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How to Deploy Aria Life Cycle Manager in VMware Cloud Foundation. VCF 5.2.1
Hello everyone.In this video I will cover how to deploy Aria Life Cycle Manager in the VCF 5.2.1 environment. I will also point out a few things that you will need to know.
Aria Operations 8.18 HF6 via Admin UI
Aria Operations 8.18 HF6 dropped yesterday, fixing a few bugs and addressing several CVEs, it was announced here. It can be applied to any 8.18.x environment and once applied will take you to 8.18.3 (24746341). Let’s go get it, you can download it here.There is a corresponding Aria Pre-Upgrade […]
Audit Events in VMware Aria Operations
In my previous blog post, I described how to capture and visualize both successful and, more importantly, failed login attempts in NSX environment using Aria Operations for Logs dashboards. With the release of Aria Operations 8.18, VMware has made it even easier to monitor such audit events […]
Aria Operations 8.18 HF6 Update via Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager
Aria Operations 8.18 HF6 dropped this morning, it can be applied to any 8.18.x environments. Let’s download it and apply it vis Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager (ASLCM). Here’s how: I’m running Aria Operations 8.18.3, so am downloading this patch.Download it here. Once downloaded, you’ll need […]
vSphere Tags on Clusters in Aria Operations
vSphere VMs have this concept of “Notes” in vCenter, which are pulled into Aria Operations quite nicely. They look like this.This works great for VMs, but what about Clusters? Unfortunately, there is no concept of Notes in vCenter for Clusters, so I tried with vSphere Tags and got close. It’s […]
📰 🔥 Preliminary listings for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 has just been pub…
This might be a first, as I don’t recall this ever happening for a major release, kudos to product team for early preview! 🚨 Please be aware that all information on 9.0 is subject to change until GA 🚨
“A family reunion – with a whole lot of tech talk mixed in.” VMUG Executive Director Brad Tompkins shares insights and highlights of the first-ever VMUG Connect event.
When I look back on #VMUGConnect25 (Apr. 23-25 in St. Louis), one thing is crystal clear: this community is thriving, and it’s driving real momentum.
vSphere HA – Admission Control – VM Infrastructure
VMware Admission Control is a component of VMware vSphere High Availability (HA) that guarantees enough resources are allocated within a cluster to satisfy failover needs. It prohibits adding virtual machines (VMs) to a cluster if this would compromise the cluster’s capability to secure […]
Fixing vCenter SHA-1 Validation Precheck Error During VCF 5.2.1 Upgrade
When upgrading to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 5.2.1, the upgrade precheck phase plays a critical role in ensuring the environment meets all the prerequisites. One common issue encountered during this stage is the SHA-1 validation failure on vCenter Server. In this blog, we’ll look into […]
Precision at Scale: Automating Advanced ESXi Settings Across Clusters with VCF O…
Automating VMware ESXi Advanced Settings with VCF Orchestrator — A Modern Reflection of the Antikythera Mechanism’s Precision Engineering.
How to Reset the Root Password of an NSX Edge Appliance
NSX Edge appliances play a critical role in VMware NSX environments, enabling north-south routing, firewalling, load balancing, and VPN services. Losing access to an NSX Edge due to a forgotten or expired password can disrupt operations and limit management capabilities. In this blog, we’ll […]
VMware Cloud Foundation. How To Deploy an Edge Cluster. It Fails but we will see…
In this video we will cover how to deploy an Edge Cluster using the SDDC Manager in VMware Cloud Foundation.During my deployments I ran into a few issue with the SDDC Manager failing to validate the configuration. Stick around and I would show you what I seen and how to fix it.
Today VMware/Broadcom released two separate security advisories | Anders Olsson
Today VMware/Broadcom released two separate security advisories: One specifically for Cloud Foundation (VCF), and one for (VCF)+ESXi+vCenter+Workstation+Fusion. To protect your vSphere environment you now need to be on version 8.0 U3e or 7.0 U3v. […]
Your Guide to the Right Platform for Modern Workloads – As Explored in the Forrester Webinar
Looking back at the “Top 5 Criteria to Choose The Right Platform For Your Modern Workloads” webinar. TLDR; Leverage a holistic infrastructure platform to improve operations, security, and resilience Increasingly, enterprises are reorienting their IT capabilities as platforms and embedding […]
VMware HCX – Network Extension between sites
Network extension use-case of VMware HCX allows us to extend networks from one site to another thereby allowing VMs to be migrated to target site by retaining the same IP addressing and avoiding any change of IP addressing for the workloads being migrated. In my previous post about VMware HCX […]
DSM 2.2 – Live from the London VMUG (Video)
Last month, I was invited over to the London VMware User Group (VMUG) to talk about Data Services Manager version 2.2. I was joined by our local business development lead, Scott Lindsay. We were fortunate enough to have our session recorded at the event, so if you would like to watch the video, [..]
Accelerate your CI/CD pipeline! | VMware Avi Load Balancer
🚀 Accelerate your CI/CD pipeline! Watch our Application Delivery How-To videos and learn self-service provisioning, lifecycle automation, and rapid deployment using a 100% API-based modern load balancing architecture. #DevOps #Automation
VMware Flings is now available in Free Downloads of Broadcom Support Portal (BSP…
📰 Fling downloads will be re-homed to Broadcom Support Portal (BSP) under Free Downloads, some cleanup will also be done, Flings Community will be for Discussion/QA.
vSAN Networking – Optimal Placement of Hosts in Racks
How should hosts that make up a vSAN cluster be placed in your data center racks. This post will help you understand what options are available to you, and why it matters.
