VCDX #181 Marc Huppert

Month: May 2016

Proactive Monitoring Virtual SAN 6.2…

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Proactive Monitoring Virtual SAN 6.2 Infrastructures With New Content Pack For vRealize Log Insight

Proactive Monitoring Virtual SAN 6.2…

Back in December 2015, I published an article announcing the release of the Virtual SAN content pack for vRealize Log Insight. In the article, I delved into some of the key details of what the content pack delivers with the ability to automate the management of Virtual SAN logs. The product’s ability to combine the aggregation of analytics, together with search capabilities it provides operational intelligence and enterprise-wide visibility into dynamic environments with Virtual SAN.

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Vote now for the Top vBlogs of 2016

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Vote now for the Top vBlogs of 2016 (via Vipin V.K)

Vote now for the Top vBlogs of 2016

As many of you might have already known, this is the time for voting for the top vBlogs for the year of 2016. An yearly program by Eric Siebert of vsphere-land to identify the industry’s top bloggers in various categories. This year’s voting is in partnership with VMTurbo .

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VMware Virtual SAN 6.2 with Virtual Desktop…

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#VMware Virtual SAN 6.2 with Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Workload (via ntpro.nl)

VMware Virtual SAN 6.2 with Virtual Desktop…

This white paper evaluates the performance of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) applications with Virtual SAN 6.2. The Virtual Desktop Infrastructure delivers desktop service to end users by running virtual machines on consolidated clusters in the datacenter.

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Hot Off The Press: Virtual SAN 6.2 Network…

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Hot Off The Press: Virtual SAN 6.2 Network Design Guide

Hot Off The Press: Virtual SAN 6.2 Network…

Virtual SAN 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.

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VMworld 2016 US Public Session Voting open thru…

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#VMworld 2016 US Public Session Voting open thru May 24th

VMworld 2016 US Public Session Voting open thru…

Public Session Voting is the opportunity for the VMware community of experts, customers, partners, bloggers and enthusiasts to cast their votes and help shape the agenda for VMworld 2016.

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Adjusting vRealize Operations Root Logging Levels

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Adjusting #vRealize Operations Root Logging Levels

Adjusting vRealize Operations Root Logging Levels

Root logging levels are primarily used for troubleshooting and diagnosing issues within VMware‘s various software and applications. Today we will focus on the root logging levels within VMware’s vRealize Operations Management software otherwise known as vROps. We will cover what the various logging levels do, as well as how to view and change these log levels. Please note: in order to access log files, you must have permission to access the “Administration” gear icon.

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vSphere 6 Training and Certification

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#vSphere 6 Training and Certification

vSphere 6 Training and Certification

VMware vSphere is the foundation of the Software-Defined Data Center. The new vSphere 6 extends your ability to virtualize scale-up and scale-out applications, redefine availability, and simplify your virtual data center. Gain more value from your investment with vSphere 6 training from VMware Education Services.

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Public session voting now open for VMworld

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Public session voting now open for #VMworld (via vSphere-land)

Public session voting now open for VMworld

I’m not sure VMware has officially announced it yet but public voting for VMworld session submissions is now open. I haven’t seen any tweets on it from the @VMworld account and the main VMworld web page doesn’t mention it yet but the Content Catalog is now live and after some poking around I found the Vote for Sessions link on the VMworld site on the Learning drop down tab. The link basically just takes you to the Content Catalog which I posted about yesterday, but you can vote on your favorite sessions if you login to the site.

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Remove “All vCenter Server” option from vROps…

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Remove “All vCenter Server” option from vROps Authentication Source (via vXpress)

Remove “All vCenter Server” option from vROps…

A quick post to share a handy option which is available on vROps version 6.1 and above. We all know that their are multiple methods to authenticate a user to login in vRealize Operations Manager. I have usually seen organizations starting with their vROps journey using the vCenter Authentication option which comes out of the box with the product as soon as you integrate vROps with your vCenter server.

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Configure Edge Load Balancing in NSX

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Configure Edge Load Balancing in NSX (via Virten.net)

Configure Edge Load Balancing in NSX

An Edge Services Gateway allows to connect services running on Logical Switches outside of NSX based networks. I’ve explained the base installation from zero to the first ESG here. This post explains how to connect Web servers running on logical networks VXLAN to the outside.

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What if I want full metrics? in #vROps

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What if I want full metrics? in #vROps (via definit.co.uk)

What if I want full metrics? in #vROps

vRealize-Operations-Manager-Logo.jpgIf you have used vCOps (previous version of vROPs) you will likely remember the option in the admin panel where you could change the number of metrics being collected from “balanced” to “full”.

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Proactive Monitoring Virtual SAN 6.2…

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Proactive Monitoring VSAN 6.2 Infrastructures w/ New Content Pack for vRealize Log Insight

Proactive Monitoring Virtual SAN 6.2…

Back in December 2015, I published an article announcing the release of the Virtual SAN content pack for vRealize Log Insight. In the article, I delved into some of the key details of what the content pack delivers with the ability to automate the management of Virtual SAN logs. The product’s ability to combine the aggregation of analytics, together with search capabilities it provides operational intelligence and enterprise-wide visibility into dynamic environments with Virtual SAN.

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vRealize Operations Tech Tip: Building…

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#vRealize Operations Tech Tip: Building Interactive Dashboards

vRealize Operations Tech Tip: Building…

vRealize Operations ships with a number of predefined dashboards to help visualize the infrastructure from day one of deployment, but a powerful feature of vRealize Operations is the ability to build your own custom dashboards. Dashboards are built up from widgets, which are part of the product and can be used to display various types of different information in a variety of visual formats to help you manage your infrastructure the way you want to.

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Auto Quarantine with NSX and Trend Micro Deep…

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Auto Quarantine with NSX and Trend Micro Deep Security (via bkdatacentre.com)

Auto Quarantine with NSX and Trend Micro Deep…

I recently worked on a very interesting integration between VMware NSX and Trend Micro Deep Security, the integration has the ability for Trend Micro Deep Security to auto quarantine a VM by applying an NSX Tag to the VM.

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EMC Unity With Native Virtual Volumes Support

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EMC Unity With Native Virtual Volumes Support (via Virtual Blocks)

EMC Unity With Native Virtual Volumes Support

One of the major announcements at EMC World this year was the release of Unity, a new midrange All-flash storage array from EMC. I was particularly pleased to see this release as a key design goal for Unity was to deliver native support for vSphere Virtual Volumes and Storage Policy-Based Management. The certification for EMC Unity for both block and file across both All-flash and Hybrid configurations has been completed and is available on the updated VMware Virtual Volumes compatibility guide.

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