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New vCenter Converter Beta

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I know many customers have been asking about the future of vCenter Converter, especially after it was removed back in February for not meeting VMware’s high software standards for security and stability. At the end of the blog post, it was hinted that a "renewed" version was being worked, however no additional details were provided.


While recovering and catching up from VMware Explore US, I received a surprised email from the vCenter Converter team that they were about to launch a beta for the new version of vCenter Converter! They asked if I could share this awesome news with the community, especially for those interested in participating and looking to influence the future production direction.

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On-Demand session URLs for VMware Explore US 2022

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VMware Explore US has just concluded earlier this week and the VMware Explore team has been hard at work in publishing recorded sessions (those that were allowed to be recorded) into the VMware Explore On-Demand Video Library, which only requires a free VMware Explore account to watch all the amazing content from VMware employees, to partners and our community of users.

Similiar to past years, I have put together a small Github page that simply summarize all VMware Explore US 2022 breakout sessions by their Category, Session Code, Session Name, on-demand URL link and Session Speakers. This should make it very easier to search for a specific session, topic or speaker and jump straight to the VMware Explore on-demand link, which will require a VMware Explore account to view the session. There are no offline viewing options, you must login to view the content from the VMware Explore site.

As of 12pm PST, 410 out of 458 sessions have been posted online. I will check back next week and update the repo if the additional sessions recordings will be published.


You can access the repo by visiting: https://github.com/lamw/vmware-explore-2022-session-urls (short URL: https://vmwa.re/vmware-explore-2022)

How to manually clean up a Distributed Virtual Switch (VDS) on an ESXi host?

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If an ESXi host was connected to a Distributed Virtual Switch (DVS) and you were not able to properly remove it from the vCenter inventory, which cleans up the VDS as part of the removal, then you will be left with a stale VDS configuration.


Of course, the ideal workflow is to clean this up within vCenter Server but if you some how lost access or the vCenter Server was deleted and you might be wondering how to manually clean this up?

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