PowerShell: Deploying vCenter High Availability…

PowerShell: Deploying vCenter High Availability in Advanced Mode

PowerShell: Deploying vCenter High Availability…

With the release of vSphere 6.5, VMware upped the game for vCenter High Availability (vCHA) and introduced an active/passive/witness cluster setup to provide a failover cluster for vCenter Server A…


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Mixed version of ESXi hosts in the vSphere…

Mixed version of ESXi hosts in the vSphere cluster?

Mixed version of ESXi hosts in the vSphere…

I had a discussion with my colleague about mixed version of ESXi hosts. Our customer needed to migrate their vSphere environment from version 5.1 (caused of End of Support Life) to the latest version supported on their physical infrastructure. As they did not build a cluster based on identical physical servers and two of servers are not supported… Read More »


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VCSA 6.5 Password Expires in X days…

VCSA 6.5 Password Expires in X days Notification – How to change?

VCSA 6.5 Password Expires in X days…

If you don’t change the default VMware vCSA password policy for an administrator within the vSphere.local domain, you will get a notification 30 days before the password expires. This is not the root password of the VCSA appliance. We wrote how to reset root password for VCSA appliance here. (Post include a detailed video too). […] Read the full post VCSA 6.5 Password Expires in X days Notification – How to change? at ESX Virtualization .


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Around the World with VCAPs

Around the World with VCAPs

Around the World with VCAPs

Infographic Update Alert! Given the popularity of last year’s “Where in the World are VCAPs?” infographic, we decided to check out how things look in 2017. Unsurprisingly, VCAPs are everywhere! It’s exciting to see our VCAP community grow and evolve each year! Which country do you represent? The post Around the World with VCAPs appeared first on VMware Education & Certification .


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VMware Fun Facts 2017

VMware Fun Facts 2017

VMware Fun Facts 2017

VMware started with 5 people in 1998 and now has over 20,000 people. Take a quick tour of VMware’s history with this fun facts animation. Learn more about life at VMware: https://careers.vmware.com/ http://facebook.com/vmwarecareers http://twitter.com/vmwarecareers http://instagram.com/vmwarecareers https://www.linkedin.com/company-beta/2988/life/


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Part 8 – vROps 6.6 : Creating queries with…

Part 8 – vROps 6.6 : Creating queries with Metrics & properties using Metric Groups

Part 8 – vROps 6.6 : Creating queries with…

“Troubleshooting is an Art and not Science” I remember this statement from the time I started my career as a desktop support engineer. Fast forward 14 years to today’s date and we all know… Click on the title to continue reading the post..


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New KB articles published for week ending 24th…

New KB articles published for week ending 24th June 2017

New KB articles published for week ending 24th…

vSphere ESXi “Unable to set the network parameters\n” error when deploying VCSA 6.5 Date Published: 2017/06/20 Cross-vCenter NFC Actions with offline Storage Migrations or Cloning and ‘Netstack’ with ‘TCP/IP Stack’ Date Published: 2017/06/19 ESXi loses network connectivity, and/or virtual machines experience network problems Date Published: 2017/06/19 Palo Alto Networks 7.1.9 integration with NSX 6.2.4 and […] The post New KB articles published for week ending 24th June 2017 appeared first on…Read More


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Part 7 – vROps 6.6 : Virtual Machine Inventory…

Part 7 – vROps 6.6 : Virtual Machine Inventory Summary Report

Part 7 – vROps 6.6 : Virtual Machine Inventory…

Welcome back to the what’s new series for vRealize Operations Manager 6.6. While in the previous parts, we have been talking about the dashboards, with this post, I do want to highlight some of the… Click on the title to continue reading the post..


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Review of vRealize Operations (vROps) by a…

Review of vRealize Operations (vROps) by a Consultant

Review of vRealize Operations (vROps) by a…

In a post entitled “Full IT Stack Monitoring using vRealize…”, Saurabh Chandratre writes: Valuable Features: vRealize Operations Manager (vROps): VMware’s vRealize Operations Manager (vROps) is an important component of the vRealize… #B2Breviews


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vRealize Log Insight – Tracking SSH Logins to…

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vRealize Log Insight – Tracking SSH Logins to…

Here is an example of a really simple but cool query that can be setup in vRealize Log Insight to track accepted and failed SSH logins to Edge devices.


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Changing the SSH Login Banner on a NSX Edge Device

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Changing the SSH Login Banner on a NSX Edge Device

Using the NSX API you can set your own SSH login banner. Simply connect using your API client of choice in my example I used postmon and change the following…Read More


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Careful with firmware patching in a vSAN Cluster!

Careful with firmware patching in a vSAN Cluster!

Careful with firmware patching in a vSAN Cluster!

So I had some time recently to update my lab. I am a long-time user of the Dell OpenManage Integration for vCenter. It has gotten a little flaky in the last while so I have to use it to patch … Read more ›


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Announcing the New VMware Solution Exchange…

Announcing the New VMware Solution Exchange Marketplace

Announcing the New VMware Solution Exchange…

We are pleased to announce the launch of our new VMware Solution Exchange Marketplace! The new marketplace is now accessible through the solutionexchange.vmware.com URL as well as the new marketplace.vmware.com URL. Our goal with this new marketplace is to provide our customers and partners an easy, fast, reliable, and more effective way to learn about partner products that integrate […] The post Announcing the New VMware Solution Exchange Marketplace appeared first on VMware Tech Alliances…Read More


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Application Workload Guidance and Design for…

Application Workload Guidance and Design for Virtualized SAP S/4HANA® on vSphere (Part 4/4)

Application Workload Guidance and Design for…

In part 1 we introduced the concept of SAP HANA Application Workload guidance and using example business requirements to come up with a workload and vSphere cluster design for the SAP environment. In part 2 we looked at storage, network and security design for the proposed customer environment. In part 3 we looked at monitoring & management, backup/recovery and disaster recovery […] The post Application Workload Guidance and Design for Virtualized SAP S/4HANA® on vSphere (Part 4/4) appeared…Read More


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First Look at AWS Management Portal for vCenter…

First Look at AWS Management Portal for vCenter Part 2: Administration

First Look at AWS Management Portal for vCenter…

In part 1 of the series we looked at the Management Portal deployment. Let’s move on to an overview of the portal functionality. Portal Dashboard Once you open the portal you are asked to pick your region (region preferences can later be changed only from Web Client). You then proceed to the dashboard where you can […]


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Create “VM Info” Dashboard | vrealize on…

Create “VM Info” Dashboard | vrealize on WordPress.com

Create “VM Info” Dashboard | vrealize on…

With growing virtualization one major challenge which many customer experience is how to segregate if a performance issues is caused due to infrastructure un-availability or resource contention. Such situation comes when application team complains about poor performance of their server (VMs) and we start our investigations. In such situation the first landing platform for any administrator will…Read More


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Available for pre order – Storage Design and…

Available for pre order – Storage Design and Implementation in vSphere 6

Available for pre order – Storage Design and…

Mostafa Khalil haqs been working for two years on this new book which will be released before the VMworld 2017. You can pre-order Storage Design and Implementation in vSphere 6: A Technology Deep Dive here. Planning and implementing Fibre Channel, FCoE, and iSCSI storage in vSphere virtualized environments Implementing vSphere Pluggable Storage Architecture native multipathing, SATP, PSP, plug-ins, rules, registration, and more Working with Active/Passive and Pseudo-Active/Active ALUA SCSI-3…Read More


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