Yannick Gerber
Yannick ist unser Master-of-all-Things-Container.
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- Experience
- 11 years of IT experience
- Languages
- DE · EN
- 4-year apprenticeship as Systems Engineer EFZ
- 7 years of IT experience
- 7 years at IT service providers
Awards
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Broadcom Knight - VMware vExpert
Focus areas
- Design and implementation of datacenter and service provider infrastructure based on VMware
- Veeam and Red Hat
- Container solutions based on VMware
- OpenShift and Microsoft Azure
Technologies
Further education
- Informatiker EFZ Systemtechnik 2014-2018
- Höhere Fachschule Informatik 2020-2023
Certifications 37 · verified via Credly
Broadcom Partner Certification - Proven Professional - VCF Automation - Architecture 2026 
Broadcom Partner Certification - Proven Professional - VCF Automation - Implementation 2026 
Broadcom Partner Certification - Broadcom Knight - VCF Storage 2026 
Broadcom Partner Certification - Certified Expert - VCF Storage - Implementation 2025 
Professional Cloud Architect Certification 2024 
Discovery: SecOps Engineer 2024 A selection. 31 further active certifications are not shown.
Project history 3 periods
- 2025
Healthcare
System Engineer & Solution Architect
Implementation of a large lifecycle project based on HPE Synergy, ProLiant, VMware vSAN, vROPS.
Defense
System Engineer & Solution Architect
Implementation of an air-gapped VCF 9 infrastructure in accordance with NIST (800-171, -53) and DISA STIG requirements.
- 2024
Healthcare
System Engineer
Implementation and operational support of container delivery services based on vSphere Kubernetes Service, ArgoCD, Harbor, GitLab.
Defense
System Engineer
Implementation of automation solutions with Ansible for HPE and VMware vSphere infrastructures in a highly regulated environment.
- 2023
Finance
Lead System Engineer
Implementation of a datacenter infrastructure based on vSAN Stretched Cluster, implementation of datacenter interconnect, highly available core services (AD DS, MSSQL).
2018 - 2022
Service operations and engineering in a service provider environment, IaaS and PaaS VMware vCloud infrastructure, design and implementation of Veeam backup services.
Posts
Microsoft Secure Boot certificates expire in June 2026
Microsoft is refreshing the Secure Boot certificates originally issued in 2011, so Windows systems keep verifying trusted boot software. The old ones expire in June 2026.
DSM 9.0 – MS SQL as a Service
VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 brought VMware Data Services Manager (DSM) 9.0 with it. Alongside many improvements, the largest new feature is support for Microsoft SQL Server (tech preview).
ESX 9.0 NVMe Memory Tiering
The NVMe memory tiering feature in ESX lets local NVMe SSDs be used as RAM, so cheap NVMe devices carry workload memory instead of expensive DRAM.
VCF and VVF 9.0 Installer – first look
The VMware Cloud Foundation Installer installs a VCF (VMware Cloud Foundation) or VVF (vSphere Foundation) infrastructure. It is the Cloud Builder's successor, and a considerably better one.
VMware by Broadcom – License Changes
There is a fair amount of misinformation going round about the VMware by Broadcom licence changes, particularly the 72-core minimum. Here is what is actually true.
Monitor vSphere Supervisor and Guest Clusters with VCF Operations
Monitoring vSphere Supervisor Cluster and Kubernetes Guest Cluster with the Kubernetes Management Pack in VCF (Aria) Operations. The Monitoring is a great alternative to prometheus and grafana.
VMware Data Services Manager – DBaaS
VMware Data Services Manager (DSM) provisions databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and MinIO S3 buckets simply, and takes care of their lifecycle, backup, monitoring and alerting.
vSphere Supervisor Services
Supervisor Services run Kubernetes deployments directly on a vSphere namespace, so no Kubernetes guest cluster is needed and the pods run on the ESXi host through the vSphere CRX runtime.
VMware Private AI Foundation: we bring the AI to your data
VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA (PAIF-N) lets companies run AI workloads securely and efficiently on their own infrastructure.
Broadcom Support Portal – Quick Links
A collection of links into the Broadcom Support Portal, so you get to the right product download or the right portal quickly.