Oct Build and macOS High Sierra 10.13 – View a…

Oct Build and macOS High Sierra 10.13 – View a solution for ESXi 6.5 on #VMTN

Oct Build and macOS High Sierra 10.13 – View a…

Has anyone been able to use High Sierra on 6.5update1 w/ all patches to date? Upgrades of vms from 10.12 to 10.13 result in an error in booting represented by a circle with a cross through it.


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Preventing selection of certain datastores with SPBM

Preventing selection of certain datastores with…

One of the great things about presenting at VMware User Group meetings is actually talking to customers and finding out about what their pain points are, and how VMware can improve on our products and features. At the most recent VMUG I attended (in Poland), I was asked a question about storage policies, and if […] The post Preventing selection of certain datastores with SPBM appeared first on CormacHogan.com .


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New Capacity Dashboards in VMware vRealize…

New Capacity Dashboards in VMware vRealize Operations 6.6 – David Davis on vROps Post #44

New Capacity Dashboards in VMware vRealize…

VMware vRealize Operations 6.6 offers many new features. Recently I’ve been covering many of these features in this blog series such as my last two posts – the 5 Must Knows of Automated Workload Balancing with vRealize Operations and the Top 7 Dashboards in vRealize Operations 6.6. In this post, we’ll specifically cover the new Capacity Dashboards in vRealize Operations 6.6. The post New Capacity Dashboards in VMware vRealize Operations 6.6 – David Davis on vROps Post #44 appeared first on…Read More


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Abstract, Automate & Secure — From Data Center…

Abstract, Automate & Secure — From Data Center to Cloud to Edge

Abstract, Automate & Secure — From Data Center…

It feels like only yesterday when we started our journey into networking at VMware. Even from the early beginnings in 2011, it became clear to some of us that the abstraction and operations model of virtualization for compute and memory, which completely transformed the modern data center, was something we needed to extend to networking. We understood that that a network based on software and abstraction in the long run would extend beyond our customers’ data centers to public clouds and ultimately to the Edge.


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Oracle RAC on VMware Cloud on Amazon AWS

Oracle RAC on VMware Cloud on Amazon AWS

Oracle RAC on VMware Cloud on Amazon AWS

Summary With the recent launch of the VMware Cloud on AWS Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) from VMware, many Business Critical Application (BCA) workloads that were previously difficult to deploy in the cloud no longer require significant platform modifications. This post describes a Better Together demonstration VMware and AWS presented at VMworld 2017 using an […] The post Oracle RAC on VMware Cloud on Amazon AWS appeared first on Virtualize Business Critical Applications .


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vSAN Operations: Add a Host or Fault Domain for Maintenance

vSAN Operations: Add a Host or Fault Domain for…

Preparing a host for maintenance is quite simple in a vSphere cluster. With vSphere DRS enabled, you click a host in the vSphere Web Client, select Maintenance Mode, and click Enter Maintenance Mode. vSphere automatically migrates running virtual machines off of the host and places the host in maintenance mode. This effectively removes access to The post vSAN Operations: Add a Host or Fault Domain for Maintenance appeared first on Virtual Blocks .


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Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure and VMware…

Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure and VMware User Environment Manager – Better Together

Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure and VMware…

Horizon Cloud Service on Microsoft Azure Word is spreading quickly about the new Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure offering. We are excited about the integration with VMware Workspace ONE, streamlined deployment model, and rich set of client features that VMware Horizon solutions are known for. See the Technical Insights about Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure […] The post Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure and VMware User Environment Manager – Better Together appeared first on VMware End-User…Read More


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Chrome users beware: A new ‘Catch-All’…

Chrome users beware: A new ‘Catch-All’ extension could steal everything you type

Chrome users beware: A new ‘Catch-All’…

A malicious Chrome extension is spreading in Brazil, and it’s capable of stealing everything typed inside a browser window. Here’s what to look out for before it spreads.


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Free vSphere 6.5 Host Resources Deep Dive E-Book

Free vSphere 6.5 Host Resources Deep Dive E-Book

Free vSphere 6.5 Host Resources Deep Dive E-Book

In June of this year, Niels and I published the vSphere 6.5 Host Resources Deep Dive, and the community was buzzing. Twitter exploded, and many community members provided rave reviews. This excitement caught Rubriks attention, and they decided to support the community by giving away 2000 free copies of the printed version at VMworld. The […] The post Free vSphere 6.5 Host Resources Deep Dive E-Book appeared first on frankdenneman.nl .


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vCenter High Availability Deployment and…

vCenter High Availability Deployment and Testing in my Home Lab

vCenter High Availability Deployment and…

Since I upgraded my home lab to vSphere 6.5 I wanted to test the vCenter high availably feature. In this post we will discuss vCenter High Availability (VCHA) deployment (step by step installation…Read More


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[PowerCLI]: Add Local Administrator Account on…

[PowerCLI]: Add Local Administrator Account on ESXi

[PowerCLI]: Add Local Administrator Account on…

Add Local Administrator Account on ESXi via PowerCLI The is some reason to have local user on ESXi servers even when there is vCenter server for management such as vCenter is inaccessible. You can use root user for doing operations on ESXi directly but some times, you have to ask someone to do the operations […] The post [PowerCLI]: Add Local Administrator Account on ESXi appeared first on Davoud Teimouri .


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How do you use VMware replication for disaster…

How do you use VMware replication for disaster recovery?

How do you use VMware replication for disaster…

Admins can protect their data centers from disaster by replicating them to another location with vSphere Replication, which supports replication across sites and clusters.


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Running Enterprise Applications on vSphere |…

Running Enterprise Applications on vSphere | vrealize on WordPress.com

Running Enterprise Applications on vSphere |…

There are plenty of misconceptions while moving the workload from Physical to Virtual world. Customer sometimes assume that while virtualizing their infrastructure concepts applicatiob behavior may change – which is not the real case. Recently I was working on one engagement with one of VMware’s large customer and they are planning to virtualize their some…Read More


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