New Career Certifications and a New Specialist Badge to Kick Off the New Year!
The VMware certification team has been hard at work, teaming up with subject matter experts and studiously preparing all of the publishing and quality assurance tasks to deliver these new offerings. If you are new to VMware and unsure of the differences and cohesion between career certifications …Read More
[short hint] How to use /etc/hosts for DNS
If you have a home lab or a sealed off envirnoment with no DNS in place, you can use the local hosts files of vCenter and ESXi to setup a “name service”. You can use vi to edit the /etc/hosts file or to make it much easier use this command echo […]
Configuring vSAN File Service
vSAN file service is used to create file shares backed by the vSAN Datastore. vSAN file services has the following features: […]
VMware Aria Operations for Logs Data Sets
VMware Aria Operations for Logs (formerly vRealize Log Insight or vRLI) is a powerful logging platform. It can ingest logs from vCenter, ESXi Hosts, Syslog Sources, and more. But what if I want certain users to see only certain logs? Say for example, I want to give a user access to see only […]
Performance of VMware NSX Gateway Firewall on 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Proc…
Over the past year, pandemic-related uncertainties, the rise of remote work, and a surge in ransomware attacks have added to security professionals’ challenges. Given the extent of the demands faced by security teams, the need to secure organizational networks in ways that are […]
NTP troubleshooting on ESXi host
Here is there process of NTP troubleshooting on VMware ESXi host (also you can use same for every cluster and ESXi host) and how you can deep inside for NTP troubleshooting.
How to automate adding a license into vCenter Server with custom label?
When adding a license key into vCenter Server using the vSphere UI, users have the ability to provide a custom label that is then associated with that specific license key. This is certainly more useful than the system default label which uses “License N”, where N is an incrementing number. […]
VIB Conflict on Upgrading ESXi with Fujitsu/IBM/HPE Custom Image
Host upgrades with custom images offer extended driver support for vendor specific hardware or agents. You’ll get drivers that are not included in a standard VMware image. Upgrading with customized images may lead into trouble while updating existing driver packages. There used to be a […]
Improved Deployment Times with VMware Tanzu Operations Manager 3.0
This post was co-written by Nick Kuhn and Brian Cunnie. During the development of the latest release of VMware Tanzu Operations Manager, the BOSH Ecosystem team faced new challenges when upgrading the base BOSH operating system image ( stemcell) from Ubuntu Xenial to Ubuntu Jammy Jellyfish. […]
Preparing vSphere for Kubernetes Persistent Storage
For example, we could set up a modern application like MinIO to provide an S3 object storage platform that already has its own protection mechanisms (e.g., erasure code) using vSAN as underlay storage infrastructure that already have some embedded data redundancy and replication to avoid data loss.
Quick Tip: Add SDDC Management Health Dashboard to vROPS (Aria Operations)
Have you ever wondered how to add more dashboards to vRPOPS or Aria Operations. as it is now called? Since this is not quite straightforward from my point of view, I would like to briefly show you how to add the SDDC Management Dashboard as an example.
VCAP DCV Deploy | How to find yourself in Exam LAB
In this video, we’ll show you how to find yourself in Exam Lab and work through the exercises. If you’re new to the VCAP DCV Deploy content, or if you’ve been struggling to find yourself in Exam Lab, then this video is for you.
5 Steps to Achieve Your IT Certification Goals This Year
Technology is growing at a dizzying pace, so companies need to know their dollars are being used effectively and efficiently. It’s about new IT initiatives and the staff who will help them get there. Being certified can help you get better and more rewarding jobs. According to a recent survey, 59% of candidates pursue certification … Continued The post 5 Steps to Achieve Your IT Certification Goals This Year appeared first on VMware Learning.
VCAP-DCV Deploy Q1 – Q16
Here you can prepare for VMware VCAP-DCV Deploy Exam. You can have an exercise for VMware VCAP-DCV Deploy Exam and just keep in mind, those questions are not real and just some examples for a better understanding. Find 16 separate videos that address 16 deploy questions in this video series.
Lifecycle Management in VMware Data Services Manager
In this post, three aspects of lifecycle management of VMware Data Services Manager are reviewed. An upgrade from DSM v1.3.2 to v1.4 will be used to demonstrate the various aspects of lifecycle management. First, the provider administrator will upgrade the DSM provider. This will be followed by an upgrade of the DSM agents, before finally upgrading the databases. Upgrading from DSM v1.3.2 to v1.4 introduces a new minor version of the supported versions of PostgreSQL and MySQL. If the Allow…Read More
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Using terraform to clone a virtual machine on VMware vSphere infrastructure
This is a example script to clone and deploy multiple Linux vCenter Virtual Machines on VMware vSphere vCenter server infrastructure using hashicorp terraform scripts.
Upgrading to ESXi 8 using the command line ESXCLI – Baking Clouds Ltd
Exciting times again 🎆 with the vSphere 8 release published for download in October 2022. Scan the QR code below and download the ISO file or offline bundle for your selected upgrade method.
PowerShell script to list VMs on ESXi host. – Virtual Maestro
Here is a PowerShell script to list the virtual machines (VMs) on an ESXi host: […]
Replacement of the vSAN Witness Node
In this post, we will replace the witness node in the vSAN Stretched cluster.
