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VCF 9 Day 2 - Commissioning new ESX Hosts
Do you need to horizontally scale up a Workload Domain cluster with additional ESX hosts in your VCF 9 environment? Maybe you need to deploy a new Workload Domain cluster? Before you can do either of those tasks you will need to commission the ESX host into service before you can do anything. Let us take a look how easy that is to do!
Written by Christopher Lewis on February 13, 2026 .
VMware
VCF
Written by Christopher Lewis on February 13, 2026 .
VCF 9 Day 2 - Installing VCF Operations for logs
I’m not sure why VCF Operations for logs is not considered a mandatory component in VCF. In my view it is definitely a critical component because, if nothing else, there is a number of VCF Operations dashboards and features that rely on events from VCF Operations for logs.
Written by Christopher Lewis on February 6, 2026 .
VMware
VCF
Written by Christopher Lewis on February 6, 2026 .
New Homelab - Who dis?
The Top 6 Reasons to Visit the Hands-on Labs @ VMware Explore Barcelona 2023
As a follow up to my previous post
VMware Explore Barcelona 2023 - Top Things to Know Before You Go
, and with just under 2 weeks to go before VMware Explore 2023 Barcelona, here are my top 6 reasons why you should make it your mission to swing on over to the VMware Hands-on Labs area whilst you are at the conference!
Written by Christopher Lewis on October 21, 2023 .
VMware
VMware Explore
Hands-on Labs
HOL
Written by Christopher Lewis on October 21, 2023 .
Top 10 Things to Know Before You Go @ VMware Explore Barcelona 2023
With just under three weeks to go before VMware Explore comes to Barcelona, I thought it was about time I shared some of my top tips for attending any technology conference (with an obvious focus on VMware Explore Barcelona)!
Written by Christopher Lewis on October 18, 2023 .
VMware
VMware Explore
Written by Christopher Lewis on October 18, 2023 .
VMware Aria Automation Advanced Workload Placement using Allocation-based Capacity Metrics
In this post we will look at how and why we would use Advanced Workload Placement using allocation-based capacity metrics. In doing this we will review the basics of workload placement and Demand vs Allocation capacity metrics, look how to enable Advanced Workload Placement in VMware Aria Automation and how we can configure Advanced Workload Placement in Aria Operations to use allocation rather than demand-based metrics.
Written by Christopher Lewis on September 17, 2023 .
VMware
VMware Aria
VMware Aria Operations
VMware Aria Automation
Written by Christopher Lewis on September 17, 2023 .
Multiple Achievements Unlocked!
There have been a few Achievements / Goals Unlocked in the last few months. Let me walk you through them!
Written by Christopher Lewis on July 24, 2019 .
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VMware Cloud on AWS
VMware EMpower
vRealize Operations
Cloud Management
Written by Christopher Lewis on July 24, 2019 .
Upgrading to VMware vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager v2.1
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