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I thought it would be useful to summarise a list of what's new with each new version of vSAN seeing as though it gets updated quite frequently... vSAN 7.0 U3 Cluster Shutdown Feature vLCM support for Witness Appliance Skyline Health Correlation IO Trip Analyzer Nested Fault Domains for 2-Node Clusters Enhanced Stretch Cluster durability Access Based Enumeration for SMB shares via vSAN Files Services See - https://core.vmware.com/blog/vsan-7-update-3-whats-new vSAN 7.0 U2 VMware vSAN HCI Mesh capabilities vSAN Stretched cluster Functionality and Scale Improvements vSAN File Services Interoperability and Scale Improvements vSphere Proactive HA Support vSphere Native Key Provider Health Check History Performance Top Contributors Network Diagnostics See - https://cormachogan.com/2021/03/30/vsan-7-0-u2-whats-new/ vSAN 7.0 U1 vSAN File Services now supports the SMB protocol vSAN File Services now supports Kerberos and Active Directory vSAN File Services Scale Increase Introducing Disaggr

  Took me a little while to find (as it is not listed in the main list of communities) but there is an ESXi on ARM VMware sub community and it can be found here... https://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/vsphere/esxi/esxi-arm-fling

There's been some big news this week about VMware certification involving the release of the new Professional VMware vSphere 7.x exam. So, what does this mean and how does it affect someone wishing to become VCP certified? As there are a number of technology areas you can achieve a VCP certification in, this post is going to look at the 'VCP - Data Center Virtualisation' track. https://www.vmware.com/education-services/certification/vcp-dcv-7-exam.html To start with, back in Feb 2019 VMware changed the naming of the VCP certification to now include the year you passed the exam rather than specifying the version of vSphere that you had studied and were examined on. So last year we had the VCP-DCV 2019 and this year will be the VCP-DCV 2020. If you are already a VCP 2020 then passing this new exam won't gain you anything extra. If, however if you do not currently have a VCP then VMware have dropped the requirement that meant you had to take and pass the Foundations exam.

Here is a great little video from VMware explaining the basics of Kubernetes. As learning about cloud native applications looks to become increasingly important, then any extra help understanding and remembering all the new terms is always helpful. 

Want to become VMware VCP - DCV certified but not sure of the requirements? This is a question I am asked a lot on the Install Configure Manage course I teach so I thought I'd explain what the requirements and the steps are. There are several levels of certification from VMware, VCA, VCP, VCAP and VCDX and there are different certification tracks that you can study - Data Center, Network, Cloud Management & Automation and Desktop & Mobility.  In this post, I am going write about the VMware Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualisation or VCP-DCV as it's written in short. The first thing that we need to know is that the certification you gain now carries the year you became certified rather than the product version, so if you fulfilled the requirements to be a VCP-DCV this year, you would become a VCP-DCV 2020. The steps to become a VCP-DCV 2020 are listed in the Certification section under Education Services on VMware's website... https://www.vmware.com/educat

A new Hands on Lab has just been released from VMware - vSphere 7 with Kubernetes. As always, they are free to do once you have created your VMware HOL account (also free). https://www.vmwarelearningplatform.com/HOL/catalogs/lab/7811

I've been having some fun getting macOS11 (also referred to as macOS 10.16 during install) Big Sur beta 1 running in a VM within VMware Fusion. If you've not met Fusion before, it's VMware's hypervisor for the Apple Mac. It's a really useful tool for a lot of people right now as Apple has given developers access to the first beta code this week and Fusion allows us to test the new release running in a VM. As usual, running unsupported, pre release software sometimes brings up challenges... Downloaded the macOS 11 beta installer from Apple. It's about 10GB so may take a little while. Then I obtained a USB stick (16GB minimum) and formatted it with Disk Utility leaving the default name of Untitled. Then, using Terminal, I ran the following command to create the installer and make the media bootable... sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ 10.15\ Beta.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume