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$ soultec get expert/yannick-gerber -o yaml$ soultec get expert/yannick-gerber -o json$ soultec get expert/yannick-gerber -o toml$ soultec get expert/yannick-gerber -o xml$ python3 yannick-gerber.pyPS> ./yannick-gerber.ps1$ go run yannick-gerber.go$ node yannick-gerber.js

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Senior Solution Architect

Yannick Gerber

Yannick is our Master-of-all-Things-Container.

Experience
11 years of IT experience
Languages
DE · EN
  • 7 years IT services provider
Focus Architecture 2.51 Backup and Recovery 2.14 Cloud 1.92 Containers 2.51 Migration 2.82 Network 2.16 Virtualization 1.42
Vendors HPE Microsoft Veeam VMware

Awards

  • Broadcom Knight
  • VMware vExpert

Focus areas

  • Data Center Architecture
  • VMware Cloud Foundation
  • Backup & Recovery
  • Kubernetes & Cloud Native
  • Public Cloud
  • Linux & UNIX
  • Project Management & Delivery

Technologies

Hardware HPE Server & Storage, Lenovo Server, NetApp Storage, Brocade SAN Fabric (FC, FCoE), Infinidat Storage
Networks FortiGate and Sophos Firewalls, Juniper, Cisco, Huawei Switching & Routing, VMware NSX
Virtualization VMware Cloud Foundation
Container & Cloud Native VMware Tanzu, vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS)
Operating Systems Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Backup Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, Veeam Backup for Azure, Veeam Service Provider Console

Further education

  • College of Higher Education, Information Technology (2020 - 2023)
  • Information Technologist, Federal Diploma of Vocational Education and Training, Systems Engineering (2014 - 2018)

Certifications 26 · verified via Credly

Broadcom Partner Certification - Proven Professional - VCF Automation - Architecture 2026
Broadcom Partner Certification - Proven Professional - VCF Automation - Implementation 2026
Broadcom Partner Certification - Proven Professional - VCF Automation - Support 2026
Broadcom Partner Certification - Broadcom Knight - VCF Storage 2026
Broadcom Partner Certification - Certified Expert - VCF Storage - Implementation 2025
Discovery: SecOps Engineer 2024

A selection. 20 further active certifications are not shown.

Project history 3 periods

  1. 2025

    Healthcare

    System Engineer & Solution Architect

    Implementation of a large lifecycle project based on HPE Synergy, ProLiant, VMware vSAN, vROPS.

    Defense

    System Engineer & Solution Architect

    Implementation of air-gapped VCF 9 infrastructure according to NIST (800-171, -53) and DISA STIG requirements.

  2. 2024

    Healthcare

    System Engineer

    Implementation and operational support of container delivery services based on vSphere Kubernetes Service, ArgoCD, Harbor, GitLab.

    Defense

    System Engineer

    Implementation of automation solutions with Ansible for HPE and VMware vSphere infrastructures in a highly regulated environment.

  3. 2023

    Financial Sector

    System Engineer

    Implementation of a datacenter infrastructure based on vSAN Stretched Cluster, implementation of datacenter interconnect, highly available core services (AD DS, MSSQL).

2018 - 2022

Service operations and engineering in a service provider environment, IaaS and PaaS VMware vCloud infrastructure, design and implementation of Veeam backup services.

Posts

Microsoft Secure Boot certificates expire in June 2026

Microsoft is refreshing the Secure Boot certificates originally issued in 2011, so Windows systems keep verifying trusted boot software. The old ones expire in June 2026.

Cloud 1.92 Virtualization 1.42

DSM 9.0 – MS SQL as a Service

VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 brought VMware Data Services Manager (DSM) 9.0 with it. Alongside many improvements, the largest new feature is support for Microsoft SQL Server (tech preview).

Cloud 1.92 Virtualization 1.42

ESX 9.0 NVMe Memory Tiering

The NVMe memory tiering feature in ESX lets local NVMe SSDs be used as RAM, so cheap NVMe devices carry workload memory instead of expensive DRAM.

Cloud 1.92 Virtualization 1.42

VCF and VVF 9.0 Installer – first look

The VMware Cloud Foundation Installer installs a VCF (VMware Cloud Foundation) or VVF (vSphere Foundation) infrastructure. It is the Cloud Builder's successor, and a considerably better one.

Cloud 1.92 Virtualization 1.42

VMware by Broadcom – License Changes

There is a fair amount of misinformation going round about the VMware by Broadcom licence changes, particularly the 72-core minimum. Here is what is actually true.

Strategy 2.87

Monitor vSphere Supervisor and Guest Clusters with VCF Operations

Monitoring vSphere Supervisor Cluster and Kubernetes Guest Cluster with the Kubernetes Management Pack in VCF (Aria) Operations. The Monitoring is a great alternative to prometheus and grafana.

Monitoring 2.44 Containers 2.51

VMware Data Services Manager – DBaaS

VMware Data Services Manager (DSM) provisions databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and MinIO S3 buckets simply, and takes care of their lifecycle, backup, monitoring and alerting.

Cloud 1.92

vSphere Supervisor Services

Supervisor Services run Kubernetes deployments directly on a vSphere namespace, so no Kubernetes guest cluster is needed and the pods run on the ESXi host through the vSphere CRX runtime.

Containers 2.51

VMware Private AI Foundation: we bring the AI to your data

VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA (PAIF-N) lets companies run AI workloads securely and efficiently on their own infrastructure.

Cloud 1.92 Virtualization 1.42

Broadcom Support Portal – Quick Links

A collection of links into the Broadcom Support Portal, so you get to the right product download or the right portal quickly.

Virtualization 1.42 Security 1.91

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Disaster Recovery
Infrastructure 0.61

Engineering
Consulting 0.48

Cloud Strategy

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