The upcoming Prime Day deals has me taking a look at great deals out there. Here are a few to note and I will continue to update the list as I spot good deals: Beelink GTi13 Ultra Mini PC, Intel Core i9-13900HK 21% off: https://geni.us/beelinkgti13ultra Samsung 990 EVO 4TB is 28% off: https://geni.us/samsung990evo4tb-prime Crucial 128 GB DDR5 SODIMM kit 6% off: https://geni.us/crucial128gbddr5-prime GMKtec M3 Plus with Core i9 25% off: https://geni.us/gmktecm3plus-prime Minisforum UM870 Mini PC 20% off: https://geni.us/minisforumum870-prime MINISFORUM UM880 Plus Mini PC AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS 20% off: https://geni.us/minisforumum880-prime Acemagic mini PC with N150 41% off: https://geni.us/acemagicn150-prime Beelink Mini S13 Mini PC,13th Intel Twin Lake-N150 23% off: https://geni.us/beelinkminis13-prime

just bit the bullet and throw in a order for a barebone minisforum N5 pro NAS. Going to move the rest of my 3.5 disks to the NAS. Spouse will "kill" me if she knows 😘🤪. Order will be deliver in late August ..

https://betweentheclouds.podbean.com/e/episode-2-vcf-9-corecontrol-docker-rollout-and-proxmenux-for-proxmox-in-your-home-lab/

Everyone, I have been working on practice tests for the VCP-VCF exam for those interested in getting certified which is now a requirement for VMUG licensing. These take quite a bit of time to put together, so selling these for $20 to help support the Skool environment and other content creation activities. I currently have 3 practice exams of 70 questions each and will be adding new practice exams over the next couple of weeks. You can check these out in the classroom section 👍

It wasn't there last night. It sure was this morning. Just got done, after three hours, downloading all the components of VMware Cloud Foundation 9. To say they rebuilt this from scratch is evident. The download for VCF 5.2 is three items. All told, the download (of every last component) of VCF 9 is 72 items. Now, I have to find a machine to deploy it on. I don't know how much disk space I'll need (I saw something somewhere about 9/10 of a terabyte), or how much RAM, assuming, of course, I deploy this is a William Lam consolidated virtualized fashion. I think I'll get an instance of vCenter and a single ESX (no more ESXi) host up. Then worry about the rest of the product. Gonna need lots of cores!