VMware Brings Adaptiva to AirWatch UEM for…

VMware Brings Adaptiva to AirWatch UEM for Windows 10 Deployments — Redmondmag.com

VMware Brings Adaptiva to AirWatch UEM for…

In its latest effort to extend its AirWatch platform beyond core mobile device management (MDM), VMware today said it has tapped Adaptiva to integrate its OneSite peer-to-peer software distribution tool with its new AirWatch Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) offering.


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VMs not getting killed after vMSC partition has…

VMs not getting killed after vMSC partition has lifted – via Yellow Bricks

VMs not getting killed after vMSC partition has…

I was talking to a VMware partner over the past couple of weeks about challenges they had in a new vSphere Metro Storage Cluster (vMSC) environment. In their particular case they simulated a site partition. During the site partition three things were expected to happen:


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Log Insight User Alerts from the VCOPS User

Log Insight User Alerts from the VCOPS User – via SFlanders.net

Log Insight User Alerts from the VCOPS User

In my last post, I covered the new user alerts administration page in Log Insight 4.0. On that page, you may have noticed alerts from the mysterious VCOPS_* user. In this post, I would like to explain why the VCOPS_* user may exist and why you should not modify alerts from that user. Read on to learn more!


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{Excellent} All-Flash VMware Virtual SAN 6.2 on…

All-Flash VMware Virtual SAN 6.2 on Dell FX2 – via Define Tomorrow™

{Excellent} All-Flash VMware Virtual SAN 6.2 on…

We’ve been lucky enough to get our hands on a Dell Virtual SAN ready node based on the FX2 hardware platform. The FX2 chassis contains 4 x FC430 compute nodes, 2 x storage sleds containing the SSD drives, and 2 x 10Gb IOA modules. Each node has 3 x 800GB and 1 x 200GB SSD drives mapped from the storage sleds and these are presented in pass through mode.


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Basic VMware Security Tools and Practices

Basic VMware Security Tools and Practices – via VMware TAM Blog

Basic VMware Security Tools and Practices

I had the pleasure of joining my first ever internal security conference called MooseCon (Making Our Organization Security Experts Conference). There were a variety of topics discussed, but one particular talk by Noah Wasmer, Senior Vice President of Mobile Products, stayed with me the most. Noah discussed recent cyber attacks in the news, and he asked, “If you were on the front page of the Wall Street Journal because of a security breach, what would that do to your business?”


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How Does A DMZ-Zone for Hybrid Clouds Actually…

How Does A DMZ-Zone for Hybrid Clouds Actually Work?

How Does A DMZ-Zone for Hybrid Clouds Actually…

While the cloud is revolutionary for enterprises, security issues are stalling migration. In our previous blog, we highlighted how vCloud Air Hybrid DMZ resolves those barriers.


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Adding new vNICs in UCS changes vmnic order in…

Adding new vNICs in UCS changes vmnic order in ESXi – via Open902.com

Adding new vNICs in UCS changes vmnic order in…

This problem exists since the dawn of time really. I have seen this all the back in ESX3.x where adding new physical NICs changes the vmnic order. Example KB: VMware.com.


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Auto Deploy performance boost with reverse…

Auto Deploy performance boost with reverse proxy caches

Auto Deploy performance boost with reverse…

The latest release of VMware vSphere includes beneficial improvements to Auto Deploy, including a new graphical user interface, a new deployment workflow, and various manageability and operational enhancements. One of the operational advancements is a dramatically simplified caching capability.


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Configure and Manage VMware vSphere Distributed…

Configure and Manage VMware vSphere Distributed Switch

Configure and Manage VMware vSphere Distributed…

A virtual switch helps admins connect virtual machines and direct traffic throughout a virtual network. But the VMware vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) provides more: more features and support for highly scalable environments. With the right configuration, VDS can help you manage the virtual resources of your entire network. In this course, author Brandon Neill shows how to configure and manage the VDS.


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HOL Three-Tier Application, Part 1

HOL Three-Tier Application, Part 1

HOL Three-Tier Application, Part 1

This is the first post in my series about the multi-tier application we use in some of the VMware Hands-on Labs to demonstrate, among other things, network connectivity, microsegmentation and load balancing. This post will cover downloading the base operating system and performing the configuration tasks common to all of the VMs in the solution. As with anything, there are multiple ways to do this. This represents the way that worked for me.


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Cohesity Solutions Guide for VMware

Cohesity Solutions Guide for VMware – via Punching Clouds

Cohesity Solutions Guide for VMware

Hot off the press!!!! New Cohesity solutions guide for VMware. This guide is tailored for virtualization, storage and backup architects and administrators who are responsible for enterprise data protection of their VMware environments. The guide outlines the core architecture of Cohesity’s Data Managment platform in VMware environment. You will find details key design recommendations and practices for successful configuration and deployments.


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Upgrade an Appliance with OvfTools – LucD notes

Upgrade an Appliance with OvfTools – via LucD notes

Upgrade an Appliance with OvfTools – LucD notes

Appliances are hot! Each appliance, delivered as an OVA or OVF, can have one or more properties attached to it. These properties are mostly used to configure the appliance. In PowerCLI we have the Get-OvfConfiguration cmdlet. It returns the user configurable properties from an OVF or OVA file in a hash table.


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VCAP6-DCV Design Objective 1.1 on the…

VCAP6-DCV Design Objective 1.1 on the #vBrownbag – via TheSaffaGeek

VCAP6-DCV Design Objective 1.1 on the…

Last night I decided an hour before the planned time for the first vBrownbag VCAP6-DCV Design Objectives series to pull together a presentation and take on the objective. Jason Grierson had partly put his hand up for the objective but was unable to complete his before last night but agreed to join me on the broadcast and it worked out a life saver.


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