VCDX #181 Marc Huppert

Month: July 2016

Get in the NVMe SSD game (if you are not…

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Get in the NVMe SSD game (if you are not already) with Intel 750 among others

Get in the NVMe SSD game (if you are not…

If you are or have talked the Non Volatile Memory (NVM) and NVM Express (NVMe) flash SSD talk, however have not yet done the walk, there are some good opportunities to do so. One example how to start walking the talk is get something like the Intel 750 400GB NVMe PCIe Add in Card (AiC) which you should be able to find on different venues including Amazon for $400 USD or less (recently saw the 400GB version for about $309 USD delivered). Of course the question might then be what to do with a NVMe device when you get it which besides running your applications on it, you can find some benchmark and workload generator tools, scripts and examples here.

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Yellow Bricks: VSAN everywhere with Computacenter

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Yellow Bricks: VSAN everywhere with Computacenter

Yellow Bricks: VSAN everywhere with Computacenter

This week I had the pleasure to have a chat with Marc Huppert (VCDX181). Marc works for Computacenter in Germany as a Senior Consultant and Category Leader VMware Solutions. He primarily focuses on datacenter technology. I noticed a tweet from Marc that he was working on a project where they will be implementing a 60 site ROBO deployment. It is one of those use cases that I don’t get to see too often in Europe so I figured I would drop him a note. We had a conversation of about an hour and below is the story around this project, and some of the other projects Marc has worked on.

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Exploring VSAN APIs Part 9 – VSAN Component count

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Exploring VSAN APIs Part 9 – VSAN Component count

The last topic that I would like to explore before concluding my VSAN API blog series are some of the advanced VSAN disk statistics that are available for either troubleshooting or informational purposes. One such statistic that would be handy to know about is the number of VSAN Components per ESXi host, which I have already demonstrated in my recent VSAN configuration maximum query script and VSAN PowerCLI vCheck Plugins. These disk statistics are made available through the VSAN InternalSystem manager and using the QueryPhysicalVsanDisks() vSphere API method, we can either retrieve all or a specific set of properties for each ESXi host. I have created a sample vSphere SDK for Perl script called vsanDiskStatsQueries.pl that will…Read More

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VMware Identity Manager On-Premises Deployment…

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VMware Identity Manager On-Premises Deployment Considerations

VMware Identity Manager On-Premises Deployment…

The VMware Identity Manager Deployment Considerations white paper collects and clarifies information from a wide range of sources to make it easier for IT professionals to plan on-premises deployments. The post VMware Identity Manager On-Premises Deployment Considerations appeared first on VMware End-User Computing Blog .

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Join us for VMworld 2016

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Join us for VMworld 2016

Join us for VMworld 2016

Join us and Learn How to (v)Realize the SDDC, Public Cloud and DevOps @ VMworld 2016! Only a few weeks to the big show! Want to learn with us how to bring together private cloud, virtual networks, containers, OpenStack, and public mega-clouds (all 3 of them!) in your IT? Join VMware’s Cloud Management track at The post Join us for VMworld 2016 appeared first on VMware Cloud Management .

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NSX Backup & Restore + vRealize Log Insight…

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NSX Backup & Restore + vRealize Log Insight Videos Added to Learning Zone

NSX Backup & Restore + vRealize Log Insight…

VMware Learning Zone subscribers get a year of unlimited access to our cloud-based video training library taught by top VMware experts, including all our new releases, like these from the past month: VMware NSX Backup and Restore Series Summary Tips What to Back Up Architecture Backup Approaches Demo: Backup Configuration VMware vRealize Log Insight Series […] The post NSX Backup & Restore + vRealize Log Insight Videos Added to Learning Zone appeared first on VMware Education and…Read More

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Using vSphere docker volume driver to run…

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Using vSphere docker volume driver to run Project Harbor on VSAN – CormacHogan.com

Using vSphere docker volume driver to run…

Project Harbor is another VMware initiative in the Cloud Native Apps space. In a nutshell, it allows you to store and distributes Docker images locally from within your own infrastructure. While Project Harbor provides security, identity and management of images, it also offers better performance by having the registry closer to the build and run environment for image transfers. Harbor also supports multiple deployments so that you can have images replicated between them for high availability. You can get more information (including the necessary components) about Project Harbor on github.

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Loops and Power(shell)NSX

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Loops and Power(shell)NSX via Network Inferno

Loops and Power(shell)NSX

There was a request on the internal PowerShell slack channel. It was about how to make over 4,000 Security Groups and probably as many Security Tags for NSX. PowerNSX fits very well here. The requirement was to take the given fields in a CSV file and create objects from there. Using the import-csv command it … Continue reading “Loops and Power(shell)NSX”

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vSphere 5.0 & 5.1 End of Support soon – Upgrade…

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vSphere 5.0 & 5.1 End of Support soon – Upgrade your ESXi Hosts

vSphere 5.0 & 5.1 End of Support soon – Upgrade…

You might be aware that General Support for VMware vSphere 5.0 and 5.1 ends in about 4 weeks atAugust 24th. If not, I encourage you to use myVMware Product End Of Support Countdownto keep an eye on EOS dates (It … Read more »

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vRealize Log Insight 3.3 : Content Pack Management

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vRealize Log Insight 3.3 : Content Pack Management — VMwareMinds

vRealize Log Insight 3.3 : Content Pack Management

Hello All,This is my next Blog in to the vRealize Solutions series. We will understand what is the Content pack and how we can manage them. vRealize manage and Analyze terabytes of logs, perform smart parsing to discover structure in unstructured data, and enable interactive, real-time search and analytics through a GUI-based, easy to use interface. Content Pack are the utilities to integrate the different component with Log Insight (i.e vSphere, vRops, vSan etc..)

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5 (Great) Reasons to Check Out VMware Partner…

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5 (Great) Reasons to Check Out VMware Partner Exchange (via The VAR Guy)

5 (Great) Reasons to Check Out VMware Partner…

As it increasingly drives business strategy and success, technology is changing at a blistering pace. This new normal is bringing new challenges for customers and, thus, opportunities for partners—if they are prepared to take advantage of them.

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vROps Views (2 of 5): Creating a View from Scratch

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vROps Views (2 of 5): Creating a View from Scratch

vROps Views (2 of 5): Creating a View from Scratch

By: Kyle Wassink, Blue Medora vROps Views Blog Series There is a lot to love about vROps Views. So much, in fact, that they deserve an entire blog series! This series will cover how to create them, how to reuse them, why they are valuable, and much more. Where to Start Views can The post vROps Views (2 of 5): Creating a View from Scratch appeared first on VMware Cloud Management .

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