VCDX #181 Marc Huppert

Month: August 2017

New Release: VMware PowerCLI 6.5.2

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New Release: VMware PowerCLI 6.5.2

New Release: VMware PowerCLI 6.5.2

The past couple releases have introduced some new and exciting modernizations for PowerCLI. We’ve moved from Snapins to Modules, leaving behind registry settings and the need for an installer and making packaging much easier. We then introduced you to PowerCLI installation through the Microsoft PowerShell Gallery, making installation and updates a single command. All of […] The post New Release: VMware PowerCLI 6.5.2 appeared first on VMware PowerCLI Blog .

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Configure DNS on VMware NSX Edge | Let’s v4Real

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Configure DNS on VMware NSX Edge | Let’s v4Real

A NSX edge can be used to relay name resolution requests from clients to external DNS servers. As the NSX relay these requests, it caches the response from the DNS server. In this blog post, I will show you how to configure the DNS servers on the NSX edge. First, navigate the Networking & Security….Read More

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Unattended Deployment and Configuration of OVA…

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Unattended Deployment and Configuration of OVA – The Virtualist

Unattended Deployment and Configuration of OVA…

Good Sys Admin is the lazy Sys Admin. Step by step IT automation is making its way in our daily activities and I like to use it as much as possible. Saving time and reducing human errors are obvious advantages, but I also like to watch how the magic happens. … Continue reading

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VVol Test-Failover with Power CLI 6.5.1

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VVol Test-Failover with Power CLI 6.5.1

VVol Test-Failover with Power CLI 6.5.1

VMware introduced support for array-based replication of Virtual Volumes (VVols) as part of vSphere 6.5. This new ability provides users with array-based BC/DR capabilities that can be managed via VMware’s Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM) system that is built into vSphere. To support VVol replication operations today, there is no native integration with automation products such The post VVol Test-Failover with Power CLI 6.5.1 appeared first on Virtual Blocks .

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Upgrade – VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.5

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Upgrade – VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.5

Upgrade – VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.5

In this post, we will perform the upgrading from vCenter 6.0 U3 to 6.5 U1. We highly suggest that check VMware Product Interoperability Matrices before any VMware products upgrade. Accroding to Interoperability Matrices, this upgrade path is supported. Firstly you need to … Continue reading →

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vRealize Operations 6.6 – DRS and Workload…

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vRealize Operations 6.6 – DRS and Workload Placement Explained

vRealize Operations 6.6 – DRS and Workload…

http://bit.ly/2uiPhbK VMware Technical Account Manager Matt Bradford explains how vRealize Operations Manager 6.6 integrates with vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) for a powerful solution to protect VM availability and performance Service Level Agreements.

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vCenter Server and Platform Services Controller…

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vCenter Server and Platform Services Controller 6.5 High Availability

vCenter Server and Platform Services Controller…

In this video we discuss high availability for the Platform Services Controller which includes how the load balancer works for this solution. Then we go into native vCenter Server high availability (VCHA) and how it can be used to protect vCenter Server when embedded and external.

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Deploying a new HyTrust KMS on vSphere 6.5

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Deploying a new HyTrust KMS on vSphere 6.5

Deploying a new HyTrust KMS on vSphere 6.5

Many regular readers will be aware of new encryption features added recently to VMware’s portfolio, such as vSAN data-at-reset encryption and vSphere VM encryption in vSphere 6.5. I had to return to a configuration task that I hadn’t done in a while, which was the deployment of a new Key Management Server (KMS) on my […] The post Deploying a new HyTrust KMS on vSphere 6.5 appeared first on CormacHogan.com .

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Ready Bundle for Virtualization Rolls Out of…

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Ready Bundle for Virtualization Rolls Out of The Garage

Ready Bundle for Virtualization Rolls Out of…

Dell Enterprise and end user computing IT best practices and solutions: servers, storage, networking, virtualization, cloud computing, systems management, operating systems, software, and more.

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How to determine your NVMe SSD firmware on a…

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How to determine your NVMe SSD firmware on a VMware ESXi server

How to determine your NVMe SSD firmware on a…

Keeping this one short-and-simple, to really encourage you to visit the source article to read through details and tips found at:New ESXCLI Commands in vSphere 6.5 Nov 19 2016 by Florian Grehl at Virten.net If you’re wondering if your NVMe drive might need a firmware update, and you’re running VMware ESXi Hypervisor, this article is for you. Many affordable, consumer market SSDs only make Windows or Mac utilities for firmware level read-outs and updates, such as Samsung Magician. This article…Read More

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Blast Extreme Display Protocol in View Virtual…

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Blast Extreme Display Protocol in View Virtual Desktops in Horizon 7

Blast Extreme Display Protocol in View Virtual…

Blast Extreme is included with the View component of VMware Horizon 7. This display protocol is required for HTML access to View desktops and for Linux virtual desktops, and it is the recommended choice with Horizon Clients. Blast Extreme has feature and performance parity with the PCoIP display protocol. This paper provides a technical description of Blast Extreme, including how to deploy it, its benefits, and its limitations.

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How to Deploy Photon OS and vSphere Integrated…

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How to Deploy Photon OS and vSphere Integrated Containers

How to Deploy Photon OS and vSphere Integrated…

VMware has been performing lot of work around containers, container management and the complete area of cloud native applications. Let us discuss two projects here: ● Photon OS (It is a minimal Lin…Read More

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vSphere SRM 6.X Install and configure – Part 5…

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vSphere SRM 6.X Install and configure – Part 5 – Creating recovery plan and testing

vSphere SRM 6.X Install and configure – Part 5…

Now that we’ve installed SRM in our lab environment and followed the SRM configuration tasks, we need to complete the last and most important step by creating a recovery plan and testing our …Read More

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vSphere SRM 6.X Install and configure – Part 4…

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vSphere SRM 6.X Install and configure – Part 4 – Configure Protection group

vSphere SRM 6.X Install and configure – Part 4…

In the previous posts we Installed SRM in our lab environment, we paired the two sites, we configured Inventory mappings and configured placeholder datastore. In this post we will continue with the…Read More

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vSphere SRM 6.X Install and configure – Part 3…

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vSphere SRM 6.X Install and configure – Part 3 – Configure Placeholder datastore

vSphere SRM 6.X Install and configure – Part 3…

In the previous post we Installed SRM in our lab environment and we paired the two sites and configured Inventory mappings. In this post we will continue with the configuration, if you look at VMwa…Read More

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