5 (Great) Reasons to Check Out VMware Partner Exchange (via The VAR Guy)
As it increasingly drives business strategy and success, technology is changing at a blistering pace. This new normal is bringing new challenges for customers and, thus, opportunities for partners—if they are prepared to take advantage of them.
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[Video] Dell OpenManage Integration for VMware
Dell Plugin: Automate and streamline the management of Dell PowerEdge Servers Website: dell.com Follow vSphere on Twitter: @vmwarevsphere VMware Web Client Plug-in Video Website: (Additional Videos) http://www.vmware.com/products/vcenter-server/features.html
vExpert Daily is back in 2016!
Back in Las Vegas and Barcelona during VMworld I am excited to announce that I will get to host the longest running daily podcast of VMworld, the vExpert Daily! Now running in conjunction with the vBrownbag series, it may also be the only daily podcast at VMworld so I am staking that claim after 7 [&hellip
Getting started with vSphere and python scripting (pyVmomi)
During one of my engagements as a Professional Services Consultant I needed to upgrade a vSphere 5.1 environment to vSphere 6. Detailed steps for this exercise are found on my wiki because I believe this can be better documented in wiki format.
Virtual Me: Remove a vCenter from a PSC Domain
With the new architecture for platform services controller (PSC) I expect we will see a lot more vCenter’s joined to a central platform services controller. At one point I had two vCenter’s connected to one PSC. I deleted one vCenter but continued to get the error: Could not connect to one or more vCenter […]]> With the new architecture for platform services controller (PSC) I expect we will see a lot more vCenter’s joined to a central platform services controller. At one point I had two…Read More
Let’s Virtualize: 5 Design Qualifiers You Should Consider for your VMware vSphere Design
While delivering VMware vSphere classes i got this question many times where in my audience is interested to know what are the Design Qualifiers for a Good VMware vSphere Design or what are the factors that affects a design.
Meet Your Work Productivity Hero: 5 GIFs of the New Socialcast
Socialcast by VMware, an integrated chat and social collaboration platform—hold on, where did I save this file? Got it. Socialcast provides a central, secure space—wait a minute, who chatted me the next important point? Here it is. Work productivity isn’t easy to achieve when you have to leave what you’re doing to find the right […]
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vRealize Orchestrator, TLS 1.2 and Certificate Importing — Cody Hosterman
As I have blogged about before, TLS 1.0 and SSL v3 were deprecated in Purity 4.7, requiring all connections to use either TLS 1.1 or TLS 1.2. This affected a variety of integrations, some we updated, some you just had to alter their behavior. A few VMware products do not/did not use TLS 1.1/1.2 by … Continue reading vRealize Orchestrator, TLS 1.2 and Certificate Importing →
Automating the import of vCenter Server 6.x root certificate — virtuallyGhetto
In vSphere 6.0, you can now easily import your vCenter Server’s trusted root CA certificate onto your client desktop by simply downloading it from the vCenter Server’s landing page as shown in the screenshot below. Michael White had also recently wrote about this topic here which includes a step by step walk through. Several weeks back I was working on […]
Can’t find a co-worker or a meeting room? At VMware, there’s an app for that -TechRepublic
VMware is rolling out beacons and a new mobile app at its headquarters to help employees navigate the vast campus and even find EV charging spots for their Prius.
vcenter platform service controller high availability (via Virtualization Gains)
vSphere 6 External Platform Service Controller with or without a load balancer vSphere 6 introduces a distributed architecture for SSO and some other services. Recommended topologies such as those …Read More
vCenter Server 6 Host Profiles — ‘Update Profile From Reference Host’ is now ‘Copy Settings from Host’ with the WebClient
Question – For Host Profiles where did the ‘Update Profile From Reference Host’ and ‘Change Reference Host’ move to in the WebClient?
CNA7524 – Photon Platform, vSphere, or Both?
This year one of my VMworld sessions comes from my passion for technology. Ever since I was a kid I have always wanted to play with the new toys first. As I started my career in IT this passion did…Read More
CNA7522 – Containers for the vSphere Admin
Following up on the overwhelming response from my blog post from last years observations at VMworld I have been asked to present this in a break out session this year. I spent many years as a vSphe…Read More
Some server storage I/O benchmark workload scripts (Part I)
This is part one of a two part series of posts pertaining to using some common server storage I/O benchmark tools and workload scripts. View part II here which includes the workload scrips and where to view sample results. There are various tools and workloads for server I/O benchmark testing, validation and exercising different storage devices (or systems and appliances) such as Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) flash Solid State Devices (SSDs) or Hard Disk Drives (HDD) among others.
HolidayCheck Accelerates Travel Planning With VMware
For HolidayCheck, the stability of a storage system hyper-converged with VMware technology is integral to business success.
Updating the VMware PowerCLI Community Repository!
If you’ve ever tried searching for a script or a module before, you know it’s not the easiest thing to accomplish. This sentiment has been coming up more and more as of late. There’s a ton of amazing PowerCLI scripts and modules, PowerActions scripts, DSC resources, and so forth contributed by the community and openly […] The post Updating the VMware PowerCLI Community Repository! appeared first on VMware PowerCLI Blog.
Latest Fling from VMware Labs – App Volumes Toolbox
This utility connects to App Volumes 2.x, 3.x and Horizon Air Hybrid-Mode (Enzo) environments, pulling data from the native REST APIs into a single interface for ease of management. Configuration items such as deleting AppStacks and managing Writable Volumes, which are not available in the App Volumes 3.x interface, are easily managed with this utility. The utility leverages native REST API calls for all actions.
