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After upgrading my old QNAP TS-453A to a QNAP TS-873 with 8 bays and tons of storage I finally had some time to explore additional storage options for my homelab. Now with 2 pools of storage with total capacity of ~ 35TiB I finally could start to use my NAS much more efficient.

In the previous post Configure QNAP NFS as VMware ESXi Dastastore I showed you how to configure QNAP NFS share as VMware ESXi Datastore.

In this post I will show you how to create a VMware ESXi datastore using iSCSI.

VMware announced VMware vExpert Pro results and I am very proud to announce that I am in. It is a 4th consecutive time in a row when I received this award.

I am very proud about it and very grateful for the recognition from VMware.

Last week VMware announced accounced it’s community awards. I love receiving this email from VMware :)

Congratulations on your vExpert Award!

Hi,

It is with great pleasure that we welcome you to the vExpert program. 
Please be patient, over the next week we will setup your access, software licenses, certificates and vExpert badges. 

We will email you once this is completed.

It has been a while since I wrote about NFS datastores and VMware ESXi. In my previous post How to add NFS export to VMware ESXi 6.5I used NFS server on my host back then. In this post I will show you how you can use QNAP NFS exports with VMware ESXi.

Today I wanted to install a fresh vCenter Server Appliance for further automatic provisioning with Terraform. When I wanted to install the vCenter Server Appliance I faced an error while I tried to mount ISO in Finder and execute the install.

vSphere 7.0 was announced by VMware quite a while ago vSphere 7.0 announcement but only recently I had some time to upgrade my Home Lab to vSphere 7.0.

In this post I will show you the procedure to upgrade ESXi to vSphere 7.0 using esxcli commands.

It is this part of the Year where all the cool people which are in love in VMware products can again apply for a vExpert title. If you didn’t have a chance to do it in November 2019 now is you chance to do it.

At March 10, 2020 | 11:00 AM PDT VMware organized an Online Launch Event.

During this event VMware is launching an incredible new portfolio to support Kubernetes, cloud native architectures and app transformation in your business.

Personally, I think the announcements will be huge. As I am all-in in Public Cloud story I hope this announcements will be huge and will impact customers who still are in Private Cloud world.

Hello VMware vExpert and new vExperts!

Another Year is almost over and again VMware opened vExpert applications. If you contribute to VMware community simply apply and be recognized!

VMworld 2019 EU was finished last week. With great help of William Lam we again have links to almost all VMworld EU 2019 sessions.