VCDX #181 Marc Huppert

Month: June 2017

Test Driving macOS 10.13 High Sierra on VMware…

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Test Driving macOS 10.13 High Sierra on VMware Fusion 8.5.7

Test Driving macOS 10.13 High Sierra on VMware…

Last week’s WWDC marked another annual iteration of our favourite operating system, macOS. This year, moving from Sierra to High Sierra, we see a number of great reasons to upgrade when it’s released in the fall: Metal 2 HEVC H.265 Support APFS Siri updates Safari Updates Full release notes can be found over at thedeveloper.apple.comrelease […] The post Test Driving macOS 10.13 High Sierra on VMware Fusion 8.5.7 appeared first on VMware Fusion Blog.

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Organizing the Bigger Picture: Custom Groups in…

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Organizing the Bigger Picture: Custom Groups in vROps

Organizing the Bigger Picture: Custom Groups in…

By: Josh Williams When it comes to Blue Medora Management Packs for vRealize Operations (vROps), one of the major problems we face is grouping similar objects in our product library. Thus far, we’ve only been able to focus on full-stack views–i.e., your prototypical parent to child relationships. For example, take our SQL Server Management The post Organizing the Bigger Picture: Custom Groups in vROps appeared first on VMware Cloud Management .

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A Recipe for VMware vSAN as Persistent Storage…

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A Recipe for VMware vSAN as Persistent Storage for MongoDB in Containers

A Recipe for VMware vSAN as Persistent Storage…

If you have landed on this blog, you most likely do not need to be convinced that VMware vSAN as persistent storage for MondgoDB in containers is a good idea. If you landed here accidentally, let us give you a little background information. MongoDB, a popular NoSQL document store database used by thousands of enterprises The post A Recipe for VMware vSAN as Persistent Storage for MongoDB in Containers appeared first on Virtual Blocks .

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Fix – Verify if management interface (NIC0) is…

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Fix – Verify if management interface (NIC0) is configured correctly and is reachable – Default Reasoning

Fix – Verify if management interface (NIC0) is…

When configuring the vCenter Server HA in my previous post, I encountered the following error when trying to deploy vCenter HA cluster. Failed to get management network information. Verify if management interface (NIC0) is configured correctly and is reachable. After some digging on the VMware knowledge base and checking the VMTN community forum, I’ve found a fix. The issue occurs when there is a misconfiguration of the vCenter Server Appliance name in the systemname_info.json file. To fix…Read More

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Virtual machine with OS Server 2008 R2 “Bootmgr…

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Virtual machine with OS Server 2008 R2 “Bootmgr is missing” error

Virtual machine with OS Server 2008 R2 “Bootmgr…

A virtual machine with operating system 2008 R2 shows the following error during startup: „BOOTMGR is missing Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart“ It is relatively easy to fix this error – here is a short how-to. This article was published about… Read more Der Beitrag Virtual machine with OS Server 2008 R2 “Bootmgr is missing” error erschien zuerst auf All about virtualization .

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Introducing vSphere Virtual Volumes on the…

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Introducing vSphere Virtual Volumes on the FlashArray

Introducing vSphere Virtual Volumes on the…

This is a blog post I have been waiting to write for quite some time. I cannot even remember exactly how long ago I saw Satyam Vaghani present on this as a concept at VMworld. Back when the concept of what is now called a protocol endpoint (more on that later) was called an I/O Demultiplexer. A mouthful … Continue reading Introducing vSphere Virtual Volumes on the FlashArray →

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Announcing VMware vRealize Log Insight 4.5…

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Announcing VMware vRealize Log Insight 4.5 release – What’s New

Announcing VMware vRealize Log Insight 4.5…

We’re pleased to announce the new release of vRealize Log Insight 4.5. You can download the new release here. Full 360-Degree Log Integration with vRealize Operations Full Integration in-context within vRealize Operations Direct launch into Log Insight Dashboard Direct launch into Log Insight Interactive Analytics mode Object auto-initiated log management vRealize Operations Alerts auto-initiated log management Customers The post Announcing VMware vRealize Log Insight 4.5 release – What’s New…Read More

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Automated Workload Balance

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Automated Workload Balance

Automated Workload Balance

Welcome to your lights-out datacenter! With vRealize Operation 6.6 automated workload balance is easier and more controllable than ever. This latest release of vRealize Operation gives you the ability to balance workloads across clusters and datastores, simple controls to govern how much balance you want based on your business needs, three ways to activate it The post Automated Workload Balance appeared first on VMware Cloud Management .

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VCAP6-DCV Design Journey – Objective 1.1 –…

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VCAP6-DCV Design Journey – Objective 1.1 – Gather and analyze business requirements

VCAP6-DCV Design Journey – Objective 1.1 –…

This post is intended to address the VCAP design objective around gathering and analyzing business requirements. At the time of writing, the required ‘Skills and Abilities’ listed by VMware for this topic are: Associate a stakeholder with the information that needs to be collected. Utilize inventory and assessment data from a current environment to define […]

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Upgrade NSX Manager Version |…

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Upgrade NSX Manager Version |…

I’ve been getting into a bit of NSX lately and have a new fondness for virtual networking of which previously I knew a little about NSX and its use cases, but I had not spent time with deploying it and making some use of it. That being said, I am not a networking guy, but…Read More

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VM Security Tags with NSX Firewall | ESXsi on…

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VM Security Tags with NSX Firewall | ESXsi on…

This post will walk through virtual machine security tags; how we can create tags, automatically add virtual machines with tags to a specific security group, and build associated NSX firewall rules. As a bonus we’ll also apply a security tag to a vRA blueprint, allowing vRA provisioned machines to automatically receive a security tag and…

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VCDX181.com – Latest #HomeLab #HomeDC story…

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VCDX181.com – Latest #HomeLab #HomeDC story Stage XXIV: Infrastructure Upgrades finished

VCDX181.com – Latest #HomeLab #HomeDC story…

I completed my latest HomeLab journey: Stage XXIV: Infrastructure Upgrades This story is split into two sections: PDUs and Internet Connection

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Introducing Alexa to a few more VMware APIs

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Introducing Alexa to a few more VMware APIs

Introducing Alexa to a few more VMware APIs

Over the weekend, while taking a break from putting together some furniture as it was my time for my daughters nap, I got that the chance to explore and create a new Alexa Skill which integrates with a few of VMware’s APIs. This has been something I wanted to try out for some time but have not […]

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vSAN 6.6 RVC Guide Part 3 – Object Management

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vSAN 6.6 RVC Guide Part 3 – Object Management

vSAN 6.6 RVC Guide Part 3 – Object Management

The “vSAN 6.6 RVC Guide” series explains how to manage your VMware Virtual SAN environment with the Ruby vSphere Console. RVC is an interactive command line tool to control and automate your platform. If you are new to RVC, make sure … Read more »

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