As I write this, the global AI Impact Summit is happening in New Delhi. The first ever AI summit in the developing world. Prime Minister Modi just delivered his inaugural address. UN Secretary General is there. Sam Altman, Sundar Pichai, business leaders from across the globe are gathered at Bharat Mandapam. And my LinkedIn feed is full of the same question. "Will AI take my job?" Last week, a colleague working in banking operations called me. He had just read another article predicting massive job losses from AI. He sounded genuinely worried about his future in financial services. I understand this fear. But I also think we are looking at this completely wrong. What the Leaders Actually Said Today Let me tell you what struck me about Modi's speech this morning. He presented the "MANAV Vision" for AI. But more importantly, listen to what he actually said. "While some see fear in AI, others see the future. I can say with utmost pride t...
Recently I had a customer who migrated their VMware infrastructure from vSphere 7.0 to VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0. After the migration, they wanted to update their vSAN storage policies to take advantage of the new vSAN ESA (Express Storage Architecture) features. However, when they tried to change the storage policy for their production VMs, the operation kept failing with a cryptic error message. The error they were getting was: "Cannot complete operation due to insufficient resources to satisfy current storage policy." This was strange because they had plenty of disk space available. The vSAN cluster was only at 45% capacity, and all the hosts were healthy. Let me walk through how we troubleshooted and fixed this issue. Understanding the Problem First, let's understand what was happening in their environment: They had a 6-node vSAN cluster running VCF 9.0 vSAN was configured with the new ESA architecture They were trying to migrate VMs fro...