Eric Sloof

ESXi Learnswitch is a complete implementation of MAC Learning and Filtering and is designed as a wrapper around the host virtual switch. It supports learning multiple source MAC addresses on virtual network interface cards (vNIC) and filters packets from egressing the wrong port based on destination MAC lookup.


This substantially improves overall network throughput and system performance for nested ESX and container use cases.

vSAN is a hypervisor-converged, software-defined storage solution for the software-defined data center. It is the first policy-driven storage product designed for VMware vSphere environments that simplifies and streamlines storage provisioning and management.

vSAN is a distributed, shared storage solution that enables the rapid provisioning of storage within VMware vCenter Server as part of virtual machine creation and deployment operations.

vSAN requires a correctly configured network for virtual machine I/O as well as communication among cluster nodes. Since the majority of virtual machine I/O travels the network due to the distributed storage architecture, highly performing and available network configuration is critical to a successful vSAN deployment.


This paper gives a technology overview of vSAN network requirements and provides vSAN network design and configuration best practices for deploying a highly available and scalable vSAN solution.

This course highlights the new features and enhancements in vSphere 6.5. It also presents use cases that describe how the new features align with customer needs.

This course begins by discussing VMware vCenter and VMware vSphere administration. To simplify what’s new in vSphere 6.5, we can break the advancements down into three primary categories under vSphere and vCenter server administration. 

• First, we have dramatically simplified the administrator’s experience which makes IT more efficient than ever before. 
• Second, we have added comprehensive built-in security into vSphere 6.5 to secure your entire data center. 
• And the third is that it provides a universal application platform giving you the ability to run any application, anywhere.

At the end of this course, you should be able to:

• Explain the important functional and architectural changes in vSphere 6.5
• Identify high-level capabilities that arise from the functional changes
• Identify new use cases that are now feasible with vSphere 6.5
• Outline the new features in related software-defined data center products that are now enabled with vSphere 6.5 enhancements

This video provides instructions on how to configure the software iSCSI adapter in the VMware Host Client version 1.8.0 and later

Great VMware vSAN 6.6 Demo created by Duncan Epping, more info at Yellow-Bricks

The purpose of this book is to give you a thorough introduction to competitive programming. It is assumed that you already know the basics of programming, but previous background on competitive programming is not needed.

The book is especially intended for students who want to learn algorithms and possibly participate in the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) or in the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC). Of course, the book is
also suitable for anybody else interested in competitive programming.


It takes a long time to become a good competitive programmer, but it is also an opportunity to learn a lot. You can be sure that you will get a good general understanding of algorithms if you spend time reading the book, solving problems and taking part in contests

Announcing the faster, more cost effective and more secure VMware vSAN 6.6! Learn what's new, the benefits, and incentives.

Reservation and shares are important resource management knobs in a vSphere DRS cluster. They can be set on cluster objects like VMs and resource pools to isolate resources, prioritize, and/or guarantee their availability.


To know when to set them for VMs and when to set them on resource pools, we need to understand. What these settings mean, and how these settings can impact resource availability for a VM

In this paper, VMware explains how these settings are different for a VM and resource pool while giving some general guidelines for using them.

VMware Horizon 7.1 extends the use of Instant Clones to creating RDSH Farms. As a key component of the JMP (Just-in-Time Management Platform) this provides several key benefits, including simplified RDSH image management, faster delivery and maintenance. Learn about the benefits this brings, how it works and see a demo of Instant Clones for RDSH in action.

This short video and demo will cover two new Instant Clone features as part of VMware Horizon 7.1. The ability to select multiple VLANs allows for the creation of bigger pools of desktops than the physical network subnets support. vGPU with NVIDIA M-series cards to Instant Clones extends their benefits to more use cases.