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After Broadcom completed the acquisition of VMware most of the services hosted on vmware.com domain have been migrated and integrated on broadcom.com domain.

Actually the documentation is still on vmware.com web site, but only for few days.

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In 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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Veeam Backup & Replication has several roles and for some of them you can use a Linux OS to implement specific roles.

Considering that CentOS Linux 7 will reach end of life (EOL) on June 30, 2024 will be really important know which versions and which distributions are supported.

And recently has been released Veeam Backup & Replication 12.3 but with minor changes in the Linux OS support. Note that initially (9 December) there was no official support to RHEL or Rocky Linux 9.5!

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During the last Omnissa Online some interesting news and announces where related to the Horizon platform.

The main pillars of Horizon are: true multi-cloud solution, security and experience and apps everywhere.

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During 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 security. By achieving this certification, professionals demonstrate their ability to effectively operate VCF environments.

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Each big vendor has some kind of “community award” for individuals who have significantly contributed to the community of the specific vendor.

Note that each award is usually annually and related to users contributions over the past 12 months and must be reconfirmed with a candidate submission (almost similar to the submission for new candidates).

Those kinds of “technologies experts” could be book authors, bloggers (in most cases), leaders in some communities, tool builders, and other IT professionals who share their knowledge and passion with others. These people have gone above and beyond their day jobs to share their technical expertise and communicate the value of the specific vendor’s technologies to their colleagues and to the community.

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ProxySQL helps you squeeze the last drop of performance out of your MySQL or PostgreSQL clusters with advanced connection management and flexible routing to scale across thousands of servers. It support for various replication topology: Galera , Group Replication, Aurora.

The Open Source project was started in 2013 and the company was founded in 2014. The company was established to meet the needs of a growing user base and provide dedicated support.

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