Reducing MTTI (Mean Time to Innocence) Using…

Reducing MTTI (Mean Time to Innocence) Using vROps Dashboards

Reducing MTTI (Mean Time to Innocence) Using…

By: Chuck Petrie, Blue Medora Based on a recent industry study done by a major analyst firm, IT departments find that an excessive amount of time is lost when trying to determine the root cause of an issue. Often times this leads to dreaded MTTI (mean time to innocence) drills as multiple IT Teams The post Reducing MTTI (Mean Time to Innocence) Using vROps Dashboards appeared first on VMware Cloud Management .


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VMworld is back in Vegas in 2017 and possibly…

VMworld is back in Vegas in 2017 and possibly longer – vsphere-land.com

VMworld is back in Vegas in 2017 and possibly…

I mentioned in my write-up of VMworld 2016 that I heard from an inside source at VMware that VMworld will be back in Vegas for the next 2 years. VMware has already officially confirmed next year via their VMworld 2017 preview page were you can sign up to get news and info on VMworld 2017. … Continue reading » The post VMworld is back in Vegas in 2017 and possibly longer appeared first on Welcome to vSphere-land!. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other…Read More


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Some highlights from VMworld 2016

Some highlights from VMworld 2016 – CormacHogan.com

Some highlights from VMworld 2016

With Virtual SAN gaining huge momentum, I had a pretty busy VMworld 2016 in Las Vegas, and I didn’t have too much free time this year to immerse myself in the Solutions Exchange. However there were a few folks that Continue reading → The post Some highlights from VMworld 2016 appeared first on CormacHogan.com .


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What’s new with vRealize Operations 6.3

What’s new with vRealize Operations 6.3 – virtual-red-dot.info

What’s new with vRealize Operations 6.3

This blog complements the official blog that you can find here, and other articles such as this. You should also read the Release Notes. Super Metric I use around ~50 super metrics in typical engagement. By and large, it’s good enough for my customers’ requirements. On the other hand, I have seen folks like Ronald […] The post What’s new with vRealize Operations 6.3 appeared first on virtual red dot.


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VSAN, NSX on Cisco Nexus, vSphere Containers,…

VSAN, NSX on Cisco Nexus, vSphere Containers, NSX Future & a chat with VMware CEO – Highlights Of My Day 2 at VMworld 2016 US

VSAN, NSX on Cisco Nexus, vSphere Containers,…

In this post, I will aim tohighlight the various breakout sessions I’ve attended during the day 2at VMworld 2016 US, key items / notes / points learntand few other interesting things I was privy to during the daythat is worth… Continue Reading →


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Cannot connect to vCenter Server via vSphere…

The Virtual Unknown: Cannot connect to vCenter Server via vSphere Client – timeout

Cannot connect to vCenter Server via vSphere…

I’ve been upgrading my company’s solution centre to vSphere/vCenter 6.0 update 2 the past week and noticed that I was having issues logging into the vCenter Server Appliances I had deployed. It was a strange issuebecause I could log into … Continue reading →


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VMware PowerCLI for Mac OS X, Linux & More?…

VMware PowerCLI for Mac OS X, Linux & More? Yes, please! – virtuallyGhetto

VMware PowerCLI for Mac OS X, Linux & More?…

There were a several announcements at last weeks VMworld US Conference, but one of the most exciting piece of news in my opinion was from Alan Renouf, Product Manager for all things API/SDK/CLI at VMware. During Alan’s What’s New PowerCLI session, he announced that PowerCLI is finally coming to both Mac OS X as well as Linux! As you can imagine, the […]


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VMware Act II: NSX takes center stage while…

VMware Act II: NSX takes center stage while older tech matures behind the scenes – siliconANGLE

VMware Act II: NSX takes center stage while…

With the array of dazzling software hitting the market, it’s easy to get bored with older companies that deal in the nuts and bolts — until something burns out, malfunctions or allows a security breach. Then you remember that your flashy new application falls through the floor without rock-solid infrastructure. Luckily, not everyone is aspiring to be the next Docker. There are still some companies who are doing lower-level grunt work to enable the upper-level innovation.


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Tips for Success on VCAP Exams

Tips for Success on VCAP Exams

Tips for Success on VCAP Exams

As many of you know, the VCAP exams are a race against time. We urge you to read VCAP6 Deployment Exam Interface Tips & Tricks to familiarize yourself with the new interface so your time can be spent on completing tasks. In the post, Dave Davis explains how to setup the exam interface for the […] The post Tips for Success on VCAP Exams appeared first on VMware Education and Certification Blog .


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virtualguido: VMware ESXi Claim Rules unleashed

virtualguido: VMware ESXi Claim Rules unleashed

virtualguido: VMware ESXi Claim Rules unleashed

This blog article explains VMware ESXi claim rules in general and the differences between core and SATP (Storage Array Type Plugin) claim rules. In support we get a lot of questions about claim rules for several reasons. One could be performance tuning while another one could be the usage of a 3rd party multipathing plugin. With a claim rule you can pretty much define how a device of a certain vendor should behave if the the default setting won’t be sufficient. But let’s start from the…Read More


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Released: PowerNSX v2

Released: PowerNSX v2 – Network Inferno

Released: PowerNSX v2

VMworld 2016 has come and gone and one of the best releases of new software (I could be bias here) is PowerNSX. PowerNSX is a PowerShell module that abstracts the VMware NSX for vSphere API to a set of easily used PowerShell functions. In January 2016, PowerNSX v1 was release. At that time it included … Continue reading “Released: PowerNSX v2”


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vRops undocumented API calls – Michael Ryom

vRops undocumented API calls – Michael Ryom

vRops undocumented API calls – Michael Ryom

Over time I have had the please of using different API calls to vRops. To begin with a lot around the official vRops API, as can be seen here. Some of it was documented in the internal API some were not which can be seen here. In this blog post I explorer some more API calls. The calls here is of a different nature. Were as the prior was around doing precis calls to get a specific result. These call are of a more generic nature. These have to do with the vRops environment. These calls can be…Read More


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