Timo Sugliani

New blog: vSphere HA setting Performance degradation VMs tolerate - yellow-bricks.com/2026/04/08/vsp…

[🆕] - Automating Lab Optimizations for Post-Deployment of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) williamlam.com/2026/04/automa… ☝️Finally found some time to automate (did old fashion way, no AI was used) a few tweaks for lab deployments of #VCF9

[🆕] - Maximizing vSAN ESA Performance on Minisforum MS-A2 williamlam.com/2026/03/maximi… 👆A MUST read if you're owner of an MS-A2! 🧠 Learned a ton from Nicholas Wilson (Broadcom)! 🙏 #VCF9

New tool: Same-size vs Mixed-size Placement Simulator See how vGPU profile choices shape cluster-wide GPU capacity over time. Not just per GPU. Walkthrough: frankdenneman.nl/posts/2026-03-… Simulator: frankdenneman.nl/tools/same-siz…

Here's a big one! 🎉 Official FastAPI extension for @code 🎁 🗺️ Path operations explorer 🔎 ...and search ✅ From tests: go to definition 🎁 And more! marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName… GitHub: github.com/fastapi/fastap… Thank you @savostrowski 🙌

2025 year wrap-up for iximiuz Labs 🚀 - 21K+ new users (12K in 2024) - ~160K VMs fired up (x2 YoY) - 31K challenge submissions, 18K accepted - 830 playgrounds created - First net-positive year after ~3 years of bootstrapping Biggest features 🛠️ - Playgrounds 2.0 (multi-VM, multi-network, multi-disk, custom rootfs, kernel switcher) - Persistent playgrounds + instant clones - Coding-agent base playground - Markdown and YAML-powered, shareable playgrounds - Faster boots via SSH-over-VSOCK - Bigger & more reliable infra (AP region x3, EU region gets better servers) Content in 2025 📚 - 20+ tutorials (incl. a 5k-word deep dive on container filesystems) - ~40 public challenges (+50 private) - Hands-on Docker Roadmap launched - 7 skill paths (containers + eBPF) - ~50 trainer-led events, incl. 4 real-world university courses Business 📈 - $185K revenue in 2025 - ~3,000 Premium members - ~2,000 lifetime Premiums - Premium got cheaper (VAT-incl + PPP discounts) 2026 focus: content, content, content 🤓 - Finish Docker Roadmap - Two hands-on Kubernetes roadmaps - More networking fundamentals - Better content discovery, author profiles, creator monetization Looking back at what shipped in 2025, I'm convinced we've built enough momentum to make 2026 a truly exceptional year for the platform! 💪

Alrighty. The Toad is out of the bag. 👜🐸 Install toad to work with a variety of #AI coding agents with one beautiful terminal interface. Check out the blog post for more information... willmcgugan.github.io/toad-released/ I've been told I'm very authentic on camera. You just can't fake that kind of awkwardness.

[🆕] - Increasing VCF Installer & SDDC Manager Timeout for NSX Deployment williamlam.com/2025/12/increa… 👆Few useful parameters to update for resource constrained environments #VCF9

📢 vSphere 8.0 Update 3h is now available! Upgrade from VC 7.0u3w ✅ Upgrade to 9.0.x ❌ 📒 Release Notes: 🔸VC techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-c… 🔹ESX techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-c…

[🆕] - Quick Tip - Downloading VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Consumption CLI for Air-Gapped Environments williamlam.com/2025/12/quick-… #VCF9

Nice post from Tomas Fojta on #VCF9 Automation Networking Deep Dive 🧠🌐 fojta.wordpress.com/2025/12/05/vcf…

Go master your Linux, Docker, and networking skills and support Ivan. He’s an absolute legend!

Ivan is very knowledgeable about Linux, containers, and Kubernetes, and his educational content is excellent. I highly recommend checking it out if you are interested in those topics.

[🆕] - Updated method for automatically joining vCenter Server using ESXi Kickstart williamlam.com/2025/09/update… ☝️Works for both ESXi 8.x & 9.x

[🆕] - Updated Nested ESXi 8.x & 9.0 Virtual Appliance williamlam.com/2025/08/update…

VCF 9.0 Volume Service – Consuming static RWX volumes via VKS - more VCF Automation goodness cormachogan.com/2025/08/07/vcf… #VCF #VCFA

Main Docker Container Commands (Cheat Sheet) 🔽 Running containers, attaching to them, and executing commands in containers are the key container management operations. Tried my best to explain them visually on a single diagram.

[🆕] - MS-A2 VCF 9.0 Lab: Configuring vSphere Supervisor with NSX VPC Networking williamlam.com/2025/08/ms-a2-… #VCF9

Great introduction to Omarchy by @typecraft_dev. We are coming full circle here, as I first learned about Hyprland from the Typecraft YouTube channel! 😄 youtube.com/watch?v=6YJImM…

[🆕] - How to deploy VVF/VCF 9.0 using @MyVMUG Advantage & VCP-VCF Certification Entitlement williamlam.com/2025/07/how-to… ☝️Quick workaround for our VMUG Advantage members w/VCP-VCF certification to start deploying VCF9 right now! Longer term solution actively being worked on 🙏