VCDX #181 Marc Huppert

Month: March 2017

Join industry leaders onstage at VMworld 2017!…

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Join industry leaders onstage at VMworld 2017! Call for Papers is open thru March 14th, submit your abstract ASAP:

Join industry leaders onstage at VMworld 2017!…

We’re looking for speakers who will inspire the VMware community. Have you integrated VMware solutions and technologies in an innovative way? Do you have a best practice or individual technical tips and tricks to recommend? Can you tell us about an amazing app that leverages VMware solutions to improve your business? If so, please join us at VMworld 2017.

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Top vBlog 2017 starting soon, make sure your…

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Top vBlog 2017 starting soon, make sure your site is included — via vSphere-land

Top vBlog 2017 starting soon, make sure your…

I’ll be kicking off Top vBlog 2017 very soon and my vLaunchPad website is the source for the blogs included in the Top vBlog voting each year so please take a moment and make sure your blog is listed. Every year I get emails from bloggers after the voting starts wanting to be added but once it starts its too late as it messes up the ballot. I’ve also archived a bunch of blogs that have not blogged in over a year in a special section, those archived blogs still have good content so I haven’t removed them but since they are not active they will not be on the Top vBlog ballot.

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vRealize Network Insight 3.3 Feature Walkthrough

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vRealize Network Insight 3.3 Feature Walkthrough — via VMware Cloud Mgmnt Blog

vRealize Network Insight 3.3 Feature Walkthrough

vRealize Network Insight (vRNI) continues to enhance the visibility and management of overlay and underlay networks. With the launch of version 3.3, a number of new features were introduced. In this blog post, I will cover four of the new features, including new event management options, user-defined event enhancements, improved NAT visibility, and new IP address space support.

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VxRail – Now with a Unified Management Experience!

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VxRail – Now with a Unified Management Experience! — via Virtual Blocks

VxRail – Now with a Unified Management Experience!

A key benefit of Hyper-Converged Infrastructure is the elimination of multiple management tools and the ability to manage compute and storage directly from the hypervisor. With approximately 80% of HCI deployments running in VMware environments, vSphere is by far the most popular hypervisor for HCI. VMware HCI is powered by vSAN, an enterprise class storage solution that is uniquely embedded in the hypervisor and vCenter, which provides unified and extensible management solution. This combination of vSphere, vSAN and vCenter offers customers both greater simplicity and better performance.

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Learn all about vRealize Log Insight in under…

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Learn all about vRealize Log Insight in under 90 minutes — via Anything Virtual and Cloudy

Learn all about vRealize Log Insight in under…

This post is aimed towards anyone who does a lot of Log Analysis. In this post I showcased the capabilities of VMware vRealize Log Insight. This will enable you to confidently utilise this tool to not only analyse the diverse logs that you can think of but also visualise the patterns and much more. So, if you are a hands on person who loves to do root cause analysis, or want to solve that nagging performance issue, then this post is for you.

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NSX-V 6.3: Control Plane Resiliency with CDO Mode

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NSX-V 6.3: Control Plane Resiliency with CDO Mode — via VMware Network Virtualization Blog

NSX-V 6.3: Control Plane Resiliency with CDO Mode

NSX-V 6.3, released last month, introduced many new features. In my last blog post, NSX-V 6.3: Cross-VC NSX Security Enhancements, I discussed several new Cross-VC NSX security features. In this post I’ll discuss another new feature called Controller Disconnected Operation (CDO) mode which provides additional resiliency for the NSX control plane.

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vRealize Network Insight 3.3 Evolves Security…

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vRealize Network Insight 3.3 Evolves Security and Network Management for the Software Defined Data Center

vRealize Network Insight 3.3 Evolves Security…

Download vRealize Network Insight 3.3 for Micro-Segmentation Planning, 360 network visibility and troubleshooting and NSX day 2 operations

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Getting More Out of vSAN – Webcast Series…

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Getting More Out of vSAN – Webcast Series coming to EMEA — via CormacHogan.com

Getting More Out of vSAN – Webcast Series…

Earlier this year, our colleagues in the US kicked off the “Getting More Out of vSAN” webcast series. We are pleased to be able to replicate this initiative in EMEA. We now have 2 webcast sessions lined up for the month of March:

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Cool tool update: RVTools 3.9.2

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Cool tool update: RVTools 3.9.2 — via Yellow Bricks

Cool tool update: RVTools 3.9.2

It has been a year since version 3.8, but finally here it is… RVTools 3.9. Rob de Vey has been developing this tool since early 2008 and over 650k copies have been downloaded so far. I understand why, as it is a very easy to use tool that produces a lot of great information. On top of everything it was already providing, Rob introduced the following in version 3.9:

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Use your VCP-DCV Certification to fast track to…

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Use your VCP-DCV Certification to fast track to Network Virtualization

Use your VCP-DCV Certification to fast track to…

As a vSphere VCP-DCV holder, you are perfectly positioned to be at the forefront of the network virtualization revolution. This is an unique opportunity to fast track your skills and certification to become an expert across multiple technologies.

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An Open Request for Feedback – vSphere…

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An Open Request for Feedback – vSphere Configuration Management with Vester — via Wahl Network

An Open Request for Feedback – vSphere…

Back at VMworld 2016 US, I co-presented a session entitled “Enforcing a vSphere Cluster Design with PowerCLI Automation – INF8036” with VMware’s Chief Technologist, Duncan Epping. The centerpiece of this deck was built around an open source project named Vester.

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Recovery Testing and SRM pt 2 – Alternatives

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Recovery Testing and SRM pt 2 – Alternatives — via Virtual Blocks

Recovery Testing and SRM pt 2 – Alternatives

The previous post in this series discussed the recovery plan test process built into SRM. In this post I’ll talk about some alternative methods of testing SRM recovery plans as well as recommendations around SRM and testing.

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vSpeaking Podcast Episode 37: Storage and…

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vSpeaking Podcast Episode 37: Storage and Availability with Yanbing Li — via Virtual Blocks

vSpeaking Podcast Episode 37: Storage and…

A few weeks ago, VMware reported solid fourth quarter earnings of $441 million, or $1.04 a share, on revenue of $2.03 billion, up 9 percent from a year ago. Non-GAAP earnings were $1.43 a share. CEO Pat Gelsinger said VMware’s fourth quarter was “one of the most balanced quarters for VMware in years.” One of the key contributors to VMware’s success this quarter was VMware’s flagship SDS solution vSAN. This week we were fortunate enough to have Senior VP and GM of the Storage and Availability Business Unit Yanbing LI on to discuss Q4 results and her thoughts on what to expect in FY 2018.

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Top 5 Q&A: Getting More out of vSAN – Session 2

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Top 5 Q&A: Getting More out of vSAN – Session 2 — via Virtual Blocks

Top 5 Q&A: Getting More out of vSAN – Session 2

In this post, we recap Getting More Out of vSAN Session 2: Server & Network Hardware Design Guide. Getting More Out of vSAN is an ongoing technical webcast series led by vSAN experts. The webcasts are unique because of the interactive, live Q&A session at the end, where you can provide feedback and get your questions answered live by the vSAN product team!

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Automating VVol DR with Power CLI 6.5

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Automating VVol DR with Power CLI 6.5 — via Virtual Blocks

Automating VVol DR with Power CLI 6.5

One of my favorite updates in vSphere 6.5 is the support for array-based replication with Virtual Volumes (VVols). Now with VASA 3.0 storage vendors have the ability to configure array-based replication into their VASA providers allowing users to preconfigure VM Storage Policies that include replicating VMs for Disaster Recovery. Support for Array-based replication was by far biggest request we have seen from customers interested in using VVols See What’s new in Virtual Volumes 2.0 for a closer look at how this works.

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Cross vCenter VM Mobility – CLI – Another cool…

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Cross vCenter VM Mobility – CLI – Another cool fling — via Enterprise Daddy

Cross vCenter VM Mobility – CLI – Another cool…

VMware Flings team released the Cross vCenter Mobility Tool yesterday. Cross vCenter VM Mobility — CLI is a command line interface (CLI) tool that can be used to migrate or clone a VM from one host to another host managed by a linked or isolated vCenter (VC) instance.

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Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop 7.12 on VMware…

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Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop 7.12 on VMware vSAN 6.5 All-Flash — via Virtual Blocks

Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop 7.12 on VMware…

Recently we published the Reference Architecture for Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop 7.12 on vSAN 6.5 all-flash. Since I spent that past few months testing, validating, and writing the RA, I just wanted to highlight some aspects of the RA for our customers and partners.

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