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Fortinet Achieves VMware Ready™ Status for Network Functions Virtualization! – ReadySpace United States

Fortinet Achieves VMware Ready™ Status for…

Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) offers unprecedented opportunities for communication service providers to adopt new business models, radically lower costs, and increase the speed of innovation and delivery of next-generation services. While the potential benefits of NFV are enormous, ensuring effective security is a key consideration for service providers.

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VMware Wants To Revolutionize Digital Businesses Via Hybrid Cloud, Software Defined Data Center & Digital Workplaces

Revolutionize Digital Businesses Via Hybrid…

Today, when a delay of few days in product launch can cause million dollar losses; when downtime of few hours can change the quarterly results of an ecommerce portal and when delay in detection of bugs can forever alter the future of a software company; digital & IT companies like looking for sharp solutions for effective results.

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VMware Cloud Foundation Digging Deeper into the Architecture – VMware Blogs

VMware Cloud Foundation Digging Deeper into the…

This has been an exciting time for the IT industry. At VMworld US 2016 (August 29th 2015) we had the announcement of VMware Cloud Foundation becoming an integral part of IBM SoftLayer and then we had the news of the strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and VMware (October 13th 2016).

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VMware embraces containers with latest vSphere, Virtual SAN updates – CIO.com

VMware embraces containers with latest vSphere,…

For years there’s been talk about what the adoption of public cloud and the advent of application containers would mean for VMware. The company is taking these innovations head on, announcing support for them in the latest updates of the company’s core management products announced this week at its VMWorld Europe conference.

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Do you want to test-drive the vCenter 6.5 REST API? Check out this new Hand On Lab – ntpro.nl

Do you want to test-drive the vCenter 6.5 REST…

The vCenter REST API is a new developer friendly, simplified API which allows for Virtual Machine creation, modification and deletion via a consistent set of developer and automation tooling. This will allow for consistent interaction with the API via the tools which make sense to the developer community or someone automating VMware products.

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Troubleshooting “SSO log directory full” warning in vCenter Server Appliance 6.0

Troubleshooting “SSO log directory full”…

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2143565 This video demonstrates how to troubleshoot “SSO log directory full” warning in vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 You see that the /storage/log directory is highly utilized in an Embedded vCenter Server Appliance or Platform Controller Server Appliance 6.0. This is a known issue affecting vCenter Server Appliance 6.0. Currently, there is no resolution. To work around this issue, reduce the maximum backup size and the maximum backup index in the log4j.properties file. Note: In external Platform Service Controller (PSC) environments, log in to the Platform Service Controller instead to make the suggested changes. For additional information, see VMware Knowledge Base article 2143565 at the following URL…Read More

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vSphere 6.5 with VVols 2.0 does not yet support in-band bind – vShere-land

vSphere 6.5 with VVols 2.0 does not yet support…

One thing I noticed that was missing from the vSphere 6.5 release which is expected at some point is support for an in-band VVol bind process that a host must perform when a VM is powered on.

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VMware SDDC Technical Whiteboard

VMware SDDC Technical Whiteboard

Trying something different…the VMware software-defined datacenter story in a whiteboard. The whiteboard walks you through the evolution of datacenters…from basic virtualization (vSphere) to an optimized, application-centric, ultra efficient, highly automated and governed SDDC. Enjoy!

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Certificates for Dummies – Part Two: Replacing vCenter Server Certificates with VMware Certificate Authority

Certificates for Dummies – Part Two: Replacing…

Thanks for taking the time to read my previous blog post―Certificates for Dummies―where I walked through the process of enabling PSC as a VMware Certificate Authority (VMCA). In this blog post I will demonstrate the process for replacing vCenter Server Certificates with those issued by VMCA.

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Return of the MacBook Pro: 3 Stand-Out New Features from Apple Special Event

Return of the MacBook Pro: 3 Stand-Out New…

October’s Apple Special Event was short, but certainly sweet for Apple MacBook Pro fans. Alongside a new Apple TV app aptly named TV, Apple’s October event centered on the brand new and much-anticipated MacBook Pro. And it was well worth the wait. 3 Stand-Out Features in the New MacBook Pro It’s been a year and […]

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VMware Cloud on AWS – Overview

VMware Cloud on AWS – Overview

Watch this short video to get an overview of VMware Cloud on AWS. #VMWonAWS

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Customization of Windows guests fails with the error: Customization of the guest operating system ‘windows7Server64Guest’ is not supported in this configuration

Customization of Windows guests fails with the…

Today when one of my client was deploying the vm from template then it was failed with this error message

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How to deploy the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) 6.5 running on VMware Fusion & Workstation? – virtuallyGhetto

How to deploy the vCenter Server Appliance…

As with any new release of vSphere, it is quite common for customers to deploy the new software in either a vSphere home or test lab to get more familiar with it.

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[Video] Micro-Segmentation Whiteboard

Micro-Segmentation Whiteboard

Chris Larkins – NSX Specialist clarkins@vmware.com @Larkins5280

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HCIBench – VMware Flings

HCIBench – VMware Flings

HCIBench stands for “Hyper-converged Infrastructure Benchmark”. It’s essentially an automation wrapper around the popular and proven VDbench open source benchmark tool that makes it easier to automate testing across a HCI cluster.

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vSphere 6.5 – Restore VCSA 6.5 from Backup -via Enterprise Daddy

vSphere 6.5 – Restore VCSA 6.5 from Backup

In this post, we will look at how to restore VCSA 6.5 from backup. In the previous post, we saw how to natively to perform VCSA 6.5 backup which is one of the new features in vSphere 6.5.

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Virtual NVMe and Nested ESXi 6.5? – virtuallyGhetto

Virtual NVMe and Nested ESXi 6.5?

After publishing my Nested ESXi enhancements for vSphere 6.5 article, I had received a number of questions on whether the new Virtual NVMe (vNVMe) capability introduced in the upcoming vSphere 6.5 release would also work with a Nested ESXi VM? The answer is yes, similiar to PVSCSI and VMXNET3, we also have an NVMe driver for ESXi running in VM.

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vSphere 6.5 what’s new – Storage IO Control -via Yellow Bricks

vSphere 6.5 what’s new – Storage IO Control

There are many enhancements in vSphere 6.5, an overhaul of Storage IO Control is one of them. In vSphere 6.5 Storage IO Control has been reimplemented by leveraging the VAIO framework. For those wh…Read More

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ESXi Frequently Disconnects from vCenter Server – Let’s Virtualize

ESXi Frequently Disconnects from vCenter Server

Recently in my Home Lab Environment i noticed one of my ESXi hosts frequently getting disconnected from vCenter Server.

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[Video] Technical 301 – What’s New in vSphere 6.5 Overview (Part 3 of 3)

Technical 301 – What’s New in vSphere 6.5…

Welcome and thank you for visiting “The Virtually Connected” YouTube Channel! Each one is intended to offer sales and technical enablement as well as general information on all things VMware. Feel free to visit or follow me on my other social media outlets as well. Twitter: @VMTimSandy LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timsandy Website/Blog: http://thevirtuallyconnected.net ********************** Video Summary *************************** Part 3 of 3 – vSphere 6.5 Availability & Resource…Read More

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