Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn VMware Workstation 17.6.1, when I create a Rocky Linux VM, there is no way to enable UEFI firmware from the GUI. Only BIOS is selected and UEFI remain grey out:
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Reading Time: 4 minutesDuring last VMware Explore, brand new VCP certifications have recently been introduced, focusing on the product portfolio. Two are releated to VCF, one is for admins and the other is for architects. VMware VCP – VCF Administrator certification validates the skills required to deploy, manage, and support private cloud environments built on VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). This certification is designed for IT professionals expanding from traditional infrastructure roles to cloud administration. Candidates for this certification includes professionals responsible for implementing and maintaining VCF infrastructure, ensuring it meets organizational service level objectives for availability, performance, and […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn VMware ESXi, I/O filters can gain direct access to the virtual machine I/O path. The I/O filters are independent of the storage topology and is possible to enable the I/O filter for an individual virtual disk level. VMware offers certain categories of I/O filters, in addition, third-party vendors can create the I/O filters. Typically, they are distributed as packages that provide an installer to deploy the filter components on vCenter Server and ESXi host clusters.
Reading Time: 2 minutesMicrosoft Windows Server 2025 has been released in GA on November 1st 2024, and now there is one important 3rd party compatibility announce: Windows Server 2025 is certified on VMware platforms! Starting with November 16, Windows Server 2025 is officially certified on VMware vSphere 7.0 U3, 8.0, 8.0 U1, 8.0 U2, and 8.0 U3. These versions have been tested and validated to provide a stable, high-performance platform for running Windows Server 2025 as a guest operating system on virtual machines. For supported release details, please refer to the Broadcom Compatibility Guide.
Reading Time: 2 minutesVMware Workstation and Fusion are Desktop Hypervisor products used by millions of people every day to run virtual machines on their Windows, Linux and Mac computers for demo, develop, testing and learning purposed. Those products give users the ability to quickly and easily build “local virtual” environments to install other operating systems, learn about technology, build and test software, complex systems, browsers, apps, games, and more. In May 2024, VMware has announced that VMware Workstation and Fusion Pro were free for personal use, but now there is a huge announce: VMware Fusion and Workstation are […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesVMware Explore 2024 Europe (still in Barcelona) has just finished, but what’s news? Let’s start from some obvius things… first more Broadcom (and less VMware maybe) as you can see from the titles of the different press releases. And seems less attendees like the US edition (less than 5000 was an un-official number, that seems very low compared to other edition of this event when was still called VMworld).
Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter VMware acquisition, Broadcom has start to change VMware’s licensing tring to normalize and simplify it, but also tring to maximize the possible revenew. This not not so good for all customers. Also some offering has been dismissed, like the Free vSphere Hypervisor or the basic VMware vSphere Essential bundle. And there was a force shift from a perpetual to subscription model.
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