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The Self-Healing Data Center (Part 2) – Installing the Webhook Shims for Automating Alerts — via VMware Cloud Mgmnt Blog

The Self-Healing Data Center (Part 2) –…

In the previous post, I explained how vRealize Operations with vRealize Orchestrator can automate alert notifications via the REST Notification plugin to enable a self-healing datacenter. I also introduced the Webhook Shims as the solution that provides the underlying capability. In this post, I will walk you through installing the Webhook Shims in your environment and setting up a simple use case to test things out.

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SEC9990-S – How Virtualization Will Transform Security

SEC9990-S – How Virtualization Will Transform…

Take a look at the future of software-defined security Security spend has been growing twice as fast as IT spend. It would seem the only thing growing faster than security spend… is security losses. This spiraling trend shows no evidence of turning around despite massive investment and innovation in security technology.

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A top Google exec shares her secret for having a fabulous career — via Business Insider

A top Google exec shares her secret for having…

By all accounts, Diane Greene has had a great career. Her secret is to make everything an adventure.

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A top Google exec shares her secret for having a fabulous career — via Business Insider

A top Google exec shares her secret for having…

By all accounts, Diane Greene has had a great career. Her secret is to make everything an adventure.

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VMware Site Recovery Manager – Post Installation Changes — via vLore Blog

VMware Site Recovery Manager – Post…

Today, I was pleasantly surprised to learn hands-on that many settings that I made during the installation of VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) could be easily modified after installation.

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Introducing VMWare snapshot management and hardware reconfiguration SBAs — via ControlUp

Introducing VMware snapshot management and…

We are happy to announce 5 new Script Based Actions for managing VMWare machines directly from ControlUp Console.

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Setting the record straight on DRS, pDRS and Workload Placement — via VMware Cloud Mgmnt Blog

Setting the record straight on DRS, pDRS and…

A consistent theme in questions from customers have been cropping up lately around VMware DRS (Distributed Resource Scheduler), p(predictive)DRS & workload placement. The questions are related to how DRS & pDRS actually work as well as some misunderstandings around the benefits they bring to customers’ environments.

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Exploring new VCSA VAMI API w/PowerCLI: Part 8 — via virtuallyGhetto

Exploring new VCSA VAMI API w/PowerCLI: Part 8

In Part 8, we are going to take a look how services are managed in a VCSA or PSC node which is provided by the vCenter Server Lifecycle Management system also referred to internally as vMon. You can interact with the vMon service using either the service-control utility which is only available via SSH or the VAMI APIs which are available remotely. As you probably have guessed, we will be using the VAMI APIs 🙂

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Getting Started with PowerCLI for VMware Horizon 7

Getting Started with PowerCLI for VMware Horizon 7

Learn about PowerCLI and how it can help in automating VMware Horizon 7. Get started by following demos on installation, connecting and trying a few basic commands.

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SDRS VM settings always set to fullyautomated with New-VM cmdlet — via Michael Ryom

SDRS VM settings always set to fullyautomated…

Came across an issue when doing deployment of VMs using the PowerCli cmdlet New-VM. If not specified and deployed into a datastore cluster, SDRS behavior will always be set to automated. Even if the datastore clusters default setting is set to something else. It seems weird to bypass the datastore clusters default settings and per default just set it to automated, but that is just how it is at the moment.

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Streamline Your SMB with AirWatch Express & Apple Deployment Programs — via AirWatch Blog

Streamline Your SMB with AirWatch Express &…

You already have a lot on your plate figuring out your entire IT strategy with constrained budget and resources. Mobility is our expertise, and we’re here to help.

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PowerShell GUI VMware and FlashArray Snapshot Management Tool — via Cody Hosterman

PowerShell GUI VMware and FlashArray Snapshot…

There are a variety of methods of managing VMware objects (VMFS volumes, VMs, VMDKs and RDMs) and the underlying snapshots to recovery or clone them. But often I get asked if I have a PowerShell (PowerCLI) script to do one or all of them.

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Deploying WordPress in vSphere Integrated Containers — via VMware vSphere Blog

Deploying WordPress in vSphere Integrated…

WordPress is a popular, open-source tool for the agile deployment of a blogging system. In this article, we offer a step-by-step guide for deploying WordPress in vSphere Integrated Containers. This involves creating two containers: one running a mysql database and the other running the wordpress web server. We provide three options:

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vSphere 6.5 Seeks to Solve the Virtual Machine Encryption Conundrum — via ServerWatch

vSphere 6.5 Seeks to Solve the Virtual Machine…

Encryption within a virtual machine has never really taken off due to the negative performance impact it inevitably has. Has VMware solved this performance dilemma in vSphere 6.5?

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Best practices for datacenter storage design — via TechGenix

Best practices for datacenter storage design

Designing a storage solution for a datacenter involves making lots of decisions. Here are some tips to keep you on the right path.

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Microsoft SQL Server Content Pack for Log Insight — via VMware Solution Exchange

Microsoft SQL Server Content Pack for Log Insight

The Microsoft SQL server content pack provides a set of dashboards, pre-defined extracted fields, queries and alerts which can be imported to any instance of Log Insight to provide easier to read and more organized monitoring to server administrators. It gives you a convenient overview of the major parameters of MS SQL server which play a necessary role in analyzing the overall health of a MS SQL server.

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Backup or Recover SPBM Profiles with PowerCLI — via Jase’s Place

Backup or Recover SPBM Profiles with PowerCLI

As a result of a new VCSA deployment, only a few SPBM policies will be present. Any previously available SPBM polices are lost with the previous VCSA instance.

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Building vSphere Integrated Containers from source — via MyVirtuaLife.Net

Building vSphere Integrated Containers from source

In the last blog post we I introduced vSphere Integrated Containers or VIC but to be quick and simple I used binaries from Bintray instead of building it from source.

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Looking for vSphere 6.5 information? Check out my huge Link-O-Rama — via vSphere-land

Looking for vSphere 6.5 information? Check out…

One of the behind the scenes things I do on this site is constantly maintaining my link list collections which serve as a master index for all the content on the inter webs related to a specific topic (i.e. VVols, VSAN, vSphere versions, etc). This makes for a one stop shop for anyone looking for information on that topic so they can easily find it without searching all over the internet for it.

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Important information before upgrading to vSphere 6.5 (2147548)

Important information before upgrading to…

This article provides important documentation and upgrade information that must be reviewed before upgrading to vSphere 6.5.

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