How to Update VCSA 6 w/ External PSC to Update…

How to Update VCSA 6 w/ External PSC to Update 2a – Let’s v4Real

How to Update VCSA 6 w/ External PSC to Update…

I’ve really come to appreciate more and more the VCSA. One of the times that I really appreciate it, is when it’s time to apply patches/updates to it. This post is just a simple….and I do mean simple…look at how to update your external PSC and then your VCSA when there’s a new update from…Read More


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Getting Started with vSphere’s Datacenter…

Getting Started with vSphere’s Datacenter Command-Line Interface

Getting Started with vSphere’s Datacenter…

Datacenter Command-Line Interface (DCLI) is one of vSphere’s newest CLIs. DCLI works exclusively with the vSphere Automation API (REST API for vSphere) to provide both an interactive and scriptable mode to monitor and manage all features made available to the REST based API.


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HOL-1706-SDC-6 – Guide to SDDC: VMware…

HOL-1706-SDC-6 – Guide to SDDC: VMware Validated Designs

HOL-1706-SDC-6 – Guide to SDDC: VMware…

In this Interactive Simulation, the user will focus on the fundamental architecture elements in the VMware Validated Designs (VVDs) for Software-Defined Data Center v2 that enable a prescriptive, expert-driven approach to deploy and operate a Software-Defined Data Center with confidence. VVD architectures are production-ready solutions that target a wide range of deployment scenarios and use-cases.


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VCAP6-DCV Design – Storage Policies and Storage…

VCAP6-DCV Design – Storage Policies and Storage DRS

VCAP6-DCV Design – Storage Policies and Storage…

The intention of this post is to take a look at storage policies, storage vMotion and Storage DRS from a design perspective, to address the exam objective focusing on these technologies. The idea here is not to explain the technologies in detail, there’s plenty of information else where – instead I will look to highlight […]


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Printing #migrate2vcsa Stickers and Apparel

Printing #migrate2vcsa Stickers and Apparel – Emad Younis Blog

Printing #migrate2vcsa Stickers and Apparel

Happy New Year! 2016 was a big year for the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA). We now have officially supported Migration Tools in vSphere 6.0 U2m and vSphere 6.5. With the release of vSphere 6.5, the VCSA has surpassed its Windows counterpart in terms of features and performance. Then there was the hot swag that debuted […]


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Planning Highly Available, Mission Critical SQL…

Planning Highly Available, Mission Critical SQL Server Deployments with VMware vSphere

Planning Highly Available, Mission Critical SQL…

The VMware Experts Database program (MS SQL Server and Oracle editions) invites the specially selected industry Experts to contribute to the breath of VMware industry knowledge by presenting sessions at VMware events to and developing white papers. Often these papers are commissioned by VMware (sometimes jointly with other partners) and in this case partial funding The post Planning Highly Available, Mission Critical SQL Server Deployments with VMware vSphere appeared first on VMware vSphere…Read More


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vRops – Super Metric enhancements – Michael Ryom

vRops – Super Metric enhancements – Michael Ryom

vRops – Super Metric enhancements – Michael Ryom

One of the areas in where vRops 6.3 has been getting a huge improvement is Super Metrics. You can read about vRops 6.3 enhancements here: https://www.starwindsoftware.com/blog/vrops-6-3-walkthrough-new-features#SuperMetricenhancements It might seem some what trivial – the enhancements. The addition of a few new operators. I guarantee you it is not, these new operators are a game changer for Super Metrics. Lets recap all the new operators Operators Function Example [] Array [A, B, C] == Equal…Read More


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Enhanced query monitoring now available in Blue…

Enhanced query monitoring now available in Blue Medora Microsoft SQL Management Pack

Enhanced query monitoring now available in Blue…

By: Lora Johnson To help extend monitoring within your Microsoft SQL Server workloads, Blue Medora recently released an updated management pack for Microsoft SQL Server, featuring new monitoring capabilities for queries and extending its out-of-the-box dashboards to ensure you can optimize performance within your Microsoft SQL Server environment and across the IT stack. What’s New The post Enhanced query monitoring now available in Blue Medora Microsoft SQL Management Pack appeared first on…Read More


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Interested in beta testing VMware Cloud on AWS?…

Interested in beta testing VMware Cloud on AWS? Indicate your interest!

Interested in beta testing VMware Cloud on AWS?…

Currently in Technology Preview, VMware Cloud on AWS will provide enterprise class application performance, reliability, availability and security with the best-in-class VMware technologies, all optimized to run on AWS, the #1 public cloud provider.


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Tired of waiting? Deploy OpenStack in 15…

Tired of waiting? Deploy OpenStack in 15 minutes or less with VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO)!

Tired of waiting? Deploy OpenStack in 15…

If you’re ready to try VIO, take it for a spin with the Hands on Labs that illustrates a step-by-step walkthrough of how to deploy OpenStack in Compact Management Mode in under fifteen minutes.


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Spotlight on the Move-VM Cmdlet including…

Spotlight on the Move-VM Cmdlet including PowerCLI 6.5 Enhancements

Spotlight on the Move-VM Cmdlet including…

VMware PowerCLI 6.5’s release introduced a lot of new cmdlets and improvements to existing cmdlets. One of my favorite improved cmdlets has to be Move-VM. Move-VM was already a very versatile cmdlet before this new release. It could be used to move a VM between hosts, datastores, resource pools, clusters, to new folders, to a […] The post Spotlight on the Move-VM Cmdlet including PowerCLI 6.5 Enhancements appeared first on VMware PowerCLI Blog .


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Why Nested ESXi Is an Essential Part of Your…

Why Nested ESXi Is an Essential Part of Your Home Lab

Why Nested ESXi Is an Essential Part of Your…

There’s always a ton of discussion around home labs among IT professionals on Twitter, and many are very, very impressive! I have to admit, I do tend to have a case of home lab envy at times. Wha…Read More


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Contain yourself PowerNSX, please!

Contain yourself PowerNSX, please!

Contain yourself PowerNSX, please!

Recently, PowerNSX was released to work with PowerShell Core. This was a substantial undertaking from Nick Bradford to submit some pull requests to PowerShell Core, create a new method of handling web requests, and then wholesale adjusting PowerNSX to work. Now that this groundwork has been done PowerNSX can be added into the VMware docker … Continue reading “Contain yourself PowerNSX, please!”


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Enabling SDDC Health Solution for VSAN monitoring.

Enabling SDDC Health Solution for VSAN monitoring.

Enabling SDDC Health Solution for VSAN monitoring.

A few days back, I wrote about the release of VMware SDDC health Solution 2.0 which enabled you to monitor all the key components of your Software Defined Datacenter. If you go though the… Click on the title to continue reading the post..


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VMware vSphere 6.5 AutoDeploy Rules

VMware vSphere 6.5 AutoDeploy Rules

VMware vSphere 6.5 AutoDeploy Rules

We have started to work with VMware vSphere 6.5 AutoDeploy recently, just before the End of the year. We have played in a lab with the Image Builder GUI and we have created new customized image with drivers which were needed for the hardware we’re using in our lab. What is Image profile? Image Profile […] Read the full post VMware vSphere 6.5 AutoDeploy Rules at ESX Virtualization .


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Extending an ESXi diagnostic core dump…

Extending an ESXi diagnostic core dump partition on a vSAN 6.5 node

Extending an ESXi diagnostic core dump…

This is something very interesting which gained support with the release of vSAN 6.5. It will be of interest to those customers who boot their ESXi hosts from USB/SD devices, and also have vSAN configured. One long-standing restriction with this configuration was the inability to boot from USB/SD when the amount of memory in the […] The post Extending an ESXi diagnostic core dump partition on a vSAN 6.5 node appeared first on CormacHogan.com .


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