Transport Zones Uplink Profiles Transport Node Profiles ESXi Transport Nodes Edge ...
With roughly two weeks to go, VMworld 2020 is just around the corner. The number of sessions available in the catalog is HUGE! If I just look at the number of sessions available with the general (free!) pass … wow! The schedule builder allows you to easily search and filter through the catalog. All sessions ...
Five reasons why I’m looking forward to VMworld 2020 Digital Edition I’m not going to do a big introduction and talk about the pandemic to explain why VMworld 2020 will be a digital online event. If you’re reading this blogpost, I’m guessing you already know: September 29th – October 1st 2020 will go in the ...
