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Month: December 2017

Happy 10th Birthday Yellow-Bricks.com

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Happy 10th Birthday Yellow-Bricks.com

Happy 10th Birthday Yellow-Bricks.com

Advertise here with BSA Just wanted to share with all of you the fact that this week marks the 10th anniversary of Yellow-Bricks.com. Crazy thinking back about how it all started, and what it turned in to. Thanks everyone for taking the time to read and comment on many of the articles over the years. Those wondering what’s next, […] ” Happy 10th Birthday Yellow-Bricks.com ” originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter – @DuncanYB.

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New VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2017-0021

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New VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2017-0021

New VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2017-0021

Today VMware has released the following new security advisory: “VMSA-2017-0021 – VMware ESXi, vCenter Server Appliance, Workstation and Fusion updates address multiple security vulnerabilities” This documents the remediation of four Important severity issues (CVE-2017-4933, CVE-2017-4940, CVE-2017-4941, and CVE-2017-4943). These issues affect VMware ESXi, VMware Workstation, VMware Fusion and VMware vCenter Server Appliance. Issues (a) CVE-2017-4941 […] The post New VMware Security Advisory…Read More

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How to Enable Compute Accelerators on vSphere…

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How to Enable Compute Accelerators on vSphere 6.5 for Machine Learning and Other HPC Workloads

How to Enable Compute Accelerators on vSphere…

As our CTO Ray O’Farrell recently mentioned, VMware is committed to helping customers build intelligent infrastructure, which includes the ability to take advantage of Machine Learning within their private and hybrid cloud environments. As part of delivering this vision, the Office of the CTO collaborates with customers and with VMware R&D teams to ensure the …

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How to Deploy Log Insight with less than 500GB…

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How to Deploy Log Insight with less than 500GB of Storage

How to Deploy Log Insight with less than 500GB…

When deploying Log Insight, you have the option of selecting various deployment sizes. By default, Log Insight defaults to small. The best practice for production workloads is to deploy at least medium and whenever possible large. You will notice that by default and even with the larger deployment sizes that Log Insight allocates just over […] The post How to Deploy Log Insight with less than 500GB of Storage appeared first on SFlanders.net by Steve Flanders .

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Access New vSAN Partner Marketing Kits

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Access New vSAN Partner Marketing Kits

Access New vSAN Partner Marketing Kits

Designed to help you drive awareness and generate leads for vSAN, these online marketing kits (found in the ‘Market’ section) include campaign assets, templates, collateral plus recommendations on campaign execution. Plus view this Marketing Powerpack; it provides great guidance on the tools available. The post Access New vSAN Partner Marketing Kits appeared first on Partner News .

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vSAN sparse swap files

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vSAN sparse swap files | virtual graveyard

vSAN sparse swap files

With vSAN 6.2 you can save a lot of capacity if you use the new feature called “sparse VM swap object”. It will deploy the swap file of every VM store in vSAN as sparse. So you are able to safe nearly all of your VMs RAM inside the vSAN datastore. Setup: Use SSH/Putty to…Read More

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Upgrading ESXi environment with PowerCLI

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Upgrading ESXi environment with PowerCLI

Upgrading ESXi environment with PowerCLI

A new ESXi 6.5 patch came out today: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2151104 And I wanted to upgrade my whole lab environment to it and I haven’t set up auto-deploy or update manager yet (I plan to, making all of this much easier to manage). So I wrote a quick and dirty PowerCLI script that updates to the latest … Continue reading Upgrading ESXi environment with PowerCLI →

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You Can’t Trust Microsoft’s Azure TCO Calculator

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You Can’t Trust Microsoft’s Azure TCO Calculator

You Can’t Trust Microsoft’s Azure TCO Calculator

Last month, Microsoft posted an online “Azure TCO Calculator” that supposedly compares the cost of on-premises infrastructure, based on VMware vSphere, with the cost of running the same workloads in the Azure public cloud. Here at VMware, we pay a lot of attention to the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of on-premises vSphere versus public […] The post You Can’t Trust Microsoft’s Azure TCO Calculator appeared first on Virtual Reality .

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Applications Health dashboard

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Applications Health dashboard – virtual red dot

Applications Health dashboard

This post is part of Operationalize Your World post. Do read it first to get the context. While all production applications are important, some are definitely more important than others. You monitor these critical applications 24 x 7, and want to be ahead of your customers in detecting their health. There are 3 parts that make up Health …Read More

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NSX Controller Deployment Failed: Waiting for…

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NSX Controller Deployment Failed: Waiting for VC Lease

NSX Controller Deployment Failed: Waiting for…

I was recently rolling out the base install of VMware NSX in my lab, where I ran in to a controller deployment issue. The lab is running NestedESXi, and I have two ‘sites’ that are nest…Read More

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Network Scanners Can Crash vRealize Operations…

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Network Scanners Can Crash vRealize Operations Manager Tomcat Service On Large Clusters | CaptainvOPS

Network Scanners Can Crash vRealize Operations…

If network scanners are deployed in your production environments, it may be necessary to white-list the vROps nodes, as the network scanners can bring the tomcat service to its’ knees, especially on active vROps clusters. In my case the network scanner was causing tomcat to crash, so when users would attempt to access the main…Read More

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NST-T 2.0 Lab Build: Logical Router Configuration

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NST-T 2.0 Lab Build: Logical Router Configuration

NST-T 2.0 Lab Build: Logical Router Configuration

Disclaimer! I am learning NSX-T, part of my learning is to deploy in my lab – if I contradict the official docs then go with the docs! Lab Environment This NSX-T lab environment is built as a…Read More

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Log Insight: Root Cause Example

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Log Insight: Root Cause Example

Log Insight: Root Cause Example

I often get asked for specific examples on how Log Insight is / can be used to root cause an issue. I recently had an issue in my homelab that impacted my vCenter. In this post, I will cover the value Log Insight provided and how I was able to reach a root cause. Read […] The post Log Insight: Root Cause Example appeared first on SFlanders.net by Steve Flanders .

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New KB articles published for week ending 17th…

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New KB articles published for week ending 17th December 2017

New KB articles published for week ending 17th…

VMware vSphere ESXi vSAN performance graphs are empty Date Published: 2017/12/15 Bootbank mounts to /tmp folder and configuration lost when booting from qfle3f device Date Published: 2017/12/11 VMware NSX for vSphere Upgrade to NSX for vSphere 6.3.5 may fail in an environment using CA certificates Date Published: 2017/12/13 VM under DFW loses network connectivity after […] The post New KB articles published for week ending 17th December 2017 appeared first on Support Insider .

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Configured scratch location issues after…

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Configured scratch location issues after upgrade – See what others are doing for ESXi 6.5 on #VMTN

Configured scratch location issues after…

My configured scratch location for some reason doesn’t work after upgrading to ESXi 6.5. I set up parameter ScratchConfig.ConfiguredScratchLocation to a persistent storage. The folder exists and worked before the upgrade.

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