vcdx181.com – Stage XIX: Backup and Desaster Recovery
vcdx181.com – Stage XIX: Backup and Desaster…
After completing the last HomeLab / HomeDC Change: Stage XVIII: VSAN and VVOLs it was time to review my Backup and Desaster Recovery Methods.
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Running PowerShell in a Docker container on…
Running PowerShell in a Docker container on VMware Photon OS
Running PowerShell in a Docker container on…
A few days ago Microsoft provided PowerShell as an open source project on GitHub, available on Windows, Linux and macOS! The first open source release is PowerShell 6.0 Alpha. In this blog post, I will show you how to run the new PowerShell version in a Docker container on VMware Photon OS. To get VMware […]
VMware vSphere: Fast Track [V6]
VMware vSphere: Fast Track [V6]
VMware vSphere: Fast Track [V6]
This intensive, extended-hours course combines instructor training with hands-on labs to focus on how to install, configure, manage, and troubleshoot VMware vSphere® 6, including VMware ESXi™ 6 and VMware vCenter Server™ 6. This course combines the content of the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage course with training in the troubleshooting skills needed for maintaining highly available and scalable vSphere environments. Students gain practical experience with these concepts through the completion of hands-on labs.
The virtualization world turns to AI software…
The virtualization world turns to AI software to meet budgetary demands
The virtualization world turns to AI software…
With data volumes increasing at an alarming rate and IT budgets stagnating, many vendors are turning to artificial intelligence to meet demands and ease technicians’ workloads.
Symphony Out of the IoT Stampede
Symphony Out of the IoT Stampede
Symphony Out of the IoT Stampede
The Internet of Things (IoT) Drives a Fascinating Pace of Business Innovation Companies across industries are using IoT to both differentiate their products and improve operations. For example, automakers are offering customers IoT-based enhancements to product safety and customer experience. Predictive maintenance enabled by sensor based analytics […] The post Symphony Out of the IoT Stampede appeared first on VMware End-User Computing Blog .
Why data granularity matters in monitoring
Why data granularity matters in monitoring
Why data granularity matters in monitoring
There are a wide variety of solutions on the market all claim to have various levels of machine learning, adaptive baselines, market driven analytics, learning algorithms etc… By and large they all collect the data the same way, poll vCenter for performance data via real-time APIs and on at the same time or less frequently poll all The post Why data granularity matters in monitoring appeared first on VMware Cloud Management .
A reconstruction of the Delta Airlines…
A reconstruction of the Delta Airlines datacenter outage
A reconstruction of the Delta Airlines…
Delta Airlines suffered a major datacenter outage at the airline Technology Command Center in Atlanta on August 8, 2016. The datacenter lost power at about 2:30 ET in the morning, which caused Delta to implement a ground stop. All departing flights were holded worldwide. Delta canceled roughly 1,000 flights on Monday and another 775 on Tuesday as it worked to get its systems fully operational again. It also canceled more than 300 flights on Wednesday and a handful on Thursday. Delta operates 800+ aircraft.
Apply URL based patch to vCenter Server…
Apply URL based patch to vCenter Server Appliance by using the Appliance Management Interfafce
Apply URL based patch to vCenter Server…
This video covers how to apply a custom repository URL-based patch to the vCenter Server Appliance or Platform Services Controller appliance by using the Appliance Management Interface
PowerCli – List of Tagged VMs, Datastore and Host
PowerCli – List of Tagged VMs, Datastore and Host
PowerCli – List of Tagged VMs, Datastore and Host
Here is a relatively simple PowerCli one liner that will list the virtual machines based on a VM Tag assigned to them, along with the Datastore(s) that the VM is on and the Host that the VM is currently on.… Continue Reading →
Virtualization The Future: VMware SRM 6.x Editions
Virtualization The Future: VMware SRM 6.x Editions
Virtualization The Future: VMware SRM 6.x Editions
SRM is DR Automation tool from VMware. From the licensing point of Site Recovery Manager can be purchased either as a standalone product or as part of VMware vCloud Suite® Enterprise Edition. As a standalone product, Site Recovery Manager is available in two editions, Standard and Enterprise. Both editions can only be licensed “per protected virtual machine.” A “protected virtual machine” is defined as a VM that is part of an SRM protection group, regardless of the state of the VM. Site Recovery Manager Enterprise Edition can also be purchased as part of vCloud Suite Enterprise Edition. In this case, Site Recovery Manager is licensed per “per protected processor.” Let’s discuss what’s the difference in between these two editions?
Microsoft SQL Server on VMware vSphere…
Microsoft SQL Server on VMware vSphere Availability and Recovery Options
Microsoft SQL Server on VMware vSphere…
Running Microsoft SQL Server on VMware vSphere offers many options for database availability and disaster recovery utilizing the best features from both VMware and Microsoft. For example, VMware vSphere vMotion and VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) can help to reduce planned downtime and balance workloads dynamically, and VMware vSphere High Availability (HA) can help to recover SQL Server databases in the case of host failure.
@DuncanYB’s recommended reads part 3
@DuncanYB’s recommended reads part 3
@DuncanYB’s recommended reads part 3
What most of you don’t know is that I was on a holiday for 3.5 weeks in China (beautiful country!)and just got back, hence the delay, I did not bring a laptop and tried to avoid doing any work (enforced by my kids). I had a huge backlog of articles to read so I figured I […] ” @DuncanYB’s recommended reads part 3 ” originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter – @DuncanYB.
New Requirement for VMware Identity Manager…
New Requirement for VMware Identity Manager when clustering — vDelboy’sView
New Requirement for VMware Identity Manager…
Recently VMware released Identity Manager 2.7 and with it there is a new requirement when clustering the Identity Manager behind a load blanencer. It is now required that you have a minimum of 3 Identity Manager Appliances with in the cluster. The diagram below shows this minimum requirement. This will also help when upgrading to future […]
vCenter 6 – Create new licenses operation…
vCenter 6 – Create new licenses operation failed for the entity with the following error messages: storage error
vCenter 6 – Create new licenses operation…
As discussed in previous post, I have one SSO domain that is rather large (multiple vcenters, multiple external PSC servers, thousands of VMs). I have been adding my vSphere 6 licenses to prep for our hosts upgrades when I ran into an error. I tried to add another license and I got a Web Client… Read More »
Exporting and Importing vRO Workflows with…
Exporting and Importing vRO Workflows with PowervRO — Jonathan Medd’s Blog
Exporting and Importing vRO Workflows with…
There are a number of different ways to get your developed vRO content from one system to another: exporting / importing single items, exporting / importing vRO Packages containing multiple items, synchronising content directly between vRO systems.
Don’t do it simply because you can: Distributed…
Don’t do it simply because you can: Distributed vs Simple Architecture
Don’t do it simply because you can: Distributed…
Hello all, it’s been long since my last blog. In between, I became a father, changed profile, changed location etc., in all a lot happened at personal and professional front. Coming back to blog, this particular topic was bugging me from last couple of months. In few of my last discussions with customers, it seemed we discussed only one point, that is to decide between fully distributed vs simple installation architecture.
Part 2 : VMware vSphere Advanced Concepts
Part 2 : VMware vSphere Advanced Concepts via VirtualGyaan
Part 2 : VMware vSphere Advanced Concepts
It has been quite a while since I wrote as I was busy working on few projects, So lets continue to discuss advanced features in vSphere and also Upgrading scenarios , Monitoring and Troubleshooting vSphere using both GUI and command line interface. Firstly lets discuss some advanced features : VMware High Availability This is an advanced cluster level operation which quickly brings back the mission critical business applications in the event of an ESXi Host failure. VMHA works on the concept of Master/Slave that is all clustered Hosts are contested in polling and a Master Host is elected VMHA installs an agent called Fault Domain Manager (FDMS) in every clustered Host that talks to vpxd (vCSA mgmt agent) FDMS is responsible for…Read More
Quick Tip – How to retrieve the ESXi Update…
Quick Tip – How to retrieve the ESXi Update Level using the vSphere API?
Quick Tip – How to retrieve the ESXi Update…
Using the vSphere API, it is very easy to extract the version and build of all your ESXi hosts. This information is exposed in the Product property of an ESXi host. For example, Product.Version will return something like 6.0.0 and Product.Build will return something like 3029758. However, one thing that is not available in this property is […]
‘In the Second Inning of a Nine-Inning Game’:…
In the 2nd Inning of a 9-Inning Game: NSX Use Cases & Networking Revolution
‘In the Second Inning of a Nine-Inning Game’:…
Rajiv Ramaswami knows the networking industry. Having spent the past 14 years in leadership roles at two organizations with deep roots in the technology industry, Ramaswami brings a wealth of networking and security experience to his new role at VMware as general manager and executive vice president for the networking and security business. Ramaswami’s career …
5 New Tools & Tech to Secure BYOD for the…
5 New Tools & Tech to Secure BYOD for the Digital Workspace
5 New Tools & Tech to Secure BYOD for the…
For those of us who have turned technology into a career, the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) concept is now almost over-discussed. But here’s the *fun* new BYOD reality for those of us in the enterprise tech world:: The architecture you deploy today needs to securely enable devices that have not yet been invented. Here’s the good news, […] The post 5 New Tools & Tech to Secure BYOD for the Digital Workspace appeared first on VMware End-User Computing Blog .