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On-Demand session URLs for VMware Explore Las Vegas 2024

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VMware Explore Las Vegas 2024 officially wraps up today! I thoroughly enjoyed the event and had fantastic conversations with customers, partners and colleague!

The VMware Explore team has already been hard at work in getting all sessions published into the free on-demand catalog, which is available for or EVERYONE to watch, but also new this year, no logins are required! So get your learning on if you missed a session or was not able to attend VMware Explore

As of publishing this blog post, there are around ~18 sessions that have not been published, but I am sure those go up shortly (assuming presenters have approved).

Just like in past years, I have created a summarized list of all on-demand sessions for VMware Explore sessions including the direct link along with presentation links (assuming presenters approved), which you can access at: https://github.com/lamw/vmware-explore-2024-session-urls (short URL: https://vmwa.re/explore-us-2024)


Enjoy! I definitely will catch up on a few recordings once I have had a chance to recover from the long week at Explore 🚶🦶😅

Quick Tip - vCenter Server Advanced Settings Reference

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Simliar to my ESXi Advanced and Kernel Settings reference, I was recently asked about creating one for vCenter Server to capture all the default out of the box advanced settings.

With some automation in place, I deployed all major releases of the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) from 6.7 to 8.0 which is available in this repo: https://github.com/lamw/vc-advanced-settings


For those interested, here is the one-liner PowerCLI code to retrieve all vCenter Server advanced settings:

Get-AdvancedSetting -Entity ($global:DefaultVIServer)

How to upgrade VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) with PVSCSI controller incompatibility?

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If you are running VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) in a lab using Nested ESXi and you attempt an upgrade workflow, you may find the following upgrade pre-check fail with the following message: VSAN SCSI controller is not VMware certified


You might think you are out of luck, but it is actually pretty straight forward to bypass the checks and still allow the upgrade to proceed, something I recently went through myself when upgrading my VCF 5.1.1 environment to the latest 5.2 release.

Note: To use vSAN ESA in VCF, you should configure your Nested ESXi VM to use an NVMe Controller instead of PVSCSI Controller, so its possible that by changing the controller type, you may not run into this error simliar to findings here. You can also override the vSAN HCL JSON with your own custom HCL JSON which includes the PVSCSI controller by following the blog post here and that would also allow you to proceed, but steps below are the easiest as you do not have to do anything special.

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