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vSphere UI behavior change for VM Disk I/O Shares & Limits in vSphere 8.x

06.27.2023 by William Lam // 3 Comments

If you use the vSphere UI to configure individual virtual disk I/O shares or limits for a Virtual Machine, it looks like this functionality has been removed in vSphere 8.x in favor of using VM Storage Policies, which has been around for almost a decade now.

Prior to vSphere 8.x, you could configure both disk shares and limits on an individual VMDK as shown in this screenshot below for a vSphere 7.x environment:

While this capability can be useful, it does come with some operational overhead of having to configure each and every virtual disk that has such a requirement and can certainly be error prone. Fortunately, this problem of defining various storage requirements and attributes for a VM and its virtual disks has already been solved with Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM) and the use of VM Storage Policies.

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VMUG Advantage Group Buy is back!

04.18.2023 by William Lam // 4 Comments

With the release of vSphere 8.0 Update 1 yesterday, what better way to enhance your VMware Homelab than getting or renewing your VMUG Advantage!?

🥳 vSphere 8.0 Update 1 is now available! The Release Notes will be up shortly, so be patient

🔸vCenter
📒 https://t.co/KVRx5f2stQ
💿 https://t.co/H7hEnuQYlI

🔹ESXi
📒 https://t.co/ZN0oZ6kBDG
💿 https://t.co/imYObEEOz7 #vSphere80U1

— William Lam (@lamw.bsky.social | @*protected email*) (@lamw) April 18, 2023

... Especially as the annual VMUG Advantage Group Buy is back again! 😀

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Interesting VMware Homelab Kits for 2023

03.08.2023 by William Lam // 33 Comments

Similiar to my post last year on interesting VMware Homelab Kits for 2022, I figured it was time to put together the 2023 edition, especially with some of the kits that I have come to learn about or ones that are planned for release later this year.

The list below is not an exhaustive by any means, but I did try to look for unique kits that folks may not be aware of and/or that include interesting capabilities or designs that would support VMware ESXi without issues and be able to run various other VMware products on top like vSAN, NSX, Aria and Tanzu.

While pricing is just one of the many factors in the hardware decision process, I did limit the scope to the base kit costing sub-$2,000 USD. I also wanted to make sure that the latest ESXi releases will install and run without any issues, which is typically governed by the model of the onboard network adapter. Therefore, any system that requires an additional USB network adapter to install ESXi is automatically excluded from the list. The size and form factor is also just as important and most of the kits below take up very little space or can easily be mobile, if needed.

If there are other new kits that have been released or planned for 2023 that you feel should make the list, be sure to leave a comment below.

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