VCDX #181 Marc Huppert

vRealize Operations Tech Tip: Building…

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#vRealize Operations Tech Tip: Building Interactive Dashboards

vRealize Operations Tech Tip: Building…

vRealize Operations ships with a number of predefined dashboards to help visualize the infrastructure from day one of deployment, but a powerful feature of vRealize Operations is the ability to build your own custom dashboards. Dashboards are built up from widgets, which are part of the product and can be used to display various types of different information in a variety of visual formats to help you manage your infrastructure the way you want to.

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Auto Quarantine with NSX and Trend Micro Deep…

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Auto Quarantine with NSX and Trend Micro Deep Security (via bkdatacentre.com)

Auto Quarantine with NSX and Trend Micro Deep…

I recently worked on a very interesting integration between VMware NSX and Trend Micro Deep Security, the integration has the ability for Trend Micro Deep Security to auto quarantine a VM by applying an NSX Tag to the VM.

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EMC Unity With Native Virtual Volumes Support

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EMC Unity With Native Virtual Volumes Support (via Virtual Blocks)

EMC Unity With Native Virtual Volumes Support

One of the major announcements at EMC World this year was the release of Unity, a new midrange All-flash storage array from EMC. I was particularly pleased to see this release as a key design goal for Unity was to deliver native support for vSphere Virtual Volumes and Storage Policy-Based Management. The certification for EMC Unity for both block and file across both All-flash and Hybrid configurations has been completed and is available on the updated VMware Virtual Volumes compatibility guide.

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Delivering a Transformational User Experience…

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Delivering a Transformational User Experience with NVIDIA GRID & #VMware Horizon 7

Delivering a Transformational User Experience…

Workstations are the way work gets done in many industries around the world, such as aerospace, automotive, space exploration, oil and gas. Engineers and designers have traditionally relied on dedicated graphics workstations to perform the most demanding tasks, such as manipulating 3D models and visually analyzing large data sets. Standalone workstations are anchored to brick-and-mortar facilities. These workstations also carried high acquisition and maintenance costs, requiring the user to be present in the lab or office.

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Understanding vROps 6.X Super Metrics

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Understanding vROps 6.X Super Metrics (via Virtual Maestro)

Understanding vROps 6.X Super Metrics

A super metric is an administrator-created custom metric that contains a combination of one or more metrics for one or more objects. A super metric can be derived from either a single object or multiple objects across multiple environments.

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How to publish Root CA into the trusted store…

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How to publish Root CA into the trusted store in #VMware Endpoint Certificate Store?

How to publish Root CA into the trusted store…

Recently during preparing a new vSphere environment based on 6.0 U2 version and replacing certificates I got some problems and found the following error in certificate-manager.log:

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NSX – Availability and Redundancy

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#VMware NSX – Availability and Redundancy (via virtualizationgains.com)

NSX – Availability and Redundancy

vSphere administrators normally have two great fears, failure of Storage and failure in the network layer, as both of these can result in 100s or 1000s of virtual machines simultaneously going off line.

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VDP Backup With External Proxy

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VDP Backup With External Proxy

So in the previous article we saw the types of backup protocol used by VDP. We saw that when the ESXi host which is hosting the VDP appliance does not have the access to the datastore of the VM it is backing up, then the backup protocol used is Network Block Device (NBD). One way to avoid NBD is to bring the VM on to a storage which is seen by the ESXi host hosting the VDP appliance. The other method is to deploy an external proxy for the VDP appliance onto the host which is hosting the client that needs to be backed up. Please note, that once you deploy external proxy, the internal proxy will be disabled automatically.

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VMware Virtual SAN 6.2 Network Design Guide

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#VMware Virtual SAN 6.2 Network Design Guide

VMware Virtual SAN 6.2 Network Design Guide

Virtual SAN is a hypervisor-converged, software-defined storage solution for the software-defined data center. It is the first policy-driven storage product designed for VMware vSphere® environments that simplifies and streamlines storage provisioning and management.

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VMware Debuts Cheaper NSX Software-Defined…

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#VMware Debuts Cheaper NSX Software-Defined Networking Options, Hikes Pricing For Premium Version (via CRN)

VMware Debuts Cheaper NSX Software-Defined…

VMware debuts new lower-cost options for NSX in a bid to spark sales among small and medium-size customers, while also raising its pricing for its Enterprise version.

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Check it out: NSX Network Virtualization…

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Check it out: NSX Network Virtualization Platform Editions

Check it out: NSX Network Virtualization…

VMware NSX is available in three editions: Standard, Advanced, and Enterprise. Choose the edition that meets your specific network virtualization requirements and helps your organization move towards the Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC).

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VMware’s Disruptive Innovations

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#VMware’s Disruptive Innovations

VMware’s Disruptive Innovations

Disruptive innovation, is a term coined by Clayton Christensen. The term describes a process by which a product or service takes root initially in simple applications at the bottom of a market and then relentlessly moves up market, eventually displacing established competitors.

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vSphere Replication Testing/Upgrading #vSphere…

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vSphere Replication Testing/Upgrading #vSphere #Replication #SRM

vSphere Replication Testing/Upgrading #vSphere…

It had originally been configured under SRM using v 5.1, and it had been set up to test and never used. This was before my time, so when I arrived I was tasked with an IP migration for the whole vSphere environment (which you can see in my older posts).

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