Help Shape PowerCLI’s Future – Poll – via VMware PowerCLI Blog
Community feedback has always played an important role in how PowerCLI has evolved and improved. Whether it’s the desire to convert from snapins to modules, adding additional functionalities to existing cmdlets, or creating brand new cmdlets and modules, the feedback we receive has always been extremely important.
Automating Windows Patches on Templates – via Jorge Torres’s Virtualization Blog
Back in 2015, I posted a use case on the VMware Communities that described a process I implemented to keep various Windows Templates up to date with Microsoft patches on multiple vSphere 5.5 environments.
Script Download Counts – via Carl Webster
I am now tracking the download counts as of the first day of each month. This will allow those who contribute scripts and tools to track the counts so they have the data for their community contribution data reported for CTPs, MVPs, vExperts or employer requested data.
vSphere 6.x Enable & Disable iSCSI Jumbo Frames on vmk & vswitches powershell script – via VirtualFlow
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AirWatch Connect Keynote: Boeing’s Sue Harris Chats with Sanjay Poonen
Sue Harris, IT Director for End User Infrastructure Services at Boeing, joined VMware EUC EVP onstage at Connect Atlanta 2016 to talk about how mobility has transformed the airline industry and revolutionized engineering processes at Boeing. Learn more about VMware AirWatch’s secure mobility solutions here: http://bit.ly/2dGtlxZ
VMware Foresees a Future Where Photon, Kubernetes, and NSX Work on Bare Metal – via The New Stack
For a firm often portrayed as “the hypervisor company,” it’s astonishing to see VMware enabling a future for itself in data centers where hypervisors may be completely absent.
Exploring new VCSA VAMI API w/PowerCLI: Part 6 – via virtuallyGhetto
In Part 6, we will take a look at how we can use the new VAMI APIs to easily associate the underlying VMDKs to their respective OS disk partitions for a VCSA or PSC node. In addition, the workflow of increasing the disk capacity for a specific partition has also been simplified further with the new VAMI APIs.
A New Beginning – NSX-T – via Ather Beg’s Useful Thoughts
With NSX 6.3, VMware is also releasing something called NSX-T. If this is the first time you’re hearing about it, rest assured, you are not alone. First of all, “T” stands for “Transformers” and the version being released today is 1.1.
VMware NSX 6.3 is here! – via VMGuru
NSX 6.3 is almost generally available and it’s a humongous one. The changes in this new version reflect a new maturation phase in which NSX is now in. Here are my top picks, for the entire list of changes there will be an official release notes document soon.
VMware NSX 6.2 Beginners Guide – From Zero to Full Deployment for Labs – via Virten.net
This beginners guide explains how to deploy NSX in your homelab even with limited physical ressources by downsizing NSX Manager and NSX Controller VMs.
Review of vRealize Operations (vROps) by a Real User – via IT Central Station
Capacity planning is the most useful feature. One of its flaws is with reporting.
Building a Nested ESXi Lab For Your Company – via virtual insanity
Let’s face it, most companies don’t have Labs for you to learn new software and operating systems, let alone test upgrades and changes to your existing environments.
How to correctly modify the .vmx file in VMware Fusion 8.x – via VMGuru
In this blogpost, I will go deeper in correctly editing the .vmx and how to fix a .vmx file that was altered incorrectly and is now broken. Also some nifty hidden gems are found along the way.
A Cloud Alliance Between VMware and AWS Takes Shape – via VMware Radius
VMware Cloud on AWS has generated great enthusiasm from companies looking to manage across public and private cloud environments.
VMware’s New NSX-T Product: 5 Things Partners Need To Know – via CRN
Here are five things partners need to know about VMware’s new NSX-T product, its target market, its competitors and VMware’s vision.
VMCA 6.5 as an Intermediate CA – via The Wifi-Cable
Certificates have always been an interesting topic to me. I have seen complex PKI infrastructures on several occasions but more often than not most environments have utilized certificates in a limited capacity. In regards to vSphere, a majority of the time the default certificates provided by vSphere were sufficient for most deployments.
Updating my lab to vSphere 6.5 – part 2 – via vPentathlon
In the previous post we discuss the upgrade process for the vCenter appliance, in this post we will continue to update the lab to vsphere6.5 by upgrading the hosts.
How to purge all logs in vRealize Log Insight? – via virtuallyGhetto
I had just deployed a new vRealize Log Insight (vRLI) 4.0 instance in my home lab environment to investigate a behavior that I was seeing with another product, non-vRLI related. Due to the nature of the work, I needed to have a pristine vRLI environment each time to study the results.
Inside the Mind of a UX Designer – via VMware EUC Blog
Quite often, people think of user experience (UX) simply in terms of the end product, (i.e., the page layout, the buttons, the labels, etc.—essentially, the elements you see onscreen). However, as UX designers, we often view our role in the UX process similar to that of a building architect.
NSX Bytes: NSX for vSphere 6.3 and NSX-T 1.1 Release Information – via VIRTUALIZATION IS LIFE!
VMware’s NSX has been in the wild for almost three years and while the initial adoption was slow, of recent times there has been a calculated push to make NSX more mainstream.
