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ESXi Standard Switches (vSS) – The Networking Foundation Every VMware Admin Should Know
If you’ve spent any time working with ESXi hosts, you’ve run into virtual switches whether you realised it or not. The first time you deployed a VM and it just… had network access, that was a vSphere Standard Switch (vSS) doing its job quietly in the background. I want to dig into how these things…
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vSAN ESA in VCF 9.0: Architecture, Storage Pools, and What Changed from OSA
When I first started building vSAN clusters, the storage model was straightforward enough to sketch on a whiteboard in two minutes: cache tier, capacity tier, disk groups, one cache disk per group, capacity disks filling out the rest. That model worked well for a long time. Express Storage Architecture changes most of it, and if…
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Free ESXi is back: ESXi 8.0 Update 3e specs, limits and install
Announced: 10 April 2025, in the ESXi 8.0 Update 3e release notes Broadcom brought back free ESXi on 10 April 2025, and plenty of people still haven’t noticed. There was no press release. Just a single line in the ESXi 8.0 Update 3e release notes. If you’ve been waiting to get back into VMware at…