Yannick Gerber
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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.
2026-05-07 · posts/ms-secure-boot-cert-expiry-2026.md · 525 words · 3 min · yannick-gerber
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).
2025-06-26 · posts/dsm-9-0-mssql-support.md · 442 words · 2 min · yannick-gerber
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.
2025-06-23 · posts/esx-90-nvme-memory-tiering.md · 567 words · 3 min · yannick-gerber
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.
2025-06-23 · posts/vmware-cloud-foundation-90-installer.md · 361 words · 2 min · yannick-gerber
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.
2025-04-01 · posts/vmware-license-changes-2025.md · 332 words · 2 min · yannick-gerber
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.
2025-03-26 · posts/how-to-monitor-vsphere-supervisor-and-guest-clusters-with-aria-operations.md · 298 words · 1 min · yannick-gerber
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.
2025-02-03 · posts/vmware-data-services-manager.md · 508 words · 3 min · yannick-gerber
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.
2024-12-22 · posts/how-to-vsphere-supervisor-services.md · 755 words · 4 min · yannick-gerber
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.
2024-11-26 · posts/vmware-private-ai-foundation-intro.md · 1274 words · 6 min · yannick-gerber
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.
2024-06-19 · posts/how-to-broadcom-support-portal-quick-links.md · 132 words · 1 min · yannick-gerber