VCDX #181 Marc Huppert

Month: January 2021

TGI Kubernetes 141: CDK8s

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TGI Kubernetes 141: CDK8s

TGI Kubernetes 141: CDK8s

Come hang out with Joe as he does a bit of hands on hacking of Kubernetes and related topics. Some of this will be Joe talking about the things he knows. Some of this will be Joe exploring something new with the audience. Come join the fun, ask questions, comment, and participate in the live chat! This week we are going to explore CDK8s (https://cdk8s.io/). This is the Cloud Development Kit for Kubernetes made by our friends over at AWS. It is a set of libraries (primarily typescript) for generating Kubernetes config/yaml. Joe doesn’t know typescript so this should be fun…Read More

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NSX-T Architecture in vSphere with Tanzu – Part…

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NSX-T Architecture in vSphere with Tanzu – Part 2 – MultiSupervisor Shared T0 vs…

NSX-T Architecture in vSphere with Tanzu – Part…

Welcome back!!! We are now at Part two of the blog series on NSX-T architecture in vSphere with Tanzu. In this part, we will walk through the NSX-T architecture at scale of supervisor (workload) clusters and TKG clusters. We will deploy multiple supervisor clusters and namespaces and look […]

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Guest Post: Maximize SD-WAN Performance with…

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Guest Post: Maximize SD-WAN Performance with Dynamic Multipath Optimization

Guest Post: Maximize SD-WAN Performance with…

Guest post by Paul Ruelas, GTT Modern enterprises demand optimal performance from their software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) solution — in real time, at all times — to keep both on-premises and cloud-based applications running smoothly. Even when underlying issues with WAN links arise, […]

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vSAN 7 Troubleshooting Tools | MysticMarvin

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vSAN 7 Troubleshooting Tools | MysticMarvin

vSAN 7 Troubleshooting Tools | MysticMarvin

The primary configuration & management point for vSAN is the vCenter client. But sometimes, troubleshooting has to dive deeper so additional tools are needed, how lucky we are, vSAN comes with its own. For this last post of 2020, let’s have a look at vSAN 7 Troubleshooting Tools and how to use it.

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Take Advantage of the VMware Horizon…

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Take Advantage of the VMware Horizon Optimization for Microsoft Teams Today

Take Advantage of the VMware Horizon…

Chat, phone calls, camera-on conversation – online communication is a critical lifeline as we all learn to stay connected and effective without being face-to-face. To truly take advantage of a unified communication tool such as Microsoft Teams, you need an optimized connection to prevent audio […]

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Quick-Start Tutorial for VMware Horizon 8

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Quick-Start Tutorial for VMware Horizon 8

Quick-Start Tutorial for VMware Horizon 8

This quick-start tutorial helps you evaluate VMware Horizon. The first chapter provides an overview of the key VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) and RDSH (remote desktop session host) features. Subsequent chapters contain exercises to guide you through the basic installation and initial […]

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Logitech Brio Webcam issues with autofocus and…

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Logitech Brio Webcam issues with autofocus and not retaining settings on Mac OSX

Logitech Brio Webcam issues with autofocus and…

I have been using a Logitech Brio Webcam for the past year or so. It is a 4k Webcam which is very useful for webinars and meetings, especially as I run my Macbook with an external monitor and it is closed. Over the past 9 months or so I had a bunch of trouble with […]

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Running Python and Terraform against a…

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Running Python and Terraform against a simulated vCenter environment with vcsim

Running Python and Terraform against a…

As if I needed more ideas for my blog, William Lam challenged me to test a nice little tool he had just blogged about. The blog was about leveraging a cool tool – vcsim – that records an existing vCenter inventory, restores a fake version of it and lets you interact with this simulated vCenter […]

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Migrate Workloads using Advanced Cross vCenter…

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Migrate Workloads using Advanced Cross vCenter Server vMotion

Migrate Workloads using Advanced Cross vCenter…

This video demos the two workflows to migrate virtual workloads between vCenter Server instances, using the Advanced Cross vCenter Server vMotion (XVM) capability. XVM is now embedded in the vSphere Client as of vSphere 7 Update 1c.

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Ansible Provisioning VMware with vmware_guest…

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Ansible Provisioning VMware with vmware_guest Example

Ansible Provisioning VMware with vmware_guest…

This post will take a look at Ansible provisioning VMware with vmware_guest example and see how this can be used to automate virtual machine deployment in your vSphere infrastructure for quick and easily spinning up and provisioning virtual machines.

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VMware SD-WAN and Microsoft Azure: Consistent,…

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VMware SD-WAN and Microsoft Azure: Consistent, Reliable User Experience

VMware SD-WAN and Microsoft Azure: Consistent,…

In an economy where customer experience is top of mind, businesses need to be more flexible, agile, and innovative if they want to compete successfully. So it’s not surprising that they’re looking to cloud services and applications as a smart path forward. But traditional networking approaches […]

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Tech Field Day 22: VMware Cloud DR…

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Tech Field Day 22: VMware Cloud DR Architecture: Scale-Out Cloud File System

Tech Field Day 22: VMware Cloud DR…

Sazzala Reddy, Chief Technologist, presents VMware’s cloud DR architecture with a focus on the scale-out cloud file system. Having replicated copies in the cloud is not enough when ransomware or other disasters strike. In this session, the Co-Founder and CTO of Datrium demonstrates key […]

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Tech Field Day 22: VMware Cloud DR Demo:…

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Tech Field Day 22: VMware Cloud DR Demo: Setting Up a DR Plan

Tech Field Day 22: VMware Cloud DR Demo:…

Michael McLaughlin, Sr Technical Marketing Architect, demonstrates the configuration of a DR solution. This demo-based session covers the key steps needed for initial deployment, including protected sites, protection groups, and DR plan construction.

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VMware SD-WAN Wins Unified Communications…

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VMware SD-WAN Wins Unified Communications Excellence Award

VMware SD-WAN Wins Unified Communications…

Wrapping up a year that could only be called unbelievable, we’ve received yet another honor. TMC, a global, integrated media company, has named VMware SD-WAN as a recipient of the 2020 Unified Communications Excellence Award presented by TMC’s INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine. “Every year, I am amazed by the innovation and quality represented on the Unified … Continued The post VMware SD-WAN Wins Unified Communications Excellence Award appeared first on VMware SD-WAN.

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NSX-T 3.1 NVDS to NSX on VDS Assisted Migration

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NSX-T 3.1 NVDS to NSX on VDS Assisted Migration

NSX-T 3.1 NVDS to NSX on VDS Assisted Migration

After being back from the holidays, I decided to catch up on some internal webinars I missed in the last part of 2020. While listening to one of the recordings, I grasped an exciting piece of information about a tool to migrate from NVDS to VDS 7.0 in NSX-T 3.1. I’ve been waiting on this […]

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Deploying a Windows Server Failover Cluster…

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Deploying a Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC) in the Supported Configuration on VMware Cloud on AWS

Deploying a Windows Server Failover Cluster…

Introduction A deployment of a Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC) on top of a highly available and resilience virtual infrastructure should never be done without a purpose and these purposes are tightly bound to Mission Critical or Business Critical Applications. Such applications require not only highly available hardware, but also protection from software failures (a … Continued The post Deploying a Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC) in the Supported Configuration on VMware Cloud on…Read More

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Can’t have more than 255 characters in VM notes…

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Can’t have more than 255 characters in VM notes using the vSphere (h5) Client?

Can’t have more than 255 characters in VM notes…

I had a question about a limit a customer was hitting with the VM notes using the vSphere (H5) Client. They noticed that whenever they got around ~260 or so characters, they could not add any characters beyond that unless they deleted some. After talking to an engineer within VMware I found out […]

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How to prepare a VMware Exam?

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How to prepare a VMware Exam?

How to prepare a VMware Exam?

Hi everyone! This post will be focused on VMware exams how to check which ones are available, requirements, how to prepare and some other tips. The following tips are the ones that were useful for me and I would appreciate if you can share your own experience in the comments section below.

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