Navigating Broadcom

Intro Now that my wardrobe is starting to look less ‘corporate drone’ and more ‘traffic cone enthusiast’ thanks to my recent move to Pure Storage, I’ve found myself forming a more holistic opinion about my former employer, Broadcom. If you’re expecting a fiery exposé from a disgruntled insider, I’m going to have to disappoint you. […]

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HCX Network Planning

Intro In my previous role as an AVS CSA, I collaborated with hundreds of customers to plan their HCX installations. Building on my previous post that explored the intricacies of an HCX Service Mesh and its various configurations, this blog post will take a more focused approach. We’ll surgically examine how to determine the necessary […]

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Time to calculate

Version 1.0 AVS Sizer!

I started thinking about how I could use this blog to make a sizer based on my previous AVS storage sizing post. Of course, as a reminder this is not an official sizer, but I understand that many in the partner and customer community don’t have any access to this basic need. So here we […]

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HCX Service Mesh Deep Dive

This topic has been rattling around in my brain for a LONG time. A HCX Service Mesh one of the toughest subjects that I struggled with when I started as a Cloud Solutions Architect for the Azure VMware Solution. An HCX Service Mesh is a critical component in HCX setup process. It facilitates the creation […]

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