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   "title": "soulTec | Technology with Passion",
   "summary": "Technology with Passion. We deliver IT services and solutions, and clear your path to a platform that holds."
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   "title": "Careers",
   "summary": "7 open positions at soulTec in Dübendorf."
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   "title": "(Senior) DevOps Engineer / Consultant",
   "summary": "Build the Kubernetes (DevOps) business at a VMware specialist with “soul”, and use your “Tec” experience to create the most innovative Kubernetes services in Switzerland."
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   "title": "(Senior) Omnissa End-User Computing / Digital Workspace Engineer",
   "summary": "Build great Omnissa EUC and digital workspace projects with “soul”, and use your “Tec” experience to add real drive at the no. 1 Omnissa & VMware partner in Switzerland."
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   "title": "(Senior) Software Defined Network Engineer",
   "summary": "Build software-defined networks at a VMware specialist with “soul”, and use your “Tec” experience to keep our customers' operations running smoothly."
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   "route": "/en/careers/vcf-automation-engineer/",
   "kind": "Role",
   "title": "(Senior) VCF Automation & Orchestration Engineer",
   "summary": "Grow the VCF Automation & Operations business at a VMware specialist with “soul”, and use your “Tec” experience to add real drive at the no. 1 Broadcom partner in Switzerland."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/careers/vmware-solution-architect/",
   "kind": "Role",
   "title": "(Senior) VMware Solution Architect",
   "summary": "Grow the VMware by Broadcom business with “soul”, and use your “Tec” experience to add real drive at the no. 1 Broadcom partner in Switzerland."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/careers/vmware-system-engineer/",
   "kind": "Role",
   "title": "(Senior) VMware System Engineer",
   "summary": "Shape modern VMware by Broadcom platforms with “soul”, and use your “Tec” experience to add real drive at the no. 1 Broadcom partner in Switzerland."
  },
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   "route": "/en/company/",
   "kind": "Company",
   "title": "Company",
   "summary": "Who we are, who we work with, and what has happened since we started in 2021."
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   "route": "/en/experts/aldo-gwerder/",
   "kind": "Expert",
   "title": "Aldo Gwerder",
   "summary": "Aldo is one of our infrastructure specialists"
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/experts/christian-schnyder/",
   "kind": "Expert",
   "title": "Christian Schnyder",
   "summary": "Christian is our bundle of experience and master of automation."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/experts/daniel-huber/",
   "kind": "Expert",
   "title": "Daniel Huber",
   "summary": "Daniel is our CFO and makes sure we have everything we need."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/experts/daniel-stadelmann/",
   "kind": "Expert",
   "title": "Daniel Stadelmann",
   "summary": "Daniel is our VMware Cloud and DR expert."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/experts/daniele-nasello/",
   "kind": "Expert",
   "title": "Daniele Nasello",
   "summary": "Daniele is our charming Inside Sales Specialist"
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/experts/dario-doerflinger/",
   "kind": "Expert",
   "title": "Dario Dörflinger",
   "summary": "Dario focuses on SDDC technology and our marketing"
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/experts/dave-kernahan/",
   "kind": "Expert",
   "title": "Dave Kernahan",
   "summary": "Dave is our enterprise IT presales authority."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/experts/fabian-faessler/",
   "kind": "Expert",
   "title": "Fabian Fässler",
   "summary": "Fabian is our all-round Infrastructure Architect"
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/experts/karl-widmer/",
   "kind": "Expert",
   "title": "Karl Widmer",
   "summary": "Karl is our home lab expert and newly minted dad."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/experts/louis-kern/",
   "kind": "Expert",
   "title": "Louis Kern",
   "summary": "Louis brings the “Dev” into “DevOps” for us"
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/experts/marco-betschart/",
   "kind": "Expert",
   "title": "Marco Betschart",
   "summary": "Marco is aiming high, ready to scale the IT summit."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/experts/marco-mattei/",
   "kind": "Expert",
   "title": "Marco Mattei",
   "summary": "Marco is our all-rounder and builds his own keyboards."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/experts/matthias-frech/",
   "kind": "Expert",
   "title": "Matthias Frech",
   "summary": "Matthias is our table tennis and Microsoft expert"
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/experts/matthias-grasmueck/",
   "kind": "Expert",
   "title": "Matthias Grasmück",
   "summary": "Matthias is our “machine” and works tirelessly."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/experts/michael-steg/",
   "kind": "Expert",
   "title": "Michael Steg",
   "summary": "Michael is our VMware evangelist and lives our motto."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/experts/michaela-grueninger/",
   "kind": "Expert",
   "title": "Michaela Grüninger",
   "summary": "Michaela supports our customers with passion."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/experts/mike-schmid/",
   "kind": "Expert",
   "title": "Mike Schmid",
   "summary": "Mike is our internal mentor and, at the same time, a Microsoft authority."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/experts/norbert-hamm/",
   "kind": "Expert",
   "title": "Norbert Hamm",
   "summary": "Norbert is our IBM specialist and Linux expert."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/experts/oliver-erismann/",
   "kind": "Expert",
   "title": "Oliver Erismann",
   "summary": "Oliver has a broad view of desktop virtualization."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/experts/patrick-pletscher/",
   "kind": "Expert",
   "title": "Patrick Pletscher",
   "summary": "Patrick is always on the ball with tenders."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/experts/patrik-rogg/",
   "kind": "Expert",
   "title": "Patrik Rogg",
   "summary": "Patrik is our Operations Manager and captain of the team."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/experts/peter-mattei/",
   "kind": "Expert",
   "title": "Peter Mattei",
   "summary": "Pete is our storage expert, better known as StorePete."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/experts/rebekka-schmid/",
   "kind": "Expert",
   "title": "Rebekka Schmid",
   "summary": "Rebby is our Sales Support expert"
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/experts/rene-gebele/",
   "kind": "Expert",
   "title": "René Gebele",
   "summary": "René is one of our best account managers."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/experts/rene-pfister/",
   "kind": "Expert",
   "title": "Rene Pfister",
   "summary": "Rene is one of our top account managers."
  },
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   "route": "/en/experts/riccardo-quao/",
   "kind": "Expert",
   "title": "Riccardo Quao",
   "summary": "Riccardo has been with us in Inside Sales since September 2026."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/experts/rico-lenherr/",
   "kind": "Expert",
   "title": "Rico Lenherr",
   "summary": "Rico focuses on HPE systems and is our CBO."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/experts/sandra-hinni/",
   "kind": "Expert",
   "title": "Sandra Hinni",
   "summary": "Sandra is our marketing specialist and design expert"
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   "route": "/en/experts/steven-rodenburg/",
   "kind": "Expert",
   "title": "Steven Rodenburg",
   "summary": "Steven is our end-user computing expert and restores classic cars in his spare time."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/experts/tobias-waelti/",
   "kind": "Expert",
   "title": "Tobias Wälti",
   "summary": "Tobias is a container and automation specialist."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/experts/valentina-cicmak/",
   "kind": "Expert",
   "title": "Valentina Cicmak",
   "summary": "Valentina is our upcoming Digital Workplace Expert."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/experts/vendor/hpe/",
   "kind": "Company",
   "title": "HPE Experts",
   "summary": "The HPE Master ASE (Accredited Solutions Expert) is the highest certification on HPE’s technologies. Our engineers and solution architects hold it in several of the areas in which HPE offers it."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/experts/vendor/vmware/",
   "kind": "Company",
   "title": "VMware Experts",
   "summary": "Broadcom Knights are the elite of Broadcom’s partner organisations, honoured for proven expertise in their field. vExpert is the worldwide programme with which VMware recognises, every year, the people who pass their knowledge on: in blog posts, talks and books."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/experts/yannick-gerber/",
   "kind": "Expert",
   "title": "Yannick Gerber",
   "summary": "Yannick is our Master-of-all-Things-Container."
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  {
   "route": "/en/imprint/",
   "kind": "Imprint",
   "title": "Imprint",
   "summary": "Imprint of soulTec AG: company, address, UID and contact."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/alternative-to-vmware-autodeploy-rapid-esxi-deployment-appliance/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Rapid ESXi Deployment Appliance",
   "summary": "When you're thinking about upgrading your infrastructure to the latest stable version of ESXi you have to think about how you will deploy your hosts with the new ESXi Hypervisor."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/announcing-end-of-support-life-for-vsphere-7-0/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "vSphere 7 retires: end of support in October 2025",
   "summary": "It is now definitely time to say goodbye to vSphere 7. Security updates and support end on 2 October 2025."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/antrea-nsx-integration/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Integrating Antrea into NSX",
   "summary": "Registering a Kubernetes cluster running Antrea with the NSX management and central control plane, so groups, policies and trace flows are managed in one place."
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  {
   "route": "/en/insights/automating-vcsa-backup-restore/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Automating VCSA Backup & Restore",
   "summary": "I've recently stumbled upon a VMware communities thread where someone had trouble backing up the VCSA database."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/backing-up-fault-tolerance-protected-vms-the-operation-is-not-supported-on-the-object/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Backing up Fault-Tolerance protected VMs (the operation is not supported on the object)",
   "summary": "How to get rid of the error “the operation is not supported on the object”"
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   "route": "/en/insights/bevorzugter-vmware-pso-partner/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "soulTec becomes Switzerland's preferred PSO partner",
   "summary": "We won the tender and are now the preferred VMware PSO partner in Switzerland for the next two years, just short of a year after founding the company."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/block-specific-notifications-in-windows-10-11/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Block specific Notifications in Windows 10 & 11",
   "summary": "In a VDI environment there is nothing more irritating for a user than getting the same notifications and popups at every logon, none of which interest them."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/breaking-and-fixing-gitlab/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Breaking and Fixing",
   "summary": "Today I realized that my GitLab server was severely out of date and the underlying ubuntu (17.10) was end-of-life."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/broadcom-support-portal/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Broadcom Support Portal Challenge",
   "summary": "The VMware tools moved to the Broadcom portals on 6 May. Since then there has been disillusion and, in places, bewilderment. A lot of accounts are simply empty."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/cannot-power-on-view-vms-after-deleting-resource-pools/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Cannot power on VMs after deleting resource pools",
   "summary": "One of my colleagues had a problem the other night. He was called to troubleshoot a VMware View environment which was not running as expected."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/certified-kubernetes-administrator-cka/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Certified Kubernetes Administrator – CKA",
   "summary": "soulTec has something to celebrate. Three of our engineers passed the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/changing-default-backup-location-for-mssql-database/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Changing default Backup location for MSSQL database",
   "summary": "Just yesterday I upgraded Zerto from 6.0 U2 to 6.5 at a customer site."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/copying-my-scripts-to-github/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Copying my scripts to Github",
   "summary": "I have been blogging for almost 4 years now. After a slow start back in 2014 and some quiet months every now and then I have published quite a lot of powershell code on here over the years."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/customer-success-spezialisierung/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Customer Success specialization",
   "summary": "We are the first VMware partner in Switzerland to hold the VMware Partner-Led Customer Success Specialization, and are now officially a VMware Customer Success Partner."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/distributed-network-security-services/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Distributed Network & Security Services",
   "summary": "Virtualised networks have been running on hypervisor platforms in data centres for more than 20 years. What has changed is what they now have to cover: automation and security together."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/dsm-9-0-mssql-support/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "DSM 9.0 – MS SQL as a Service",
   "summary": "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)."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/esx-90-nvme-memory-tiering/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "ESX 9.0 NVMe Memory Tiering",
   "summary": "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."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/esxi-kickstart-new-ways-to-set-vmotion-fault-tolerance-logging-etc/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "New Ways to set vMotion, fault Tolerance Logging, etc.",
   "summary": "Hello guys! I'm back on my blog after changing my job and generally having been very busy over the last two years."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/exagrid/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "ExaGrid – secure and immutable backup storage",
   "summary": "ExaGrid works exclusively on secure, fast backup storage appliances. The goal is that your backup data is available whenever you need it."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/first-time-vexpert/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "First time vExpert!",
   "summary": "This morning I got a very cool e-Mail: I was accepted as vExpert 2018. This is a great honor for me and I am very excited about it. Becoming a vExpert is actually not that difficult."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/getting-started-with-clarity-ui-from-vmware/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Getting Started with Clarity UI",
   "summary": "As you know when you read my blog, I like to develop and script a lot of things. One things that was always hard for me was the design of the user interface."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/hci-mit-stormagic/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "HCI with StorMagic",
   "summary": "StorMagic SvSAN is a software-defined storage solution that suits small virtualisation environments with two nodes, turning the SSDs, disks and memory of two servers into a virtual SAN."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/health-check-neuer-standard-bei-advanced-settings/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Health check: a new default in the advanced settings",
   "summary": "We run a lot of health checks. One advanced setting changed its default in vSphere 8, and it turned up in our reports as a deviation that was not one."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/homelab-setting-up-a-small-dns-server-for-your-homelab/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Setting up a small DNS server for your Homelab",
   "summary": "Setting up a small DNS server for your home lab  Setting up a small DNS server for your Homelab is actually quite simple."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/how-to-authenticate-with-the-vsphere-supervisor-api/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Authenticate with the vSphere Supervisor API",
   "summary": "Have you always wondered how to log in directly to the vSphere Supervisor API to communicate directly with the Kubernetes API without having to rely on kubectl-vsphere or vcf-cli command line tool?"
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/how-to-broadcom-download-token/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Broadcom Download Token",
   "summary": "From now on your vCenter or SDDC Manager needs a unique token. Without it, from the end of April 2025, no patches for VMware software will download any more."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/how-to-broadcom-support-portal-quick-links/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Broadcom Support Portal – Quick Links",
   "summary": "A collection of links into the Broadcom Support Portal, so you get to the right product download or the right portal quickly."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/how-to-build-a-test-environment-for-opswat-metadefender-managed-file-transfer/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Build a Test Environment for OPSWAT MetaDefender Managed File Transfer",
   "summary": "In this guide, you will build a simple test environment for OPSWAT MetaDefender Managed File Transfer, also known as MFT."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/how-to-build-your-own-homelab-part-1/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Build your own Homelab – Part 1",
   "summary": "In this blog series, I want to take you on the adventures I undertook to build my own nested NSX & Tanzu homelab. This endeavor encountered some issues, as expected from a nested configuration."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/how-to-build-your-own-homelab-part-2/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Build your own Homelab – Part 2",
   "summary": "In this installment, I will walk you through the initial steps of configuring the basic infrastructure required for my nested vSphere homelab with NSX and Tanzu."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/how-to-create-a-password-hash-for-vsphere-configuration-profile/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Create a password hash for vSphere Configuration Profile",
   "summary": "Configuration Profiles have emerged as the modern successor to VMware's legacy Host Profiles, bringing enhanced automation and streamlined management to your vSphere environment."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/how-to-deploy-vsan-snapshot-service-appliance/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "vSAN Snapshot Service Appliance for vSAN Data Protection",
   "summary": "VMware released with vSAN 8 Update 3 the data protection feature which enables based on the tremendous power of ESA's snapshotting engine an all new levels of data protection and agility."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/how-to-disaster-recovery-mit-vmware-live-cyber-recovery/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Disaster recovery with VMware Live Cyber Recovery",
   "summary": "VMware Live Cyber Recovery protects your virtual machines against data loss in a disaster and in a cyber attack, and gets them back quickly."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/how-to-enroll-windows-server-2025-in-omnissa-workspace-one-uem/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Enroll Windows Server 2025 in Omnissa Workspace ONE UEM",
   "summary": "Windows Server is managed through Workspace ONE Intelligent Hub and does not use the standard Windows OMA-DM management channel."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/how-to-enterprise-wipe-vs-device-wipe-vs-unenroll-vs-delete-device-in-workspace-one-uem/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Enterprise Wipe vs. Device Wipe vs. Unenroll vs. Delete Device in Workspace ONE UEM",
   "summary": "Workspace ONE UEM provides several actions for removing management, corporate resources, or data from a device."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/how-to-fix-fix-static-windows-network-settings-reset-after-reboot/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Fix Static Windows Network Settings Reset After Reboot",
   "summary": "If you ended up on this blog, you are probably dealing with the issue that your network settings keep getting lost after a reboot."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/how-to-fix-nsx-to-re-import-esx-into-vcf/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Fix NSX to Re-Import ESX into VCF",
   "summary": "If you stumble upon this blog chances are you are working on VMware Cloud Foundation 9.x."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/how-to-fix-windows-server-internet-access-when-the-default-route-points-to-tself/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Fix Windows Server Internet Access When the Default Route Points to Itself",
   "summary": "A Windows Server can lose internet access even though the network settings look correct."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/how-to-fix-workspace-one-admin-assistant-parsing-failed-macos/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Fix Workspace ONE Admin Assistant Parsing Failures on macOS",
   "summary": "When using Omnissa Workspace ONE Admin Assistant on macOS, parsing can fail even if the application file itself is valid. One possible cause is a missing macOS privacy permission."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/how-to-get-around-your-connection-is-not-private/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "How to get around “your connection is not private”",
   "summary": "This little post is about how to get around the “Your connection is not private” message."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/how-to-get-online-depot-working-in-vcf-9/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Get Online Depot working in VCF 9",
   "summary": "In VMware Cloud Foundation 9 we can configure a Online Depot to get access to the Binaries for the Management as well as the Instance Components."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/how-to-horizon-verbindung-absichern-teil-2/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Securing the Horizon connection – part 2",
   "summary": "Part 1 covered how locked.properties secures the connection between Horizon Connection Servers and clients, mainly through balancedHost. There are cases where that causes trouble."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/how-to-horizon-verbindung-absichern/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Securing the Horizon connection – part 1",
   "summary": "Recent Horizon releases tighten the connections between agents and connection servers. Several of those settings are driven by the locked.properties file."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/how-to-igel-ud-pocket-bios-uefi-settings/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Boot IGEL UD Pocket – Required BIOS/UEFI Settings",
   "summary": "The IGEL UD Pocket allows IGEL OS to run directly from a USB device without replacing the operating system installed on the computer."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/how-to-install-vcenter-without-dns/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Install vCenter without DNS",
   "summary": "A lot of people believe you cannot install vCenter without a DNS server in the environment. Not quite. It is not ideal, but it works."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/how-to-intelligent-hub-macos-not-synchronizing-after-active-directory-user-name-change/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Intelligent Hub on macOS Not Synchronizing After an Active Directory User Name Change",
   "summary": "After changing a user's name in Active Directory, the new information may already be visible in Workspace ONE UEM and Omnissa Access while Intelligent Hub on the Mac still displays the old name."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/how-to-make-sure-your-usb-device-always-gets-passed-through-to-your-vm/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "How To make sure your USB Device always gets passed through to your VM",
   "summary": "A short story about a support request that involved VMware workstation, a Windows XP VM and a custom keyboard for a perfectly good use case."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/how-to-monitor-vsphere-supervisor-and-guest-clusters-with-aria-operations/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Monitor vSphere Supervisor and Guest Clusters with VCF Operations",
   "summary": "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."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/how-to-renew-the-sts-signing-root-certificate-in-vcenter/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Renew the STS Signing Root Certificate in vCenter",
   "summary": "I recently had a call from a customer that received multiple alerts about their ESXi Hosts certificate was about to expire."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/how-to-scality-artesca/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Scality ARTESCA",
   "summary": "ARTESCA from Scality is scalable, secure object storage delivered as a software-defined storage solution."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/how-to-secure-your-dmz-with-a-proxy/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Secure your DMZ with a proxy",
   "summary": "How to secure your DMZ with a proxy. Security is becoming ever more important. Securing the on-premise infrastructure is a top priority for many of our customers and we're here to help."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/how-to-storage-performance-test-mit-vdbench/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Storage performance testing with vdbench",
   "summary": "IOmeter is quick, but its data patterns do not suit a modern storage array. vdbench is the better tool, and this is how to configure it."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/how-to-vcf-ops-for-logs/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "VCF Operations for Logs 9.0",
   "summary": "You upgraded VCF Operations to 9.0, lost the link to VCF Operations for Logs, found there is no upgrade path for it, rebuilt it, and now want the connection back."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/how-to-vlr-9-0-4-bugfix/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "VLR Appliance 9.0.4 – HBR-Agent can't be installed",
   "summary": "You installed VLR Appliance 9.0.4 and it will not install the Host Based Replication Agent for ESX. If you run a vSAN stretched cluster, there is a workaround."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/how-to-vsan-witness-9-0/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "vSAN Witness Appliance 9.0",
   "summary": "You have probably run into the same problem I did: a freshly deployed 9.0 Witness Appliance that ignores its configuration and reports an expired licence."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/how-to-vsphere-supervisor-services/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "vSphere Supervisor Services",
   "summary": "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."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/howto-monitor-cronjobs-with-aria-operations/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Monitor Cronjobs with Aria Operations",
   "summary": "On a professional services project the customer wanted the VMware SRM backup monitored automatically, with a warning raised if the backup job ever failed. Here is how I did it."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/hpe-custom-esxi-image-breaks-pxeboot/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "HPE Custom ESXi Image breaks pxeboot",
   "summary": "With the latest vSphere 6.0 Update 2 May 2016 HPE Custom ESXi Hypervisor Image to download from VMware HPE managed to reference a uppercase letter in one of its configuration files."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/hpe-infosight-fur-server/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "HPE InfoSight for servers",
   "summary": "HPE InfoSight for Servers gives HPE customers a cloud-based platform for analysing, evaluating and monitoring their servers."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/hpe-vm-essentials-part-2/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "HPE VM Essentials – Part 2",
   "summary": "Part 1 covered where VME stood in mid-February. A few weeks on, a fair amount has changed, and we built a three-node VME cluster in our lab."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/hpe-vm-essentials-part1/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "HPE VM Essentials – Part 1",
   "summary": "HPE's own hypervisor, HPE VM Essentials, has been available in Europe since mid-February. Through the Morpheus Data acquisition, HPE has a proven KVM-based hypervisor."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/hybrid-office-und-flexibilitat-am-arbeitsplatz/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Hybrid office and flexibility at work",
   "summary": "I am writing this from my home office, at my corner desk, in front of the large monitor, with a view across the city from the ninth floor."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/iaas-control-plane-api-inaccessible/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "IaaS Control Plane – API inaccessible",
   "summary": "After upgrading the Supervisor cluster of our IaaS Control Plane platform to vSphere 8.0 Update 3, kubectl access to the Kubernetes clusters stopped working."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/iaas-control-plane-wrong-nsx-edge-cluster-for-t1-placement/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "IaaS Control Plane – wrong NSX edge cluster for T1 placement",
   "summary": "After upgrading an IaaS Control Plane environment to vSphere 8.0.3, the T1 SR instances of the vSphere namespaces stopped landing on the edge cluster they were meant to."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/ibm-critical-gaps-in-ibm-spectrum-protect/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Critical gaps in IBM Spectrum Protect",
   "summary": "Critical gaps in IBM Spectrum Protect. There are currently several critical vulnerabilities in IBM Spectrum Protect that you should address immediately. Patches are already available for all gaps."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/icas-fs/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "iTernity iCAS FS",
   "summary": "iCAS FS from iTernity is a software-defined storage solution for secure, reliable, fast and scalable file, object and archive storage."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/infrastructure-assessment-mit-hpe-cloudphysics/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Infrastructure assessment with HPE CloudPhysics",
   "summary": "Replacing your virtual infrastructure and unsure which resources are actually being used, and therefore needed next time round? CloudPhysics ends the guessing."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/introducing-the-new-esxi-staging-appliance/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Introducing the new ESXi Staging Appliance",
   "summary": "A couple of years ago I made a post about the “REDA – Rapid ESXi Deployment Appliance” which was basically a customized version of the old “EDA” which was available to download from the VMware"
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/iscsi-datastore-not-consumed/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "iSCSI Datastore Not Consumed",
   "summary": "On a customer project running current vSphere 8.0 U2, some hosts recognised their iSCSI devices but reported them as “not consumed”, so the ESXi host saw no iSCSI datastores at all."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/iternity-icas-fs/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "The iTernity iCAS FS solution",
   "summary": "Companies face a lot at once in the digital age: exponential data growth, a shortage of IT staff, ransomware, data loss, compliance rules and retention management."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/kostenlos-fur-alle-vmware-fusion-und-workstation/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Free for everyone – VMware Fusion and Workstation",
   "summary": "Homelab enthusiasts, students and commercial users: VMware has made Fusion and Workstation free for everyone."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/lessons-learned-vsphere-with-tanzu-und-nsx-advanced-load-balancer-integration-mit-private-ca/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "vSphere with Tanzu and NSX Advanced Load Balancer with a private CA",
   "summary": "From vSphere 8.0 Update 2 you can deploy vSphere with Tanzu using NSX as the networking stack and NSX Advanced Load Balancer as the integrated L4 load balancer. With a private CA it fails."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/morpheus-cloud-management-plattform/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Morpheus Cloud Management Platform",
   "summary": "As a Morpheus partner with certified specialists on the team, we want to take a moment to show what Morpheus is and how it makes your life in your infrastructure easier."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/moving-vcsapsc-across-data-centers/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Moving VCSA&PSC across data centers",
   "summary": "Today I was at one of our customers that use Zerto as their BC/DR software. The customer is in the process of migrating his workloads into two new data center locations."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/ms-secure-boot-cert-expiry-2026/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Microsoft Secure Boot certificates expire in June 2026",
   "summary": "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."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/msc-cloud-management-and-automation/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "MSC: Cloud Management and Automation",
   "summary": "soulTec AG achieves top VMware certification in cloud management and automation."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/my-solution-to-share-powershell-scripts/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "share powershell scripts on-site",
   "summary": "If you work in the field of VMware you tend to automate things as soon as the opportunity presents itself. Either to save time or to rid yourself of tedious work that repeats itself over and over."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/new-vmware-fling-drs-lens/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "New Fling: DRS Lens",
   "summary": "I have always been a fan of the VMware Flings. There have been some great Flings in the past that eventually made it into VMware's products."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/nsx-free-nsx-ebooks-to-download/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "9 Free NSX eBooks to download",
   "summary": "Last year I was fortunate enough to go to VMworld in Barcelona. One of the coolest “goodies” that I brought back was a small NSX book about automating NSX using PowerNSX."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/nvidia-l40s-horizon-provisioning-error/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "NVIDIA L40s: Horizon cannot provision desktop pools with vGPU profiles",
   "summary": "A customer recently bought several NVIDIA L40s cards to extend their Horizon environment. Provisioning failed for every desktop pool using an L40s vGPU profile."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/partner-technical-leadership-forum/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Partner Technical Leadership Forum",
   "summary": "We are live in Barcelona at VMware Explore 2024, the first VMware Explore since the acquisition by Broadcom was finalised. A lot has changed and a lot has stayed the same."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/powercli-adding-a-disk-to-a-vm/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Adding a disk to a VM",
   "summary": "Recently I stumbled upon a stubborn vSphere Client at a customer. It just would not let me add a disk a VM."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/powercli-assigning-tags-based-on-vm-notes/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Assigning Tags based on VM Notes",
   "summary": "Addressing the problem with not finding VMs based on information in the notes when using the HTML5 client."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/powercli-automating-vm-shutdown-triggered-by-usv/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Automating VM Shutdown triggered by USV",
   "summary": "So another customer had a requirement. They want their USV to trigger a script that moves all VMs from one datacenter to the other datacenter in case of a power failure."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/powercli-automating-vm-skeleton-deployment/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Automating VM Skeleton Deployment",
   "summary": "We recently had to write a script for a customer which would deploy a VM skeleton."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/powercli-automating-vmware-tools-and-hardware-upgrades/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Automating VMware Tools and Hardware Upgrades",
   "summary": "A couple of years ago I struggled with VMware Update Manager in a large environment. The Use case was to update about a 1000 VMs to the latest VMware Tools and VM Version (hardware)."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/powercli-change-admission-control-percentages/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Change Admission Control Percentages",
   "summary": "I was recently asked by a customer to explain some of the vSphere 6.5 features that would be interesting for his environment."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/powercli-checking-esxi-hosts-advanced-settings-against-vmwares-default/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Checking ESXi Hosts Advanced Settings against VMware's default",
   "summary": "Over the years and releases from VMware the best practices change sometimes."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/powercli-find-and-disconnect-cd-drives-on-your-vms/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Find and disconnect CD Drives on your VMs",
   "summary": "One of the things that regularly pops up in our health checks in VMware environments are connected CD Drives that prevent DRS from functioning properly or prevents a host from entering maintenance"
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/powercli-find-differences-between-dns-name-and-vm-display-name/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Find differences between DNS-Name and VM Display-Name",
   "summary": "My boss asked me to create a report which shows all the VMs that have a difference in DNS-hostname and the displayname shown in the client."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/powercli-find-zombie-files-on-datastores/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Find Zombie Files on Datastores",
   "summary": "Everyone who works in our industry is familiar with RVTools. It's a great tool that achieves a lot in short time in terms of infrastructure checks. I would not want to do my job without it."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/powercli-getting-the-usage-of-a-cluster/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Getting the Usage of a cluster",
   "summary": "Our customers sometimes call us in to check their environment. Because this happens quite often we created a basic checklist on what checks we do when we start."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/powercli-moving-vms-into-resource-pools-based-on-a-tag/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Moving VMs into resource pools based on a tag",
   "summary": "A script which automates the assignment of VMs into resource pools based on tags. Has some added functionality to make sure all VMs have tags."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/powercli-releasing-my-vcheck-fork/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Releasing my vCheck Fork",
   "summary": "I have been working on a lot of improvements to the popular PowerCLI HTML Framework script “vCheck Daily Report” which was originally developed by Alan Renouf and has been enhanced by the VMware Code"
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/powercli-report-empty-luns/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Report Empty LUNs",
   "summary": "Once again I'm writing about a customer use-case."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/powercli-reporting-the-duration-of-snapshots/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Reporting the duration of snapshots",
   "summary": "One of our customers had a problem with VMs losing network connectivity while the backup was running. Their backup solution was based on VMware snapshots."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/powercli-setting-resource-pools-right/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Setting Resource Pools right",
   "summary": "I wrote a script to set resource pools right."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/powercli-testing-your-networks/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Testing your networks",
   "summary": "If you are knee-deep in a troubleshooting session with a customer you want to be able to have some tools ready that do some tests for you."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/powershell-script-to-test-multiple-ip-addresses/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "PowerShell Script to test multiple IP Addresses",
   "summary": "This small scriptlet reads a CSV with a column called “IPaddress” and pings its way through the addresses. In a lot of projects I have to confirm that a set of IPs is free."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/problems-with-a-restored-vm-invalid-ids-in-the-snapshot-files/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Problems with a restored VM: Invalid IDs in the Snapshot Files",
   "summary": "Recently we've had the pleasure to restore a Database-VM from the most recent Backup because one of my coworkers accidentally deleted a vital .vmdk File on the datastore.."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/raid-controller/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "RAID controllers",
   "summary": "If you have configured an HPE ProLiant server, you have almost certainly met a Smart Array or SmartRAID controller. Since Gen10 there is another option: the MegaRAID controllers."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/redfishlib-cpp264-in-executeredfishcall/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "redfishlib.cpp:264 :: In executeRedfishCall()",
   "summary": "On a current project we run vSphere Lifecycle Manager together with HPE OneView and HPE OneView for vCenter, so a cluster image can carry the firmware as well."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/securing-your-data-with-veeam-surebackup/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Securing your data with Veeam SureBackup",
   "summary": "How secure is your backup? Have you ever asked yourself if your daily backups really deliver what they promise?"
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/send-workspace-one-hub-notifications/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Send Workspace ONE Hub Notifications to All Users",
   "summary": "In this guide, you will learn how to send a notification to users through Workspace ONE Hub Services."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/setting-up-a-greenfield-vsan-cluster-on-6-5-update-1/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Setting up a greenfield vSAN cluster on 6.5 Update 1",
   "summary": "Recently I had the pleasure of doing a vSAN project for one of our customers. The project scale was very small but nonetheless very interesting."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/sichere-backups-mit-blocky-for-veeam/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Secure backups with Blocky for Veeam",
   "summary": "Backup data is generally treated as the last line of defence, which makes protecting it properly that much more important."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/soultec-14-of-14-solution-competencies/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "14 of 14 solution competencies",
   "summary": "soulTec achieved 14 of 14 VMware solution competencies! We are proud to announce this latest achievement. We have now acquired all VMware solution capabilities that are currently available."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/soultec-achives-second-msc-in-digital-workspace/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "MSC: Digital Workspace",
   "summary": "Digital Workspace characterizes a partner's organizational expertise in developing, deploying and supporting the ongoing management of customer applications, data and virtual desktop solutions."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/soultec-ag-erreicht-hochsten-omnissa-partnerstatus/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "soulTec reaches the highest Omnissa partner status",
   "summary": "We have reached Platinum, the highest partner status in the newly introduced Omnissa partner programme."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/soultec-getting-started-at-our-startup/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Getting started at our StartUp",
   "summary": "The first of November marked a new stage in my career. Together with four good colleagues, I started at soulTec AG."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/soultec-msc-vmware-cloud-on-aws/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "MSC: VMware Cloud on AWS",
   "summary": "The VMware Cloud on AWS Master Services Competency signifies expertise in delivering hybrid cloud solutions based on VMware Cloud on AWS."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/soultec-up-to-50-discount-on-horizon-subscription-licenses/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Up to 50% discount on Horizon Subscription Licenses",
   "summary": "Up to 50% discount on VMware Horizon subscription licenses soulTec offers a discount of up to 50% or more for VMware Horizon License Upgrades to VMware Horizon subscription."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/starting-the-journey-towards-vcdx-dcv/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Starting the journey towards VCDX DCV",
   "summary": "I always wanted to prove the skills that I obtained working for a IT service provider over the last two years."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/storage-performance-test-mit-iometer/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Storage performance testing with IOmeter",
   "summary": "Every successful storage project ends with a storage performance test during system acceptance, checking the array, the storage area network and the hosts."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/success-story-zerto-and-coop-switzerland/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Success Story with Coop Switzerland",
   "summary": "After an open RFP for a BC/DR solution from a well known retail company in switzerland we answered with Zerto and won the RFP. I am proud to share the success story following this project."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/supportende-classic-teams-client-in-vdi/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "End of support for the classic Teams client in VDI",
   "summary": "The classic Teams client in VDI reaches end of support on 30 June 2024. This guide covers installing the new client in a VDI."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/tanzu-12-days-of-kubernetes/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "12 Days of Kubernetes",
   "summary": "Welcome to the 12 Days of Kuberetes. The buzzwords “Docker, Kubernetes, App Modernization, VMware Tanzu, etc.” dominate our everyday IT life."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/tanzu-default-storage-class/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Tanzu default storage class",
   "summary": "I was recently playing with Helm charts on Tanzu Kubernetes clusters and ran into a few problems. Here is a quick tip if you hit something similar."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/tips-and-tricks-for-vsan-troubleshooting/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Tips and Tricks for vSAN troubleshooting",
   "summary": "Today I attended a Web-Session from VMware with the topic vSAN troubleshooting tips and tricks and I wanted to share those tips and tricks with you."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/ubersicht-omnissa-horizon-fur-citrix-kunden/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "An overview of Omnissa Horizon for Citrix customers",
   "summary": "A guide for Citrix administrators who want to understand how Horizon is put together, and how its components map onto a Citrix environment."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/unrecognized-requests-xml-api/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Unrecognized requests in the Horizon Console XML API log",
   "summary": "The Horizon Console dashboard shows a warning about unrecognized requests on the XML API protocol connection. Usually these have no direct effect on user sessions."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/vcdx-journey-progress-report/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Progress report",
   "summary": "Today I want to share an update about my VCDX journey. In the past weeks I have intensified my efforts towards the goal of achieving the VCDX-DCV certification."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/vcf-core-anzahl-ermitteln-fur-vcsp/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Working out the VCF core count for VCSP",
   "summary": "As an existing VMware VCPP partner you now face joining a VCSP partner under a white-label model, unless you can deliver the 3500 cores yourself. We offer that white labelling."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/vcf-full-stack-ab-oktober-2027-mythos-oder-wahrheit/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "VCF full stack from October 2027 – myth or truth?",
   "summary": "A myth that will not go away, and one VMware's competitors are happy to repeat: “from October 2027 a full-stack VCF implementation is mandatory”. It simply is not true."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/vcp5-dcv-exam-preparation-tips/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "VCP5 – DCV: Exam Preparation Tips",
   "summary": "I took the VCP5-DCV for the version 5.5 last week and passed with 491 of 500 possible Points."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/vcsa-ip-change/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "VCSA IP Change",
   "summary": "Have you ever thought about moving your ESXi servers into a different network segment? Reconnecting a host after an IP change can take up to 30 minutes. It does not have to."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/veeam-und-s3-storage-mit-artesca/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Veeam and S3 storage with ARTESCA",
   "summary": "Ransomware attacks have become a persistent nuisance. Beyond securing network, servers and clients, the backup data has to be protected from tampering as the last line of defence."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/vexpert-2019-im-in/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "2019: I'm in!",
   "summary": "Good news! Made it into the program once more. A small thank you post with an outlook of things to come on my blog."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/vmware-aria/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "VMware Aria",
   "summary": "VMware Aria is an intelligent multi-cloud management solution that runs applications, infrastructure and platform services from one platform with a shared data model."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/vmware-automatically-deleting-vmware-vm-snapshots/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Automatically deleting VMware VM snapshots",
   "summary": "Automatically deleting VMware VM snapshots with vRealize Operations Manager (vROPs) is very easy to implement."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/vmware-bootcamp-a-review/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Bootcamp. A Review",
   "summary": "Last week I was attenting my first VMware Bootcamp. The Bootcamp consisted of two courses: “VMware vSphere 5.5 – Fast Track” and “VMware vSphere 5.5 – Optimize and Scale”."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/vmware-cloud-foundation-90-installer/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "VCF and VVF 9.0 Installer – first look",
   "summary": "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."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/vmware-cloud-foundation-how-to-skip-vsan-hcl-checks-for-esxi-upgrades/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "How to skip vSAN HCL Checks for ESXi Upgrades",
   "summary": "A short blog about how one can disable vSAN HCL Checks in VCF SDDC manager."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/vmware-cloud-on-aws/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Cloud on AWS",
   "summary": "VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC on AWS) brings the familiar VMware infrastructure software straight into the AWS cloud."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/vmware-data-services-manager/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "VMware Data Services Manager – DBaaS",
   "summary": "VMware Data Services Manager (DSM) provisions databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and MinIO S3 buckets simply, and takes care of their lifecycle, backup, monitoring and alerting."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/vmware-empower-2019-lisbon/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Lisbon",
   "summary": "In my third week working I was sent to the VMware EMPOWER Partner Conference in Lisbon."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/vmware-explore-2024-barcelona-eine-detaillierte-ruckschau-auf-das-highlight-event-der-it-welt/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "VMware Explore 2024 Barcelona: a detailed look back",
   "summary": "VMware Explore 2024 in Barcelona ran from 4 to 7 November and was one of the largest events in IT infrastructure and cloud technology."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/vmware-explore-2025-las-vegas-soultec-dabei/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "VMware Explore 2025 Las Vegas – soulTec will be there",
   "summary": "VMware Explore, the big cloud event for VMware technologies, goes to Las Vegas in 2025, from 25 to 28 August at the Venetian Convention and Expo Center."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/vmware-explore-las-vegas-hackathon-2025/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "VMware Explore Las Vegas – Hackathon 2025",
   "summary": "The VMware Code Hackathon is a special event that took place during this year's Explore in Las Vegas. Whenever I am allowed to go to an Explore I'm excited if there is a Hackathon."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/vmware-ha-admission-control-cluster-resource-percentage-misconception/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "HA Admission Control Cluster Resource Percentage Misconception",
   "summary": "Today I was working on my VCDX design and came across HA admission control. With VMware vSphere 6.5 a new feature introduced was “Cluster resource percentage”."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/vmware-hackathon-2023-project/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "VMware Hackathon 2023 Project",
   "summary": "The VMware Code Hackathon is a special event that runs alongside VMware Explore. Since 2016, I've been fortunate to participate in both the main event and hackathon most years."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/vmware-hackathon-2024-project/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "VMware Hackathon 2024 Project",
   "summary": "The VMware Code Hackathon is a special event that runs alongside VMware Explore. Since 2016, I've been fortunate to participate in both the main event and hackathon most years."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/vmware-how-to-spell-vmware-like-a-pro/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "How to spell VMware like a Pro",
   "summary": "VMware is our bread and butter. Our IT existence is simply unimaginable without VMware. For this reason, VMware has a high priority within soulTec."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/vmware-license-changes-2025/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "VMware by Broadcom – License Changes",
   "summary": "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."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/vmware-livefire-vro-masterclass/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "vRO Masterclass",
   "summary": "This post is about my experience from this week's VMware Livefire training about vRealize Orchestrator that took place at the VMware offices in Zurich."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/vmware-master-service-competencies/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "VMware Master Services Competencies",
   "summary": "Our small team takes on large things. Within our first year we reached the top and are now among the leading VMware partners in Switzerland."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/vmware-partner-leadership-summit-2023/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "VMware Partner Leadership Summit 2023",
   "summary": "We were invited to this year's VMware Partner Leadership Summit in the USA as one of the core partners in EMEA."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/vmware-private-ai-foundation-intro/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "VMware Private AI Foundation: we bring the AI to your data",
   "summary": "VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA (PAIF-N) lets companies run AI workloads securely and efficiently on their own infrastructure."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/vmware-releases-6-5-update-1/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "vSphere 6.5 Update 1",
   "summary": "A couple of days ago VMware released version 6.5 Update 1 for some of their products: vCenter Server: Link ESXi: Link, Link to HPE Custom Image Site Recovery Manager (SRM): Link I was waiting for"
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/vmware-sddc-livefire-training/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "SDDC LiveFire Training",
   "summary": "This week I was fortunate to be able to attend a LiveFire Class at the VMware UK Headquarters in Staines upon Thames in England."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/vmware-security-advisory-2022-021/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "VMware Security Advisory",
   "summary": "VMware has disclosed new vulnerabilities in VMware Security Advisory 2022-0021. They are rated 4.7 to 9.8 on the CVSS scale."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/vmware-security-advisory-vmsa-2022-0030/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "VMware Security Advisory",
   "summary": "VMware has disclosed new vulnerabilities, covered by VMware Security Advisory 2022-0030 and 2021-0025. They are rated 7.1 to 7.5 on the CVSS scale."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/vmware-security-advisory-vmsa-2024-0012/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "VMware Security Advisory",
   "summary": "VMware has disclosed a new vulnerability, covered by VMware Security Advisory 2024-0012. The issues are rated 7.8 to 9.8 on the CVSS scale."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/vmware-security-advisory/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "VMware Security Advisory",
   "summary": "Broadcom has disclosed a new vulnerability, covered by VMware Security Advisory 2024-0019. The issues are rated 7.5 to 9.8 on the CVSS scale."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/vmware-software-defined-wan/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Software-Defined WAN",
   "summary": "SD-WAN uses software and cloud-based functions to deliver internet connectivity simply, quickly, at good quality and securely."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/vmware-solution-designer/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Solution Designer",
   "summary": "The Solution Designer Fling provides a foundation for managing custom VMware solutions.     What does it do? Building a custom VMware solution involves many challenging tasks."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/vmware-vm-news-collector/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "VM News Collector 1.0",
   "summary": "A new fling to keep up to date On January 4th 2022 VMware has released a new Fling: VM News Collector."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/vmware-vmware-horizon-what-is-new/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "VMware Horizon What's New",
   "summary": "VMware Horizon 2111 – What's new?"
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/vmware-vsphere-update-3-releases-withdrawn/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "vSphere Update 3 releases withdrawn",
   "summary": "VMware has withdrawn all vSphere 7.0 Update 3 releases."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/vmware-workspace-one-uem-cloud-2206/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "VMware Workspace ONE UEM Cloud 2206",
   "summary": "VMware Workspace ONE UEM Cloud 2206 has been available to shared SaaS customers since 26 July 2022, and the rollout for shared SaaS environments is complete."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/vrealize-automation-8-0-first-steps/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "First Steps",
   "summary": "I learn how the newly released vRealize Automation 8.0 works. I am documenting what I learn as I go by doing a Series of blog posts about this. Stay tuned."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/vsan-data-protection/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "vSAN Data Protection",
   "summary": "vSAN 8 Update 3 brought the Data Protection feature, which closes the last gap against conventional block storage. You can now snapshot workloads on production storage directly."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/vsphere-with-tanzu-50-discount/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "vSphere with Tanzu 50% Discount",
   "summary": "Run Kubernetes on the same VMware vSphere infrastructure as your VMs, using vSphere with Tanzu Basic."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/vsphere-with-tanzu-und-nsx-advanced-load-balancer-avi-secret-not-found/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "vSphere with Tanzu and NSX Advanced Load Balancer – avi-secret not found",
   "summary": "An interesting behaviour turned up during a functional test of a vSphere with Tanzu container runtime platform combined with the VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/vvf-9-0-supervisor-mit-foundation-load-balancer/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "VVF 9.0 Supervisor with the Foundation Load Balancer",
   "summary": "The 9.0 release of VMware vSphere Foundation brings new ways to deploy the vSphere Supervisor. One of them is the built-in Foundation Load Balancer."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/wie-du-citrix-hinter-dir-lasst-mit-omnissa-horizon-und-soultec-den-perfekten-umstieg-meistern/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Leaving Citrix behind, with Omnissa Horizon and soulTec",
   "summary": "Wondering how to move off your existing Citrix environment without interrupting operations? More and more of our customers are looking at it because Citrix keeps getting more expensive."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/workspaceone-sicherheitsstandards/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Workspace ONE security standards",
   "summary": "VMware has raised the security standards of Workspace ONE. For military, federal and government bodies, and for insurers and banks, this is an essential requirement of their IT."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/zerto-a-fast-and-awesome-way-to-protect-your-vms/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "a fast and awesome way to protect your vms",
   "summary": "First off: This article is not sponsored by zerto in any way. I got to know zerto in-depth during a PoC we did for one of our customers and I fell in love with it."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/insights/zerto-automating-vpg-journal-limit-changes/",
   "kind": "Post",
   "title": "Automating VPG journal limit changes",
   "summary": "I helped one of our customers implement Zerto in their environment."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/nerd/code/",
   "kind": "Code",
   "title": "Code corpus",
   "summary": "130 published code blocks from 42 posts, 2014–2026. PowerCLI, shell and configuration from real project work."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/privacy/",
   "kind": "Policy",
   "title": "Privacy policy",
   "summary": "Who processes which data on soultec.ch, what for, and what you can do about it. The controller is soulTec AG in Dübendorf."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/services/academy/",
   "kind": "Service",
   "title": "Academy",
   "summary": "Training for your team: official vendor courses with certification, tailored content, and awareness campaigns for the staff."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/services/backup/",
   "kind": "Service",
   "title": "Backup",
   "summary": "Backed up to 3-2-1-1-0, on immutable storage. The backup estate should be the equal of the primary one, and rarely is."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/services/cloud-strategie/",
   "kind": "Service",
   "title": "Cloud Strategy",
   "summary": "A cloud assessment before the migration. Every application gets one of the 6 Rs, and rehost is rarely the right answer for all of them."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/services/cloud/",
   "kind": "Service",
   "title": "Cloud",
   "summary": "The cloud is an experience, not a destination. From strategy through to running, governed operations, we help you get the best possible experience from cloud resources."
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  {
   "route": "/en/services/customer-success-manager/",
   "kind": "Service",
   "title": "Customer Success",
   "summary": "One named contact across the whole lifecycle. Their most frequent contribution is retiring licences you are already paying for."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/services/data-management/",
   "kind": "Service",
   "title": "Data Management",
   "summary": "Software-defined storage against data growth. The real gain is that the next data migration does not happen."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/services/datacenter-lifecycle/",
   "kind": "Service",
   "title": "Datacenter Lifecycle",
   "summary": "Check the state of the infrastructure once or twice a year, validate it against best practice, and implement the recommendations if you want."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/services/digital-workplace/",
   "kind": "Service",
   "title": "Digital Workplace",
   "summary": "Access to applications and data whatever the device or location. The experience has to work for IT and for users, or it gets worked around."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/services/disaster-recovery/",
   "kind": "Service",
   "title": "Disaster Recovery",
   "summary": "RPO and RTO first, technology after. And a plan that has never been tested is a hope."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/services/engineering/",
   "kind": "Service",
   "title": "Engineering",
   "summary": "Design, implementation and operation of your IT infrastructure. Also a full review, or a larger update, when there is no time for it internally."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/services/enterprise-architecture/",
   "kind": "Service",
   "title": "Enterprise Architecture",
   "summary": "Not only how the systems fit together, but stability, availability, sustainability and agility. And the processes behind them."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/services/health-check/",
   "kind": "Service",
   "title": "Health Check",
   "summary": "We analyse your infrastructure with our own tools, sort out the false positives, and hand over a report with a task list."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/services/it-architecture/",
   "kind": "Service",
   "title": "IT Architecture",
   "summary": "Turning requirements and constraints into an infrastructure design that fits the estate you already have. On site, in a co-location, in the cloud, or across several."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/services/it-strategie/",
   "kind": "Service",
   "title": "IT Strategy",
   "summary": "How users want to consume a service, and how fast the business has to deliver, shape what the IT department needs to look like."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/services/linux-container/",
   "kind": "Service",
   "title": "Linux and Containers",
   "summary": "From choosing a distribution through support agreements to automation. And the move from running Linux to running containers."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/services/lizenzmanagement/",
   "kind": "Service",
   "title": "Licence Management",
   "summary": "Inventory, analysis and optimisation of your licences, maintenance contracts and relicensing from our partners' portfolio."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/services/managed-network/",
   "kind": "Service",
   "title": "Managed Network",
   "summary": "Firewall, WLAN, LAN and WAN as an operated service, with application performance assurance, a guarantee over the contract term and a review every quarter."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/services/managed-object-storage/",
   "kind": "Service",
   "title": "Managed Object Storage",
   "summary": "S3 object storage from the cloud, run and monitored by us: scaling, immutable for backups, at locations of your choice, billed by use."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/services/managed-security/",
   "kind": "Service",
   "title": "Managed Security",
   "summary": "Security operations center, SIEM, endpoint detection and response, security validation, mail security, firewall and network as an operated service."
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  {
   "route": "/en/services/managed-service/",
   "kind": "Service",
   "title": "Managed Service",
   "summary": "Hand over operational tasks so your own IT can concentrate on its core work. For solutions we built, across the whole lifecycle."
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  {
   "route": "/en/services/modern-workplace/",
   "kind": "Service",
   "title": "Modern Workplace",
   "summary": "From concept through to lifecycle management. The technology is rarely the problem; keeping an overview is."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/services/monitoring/",
   "kind": "Service",
   "title": "Monitoring",
   "summary": "Every system can raise an alert. The skill is relating them to each other rather than receiving fifty messages for one outage."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/services/network/",
   "kind": "Service",
   "title": "Network",
   "summary": "From the classic campus network to network virtualization. We work with our partners' products and with yours."
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  {
   "route": "/en/services/orchestration-automation/",
   "kind": "Service",
   "title": "Orchestration",
   "summary": "Automation is not only worth it for what runs often. The rare procedure is the error-prone one, because nobody has it in their head any more."
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  {
   "route": "/en/services/remarketing/",
   "kind": "Service",
   "title": "Remarketing",
   "summary": "Buy-back and resale of your hardware, certified data wiping, rental from three months, staging and rollout with IMACD."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/services/requirements-engineering/",
   "kind": "Service",
   "title": "Requirements Engineering",
   "summary": "Reconcile technology with processes and user needs before you buy. Otherwise you buy what demonstrated well and use whatever is left."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/services/security/",
   "kind": "Service",
   "title": "Security",
   "summary": "Cyber threats keep moving. Our security specialists assess how well protected your organisation actually is, and raise that level."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/services/service-desk/",
   "kind": "Service",
   "title": "Service Desk",
   "summary": "One point of contact, run to ITIL, around the clock if you want it, in German, French and English."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/services/service-for-it-provider/",
   "kind": "Service",
   "title": "White Label Services",
   "summary": "For IT providers: our engineers, your customer, your name. Nobody has to know everything; what counts is having the right people alongside."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/services/storage/",
   "kind": "Service",
   "title": "Storage",
   "summary": "Block, hyperconverged or scale-out, depending on what runs on it. The choice is settled by recovery time, not by capacity."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/services/virtualization-container/",
   "kind": "Service",
   "title": "Virtualization",
   "summary": "Server and desktop virtualization, and a route to containers over a platform your team already knows."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/solutions/cohesity/",
   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "Cohesity",
   "summary": "An innovative data management platform"
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/solutions/cyberark/",
   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "CyberArk",
   "summary": "Proactive security"
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/solutions/easylife-365/",
   "kind": "Solution",
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  },
  {
   "route": "/en/solutions/elastic/",
   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "Elastic",
   "summary": "Search, analysis and visualisation of data"
  },
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   "route": "/en/solutions/endpoint-security/",
   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "Endpoint Security",
   "summary": "Devices left the company network faster than they were secured. Two EDR products cover this, plus one layer against ransomware alone."
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  {
   "route": "/en/solutions/endpoint-security/crowdstrike-falcon/",
   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "CrowdStrike Falcon",
   "summary": "Endpoint detection and response from CrowdStrike. A lean sensor on the device, analysis in the cloud, and a platform that grows by module."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/solutions/endpoint-security/halcyon-anti-ransomware/",
   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "Halcyon Anti-Ransomware",
   "summary": "A platform against exactly one class of attack: ransomware. It runs beside the EDR, captures key material, and takes the leverage out of extortion."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/solutions/endpoint-security/microsoft-defender-atp/",
   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "Microsoft Defender",
   "summary": "Endpoint detection and response from the Microsoft stack. If you already have M365 E5, you have usually already licensed it."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/solutions/exagrid/",
   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "ExaGrid",
   "summary": "Backup storage with a landing zone and deduplication"
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/solutions/fortinet/",
   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "Fortinet",
   "summary": "Protection for networks, endpoints and clouds"
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/solutions/hpe/",
   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "HPE",
   "summary": "Datacentre infrastructure from server to storage, bought outright or drawn by consumption through GreenLake."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/solutions/hpe/hpe-data-management/",
   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "HPE Data Management",
   "summary": "File, object and compliant archiving, usually built as software-defined storage on HPE servers with third-party software."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/solutions/hpe/hpe-dhci/",
   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "HPE dHCI",
   "summary": "Servers and storage grow independently and are managed in vCenter, as with HCI. The main gain is updating servers, ESXi and storage together."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/solutions/hpe/hpe-greenlake/",
   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "GreenLake",
   "summary": "Hardware in your own datacentre, billed by what you use. A buffer of capacity sits installed and ready."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/solutions/hpe/hpe-morpheus/",
   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "HPE Morpheus",
   "summary": "A self-service layer across several platforms. Development teams order, operations keeps hold of policy and cost. An HPE product since the Morpheus Data acquisition."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/solutions/hpe/hpe-morpheus/vm-essentials/",
   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "Morpheus VM Essentials",
   "summary": "HPE's own hypervisor with a control plane that runs it beside vSphere. Licensed per socket, on one, three or five year terms."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/solutions/hpe/hpe-private-cloud-ai/",
   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "HPE Private Cloud AI",
   "summary": "A preconfigured AI platform from HPE and NVIDIA, in your own datacentre. Data scientists take tools and models through self-service, and the data stays in the building."
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   "route": "/en/solutions/hpe/hpe-private-cloud-business-edition-pcbe/",
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   "title": "HPE Private Cloud",
   "summary": "dHCI managed from the GreenLake portal, with the Alletra Storage MP B10000 behind it. Close relative of dHCI, different operating model."
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   "route": "/en/solutions/hpe/hpe-server/",
   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "HPE Server",
   "summary": "ProLiant is configurable for virtualization, AI workloads, databases, file servers, data management systems or backup storage. Lifecycle management runs centrally through HPE Compute Ops Manager."
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   "route": "/en/solutions/hpe/hpe-storage/",
   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "HPE Storage",
   "summary": "Primary storage for virtualized estates. The choice is settled by the required availability and recovery time."
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   "route": "/en/solutions/hpe/hpe-zerto/",
   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "HPE Zerto",
   "summary": "Continuous replication rather than a nightly job. Recovery measured in minutes and data loss in seconds, and an HPE product since the acquisition."
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  {
   "route": "/en/solutions/ibm/ibm-power10/",
   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "IBM Power10",
   "summary": "IBM's own server architecture with PowerVM. It runs where AIX, IBM i or a database dictates the platform."
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   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "IGEL",
   "summary": "The endpoint half of the virtual workplace. IGEL fits when the desktop runs somewhere else."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/solutions/igel/igel-app-portal/",
   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "App Portal",
   "summary": "IGEL OS 12 ships with no applications. Everything a person uses arrives from here as a package, and updates without touching the operating system."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/solutions/igel/igel-onboarding-service/",
   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "Onboarding Service",
   "summary": "A device finds its own management server on first boot. Nobody has to configure it, and nobody has to be in the same building as it."
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  {
   "route": "/en/solutions/igel/igel-os/",
   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "IGEL OS",
   "summary": "A read-only Linux as the endpoint operating system. Turns existing hardware into a managed access point and extends how long it stays useful."
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   "route": "/en/solutions/igel/igel-ums/",
   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "Universal Management Suite",
   "summary": "The management server for every IGEL endpoint. Policies, firmware, certificates and apps, applied to one device or ten thousand."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/solutions/iternity/",
   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "iTernity",
   "summary": "Legally compliant archiving as a service"
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/solutions/lenovo/",
   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "Lenovo",
   "summary": "Innovative hardware, software and services"
  },
  {
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   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "Microsoft",
   "summary": "From planning a Microsoft 365 estate through rollout to running it. Most of the effort goes into identity."
  },
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   "route": "/en/solutions/microsoft/easylife-365-collaboration/",
   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "EasyLife 365",
   "summary": "Governance for Microsoft 365. It clears up what appears without rules: teams, groups, mailboxes and guest accounts nobody has an overview of."
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  {
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   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "Microsoft 365",
   "summary": "Mail, collaboration, storage and identity on subscription. Identity is the most often underestimated part."
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   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "Azure",
   "summary": "Microsoft's public cloud, with regions in Switzerland. Usually an addition to your own datacentre, for example as a second site."
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   "route": "/en/solutions/microsoft/microsoft-teams/",
   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "Microsoft Teams",
   "summary": "Collaboration and telephony in one tool. The landline number lands in Teams, and being reachable stops depending on where someone is sitting."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/solutions/omnissa/",
   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "Omnissa",
   "summary": "Desktop virtualization was our subject before the spin-out. Since 2024 the vendor has traded under the name Omnissa."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/solutions/omnissa/citrix-takeout/",
   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "Citrix Takeout",
   "summary": "Broadcom retired the cheap hypervisor for desktops. Moving from Citrix to Horizon gets you vSphere Foundation with the Horizon licence."
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  {
   "route": "/en/solutions/omnissa/horizon/",
   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "Horizon",
   "summary": "Virtual desktops and published applications. Under its own name and its own roadmap since the spin-out from VMware."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/solutions/omnissa/horizon/dynamic-environment-manager/",
   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "Dynamic Environment Manager",
   "summary": "Carries the settings a user cares about instead of the whole profile, so there is less to load and signing in is faster."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/solutions/omnissa/horizon/omnissa-app-volumes/",
   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "App Volumes",
   "summary": "Applications arrive as containers that attach at logon instead of being baked into the image. One master image instead of one per department."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/solutions/omnissa/omnissa-access/",
   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "Omnissa Access",
   "summary": "Identity and access management for applications. Sign in once, and access then depends on the password and on the state of the device."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/solutions/omnissa/workspace-one/",
   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "Workspace ONE",
   "summary": "The device half of the Omnissa portfolio. One console for laptops, phones and tablets, and a dozen products that extend it."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/solutions/omnissa/workspace-one/omnissa-dex/",
   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "Omnissa DEX",
   "summary": "Measures what the workplace is actually like to use: boot times, crashes, logon duration, network quality. Grouped by device model, version or location, it shows common causes."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/solutions/omnissa/workspace-one/workspace-one-uem/",
   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "Workspace ONE UEM",
   "summary": "Device management and access for laptops, phones and tablets. It manages the devices that reach company data, personal ones included."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/solutions/ox-security/",
   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "OX Security",
   "summary": "Application security across code, pipeline and supply chain"
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/solutions/pentera/",
   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "Pentera",
   "summary": "Automated security checks"
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/solutions/qumulo/",
   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "Qumulo",
   "summary": "Clarity in the data jungle"
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/solutions/red-hat/",
   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "Red Hat",
   "summary": "Linux for the enterprise"
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/solutions/scality/",
   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "Scality",
   "summary": "The perfect match for Veeam"
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/solutions/veeam/",
   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "Veeam",
   "summary": "The market leader for backup"
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/solutions/vmware/",
   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "VMware",
   "summary": "Working with VMware since the turn of the century, and more deeply involved in professional services since the Broadcom acquisition than before it."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/solutions/vmware/vmware-cloud-foundation/",
   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "Cloud Foundation",
   "summary": "Compute, storage, network and operations as one product on one lifecycle, instead of four products with four maintenance windows."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/solutions/vmware/vmware-cloud-foundation/nsx/",
   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "VCF Networking",
   "summary": "Networking and firewalling in software, at the virtual port. Segmentation is set per VM."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/solutions/vmware/vmware-cloud-foundation/vcf-automation/",
   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "VCF Automation",
   "summary": "Self-service and lifecycle for virtual machines, networks and Kubernetes namespaces. A catalogue with approval, an expiry date and teardown."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/solutions/vmware/vmware-cloud-foundation/vcf-fleet-management/",
   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "VCF Fleet Management",
   "summary": "Lifecycle across several VCF instances: inventory, version state and updates from one console rather than one at a time."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/solutions/vmware/vmware-cloud-foundation/vcf-operations-for-networks/",
   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "VCF Ops for Networks",
   "summary": "Visibility into the traffic between workloads: who talks to whom, over which path, and what the firewall rule has to say about it."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/solutions/vmware/vmware-cloud-foundation/vcf-operations/",
   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "VCF Operations",
   "summary": "Capacity, cost and health of the platform in one place. Since VCF 9 it is part of the platform rather than an optional add-on."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/solutions/vmware/vmware-cloud-foundation/vks/",
   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "vSphere Kubernetes Service",
   "summary": "Kubernetes inside the vSphere stack. Containers run on the existing platform and are managed with the same tools."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/solutions/vmware/vmware-cloud-foundation/vmware-vsan/",
   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "VCF Storage",
   "summary": "The local disks in your ESXi hosts become one shared datastore. Storage managed in the vSphere client instead of in a second console."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/solutions/vmware/vmware-cloud-service-provider/",
   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "Cloud Service Provider",
   "summary": "Under 3500 cores, a service provider now has to attach to a Premier or Pinnacle CSP. We do not host anything ourselves."
  },
  {
   "route": "/en/solutions/vmware/vmware-secure-access-service-edge/",
   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "SASE",
   "summary": "WAN and security as one architecture. Access depends on identity and context rather than on a tunnel into the company network."
  },
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   "route": "/en/solutions/vmware/vsphere-foundation/",
   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "vSphere Foundation",
   "summary": "The smaller of the two Broadcom bundles: vSphere with operations tooling, without the full private cloud platform on top."
  },
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   "kind": "Solution",
   "title": "vSphere",
   "summary": "The hypervisor under everything else: ESXi and vCenter. As vSphere Standard it is also sold on its own, without the larger bundles around it."
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}