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Exciting New Features in VMware Cloud Director 10.5: Empowering Cloud Providers
VMware Cloud Director, the leading cloud management platform, has released its highly anticipated version 10.5, packed with a wide array of exciting and powerful features that can significantly enhance the cloud experience for both cloud providers and tenants. Let’s delve into the details of these new capabilities and understand how they can revolutionize the cloud…
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How to Configure vRealize Automation 7.x Management pack in vRealize Operations Manager
The installation of vRealize Operations Manager Management Pack for vRealize Automation is a popular ask due to the benefit of in depth monitoring of vRA offered by vROPs. The vRealize Automation Management Pack for vRealize Operations Manager is very quick to configure as long you know the steps and permissions required. In this post, I…
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Vote for the VMware CTO Ambassadors VMworld 2017 Submissions
As the VMware CTO Ambassadors program is made off just over 140 of the top VMware field talents, sessions submitted by this group are usually top notch and of great interest to our customers/partners. I wanted to collect all of these sessions in one spot to allows others in the community to recognize them and…
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My VMworld 2017 VVD – NFV – SDN session
It’s that time of the year, where it is your chance to vote for the sessions you would like to see at VMworld. This year, I have submitted six VMworld Sessions focusing on VMware Validated Design (VVD), Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Software Defined Networking (SDN). I hope you find few you will like and vote…
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VMTurbo is now Turbonomic
VMTurbo has just re-branded themselves to Turbonomic. I have just received an e-mail few days back from VMTurbo stating the change of the company name to Turbonomic. While it sounded interesting to change the name of the company out of a sudden, it all came to make sense reading their explanation on their website. As they shift…
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Resource Actions does not show up in vRealize Automation 6.2.1
I had an instance of vRealize Automation 6.2 with few resource actions that were built under Advanced Services with things like take snapshot and move VMs to a different folder in vCenter. These were working like a charm in vRealize Automation 6.2, but as soon I upgraded to 6.2.1 they stopped showing in the items…
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How to change the certs for VAMI on VMware vCAC Appliance
I have been working with several customers & after changing the certs for things like vRealize Auotmation using VAMI, they notice that when they access VAMI at port 5480 (ex: https://vra.vt.com:5480), they noticed they still get the self signed cert instead of the signed cert they have installed. The reason for that is the cert that…
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Is it time to upgrade your homelab? VMTurbo is giving you the chance to win it!
If you are like me, you are always looking for a new hardware to upgrade your home lab. Unfortunately, maintaining your home lab up to date has proven to be not cheap. For that reason, it seems VMturbo is giving away home labs for three lucky winners who register for their upcoming VMTurbo 5.1 Release Webinar. The…
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vCAC 6 Property Dictionary Relationship
Note: If you are looking for how use Property Dictionary Relationship in vRA 7.0, then you want to look at my updated article at: vRealize Automation 7 Property Dictionary Relationship, though if you are looking for vRA 6.0, then please keep reading below. Property Dictionary Relationship in vCAC 6 allow you to build a relationship between…
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vCloud Automation Center 6.1 Upgrade (Step-by-Step)
As the long waiting vCAC 6.1 was released beginning of this week, I have decided to test the upgrade process in my home lab as many of my customers are getting ready to benefit of the new features and enahancements in this release. The good news for everyone that the process is straight forward, where…
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Learn PowerShell From Scratch with Veeam
As IT around the globe has been tasked to deliver more with less resources has pushed admins to automate as many tasks as possible. The more tasks you can automate in your datacenter, the more efficient you can do your work and the less chances for error you will do with repeatable tasks. Most of…
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vCenter Single Sign On 5.5 Whats New
vCenter Single Sign On has a considerable amount of changes in vSphere 5.5, with few major ones. Many of these changes have went undetected or unnoticed by the Virtual Infrastructure Admins. If you have deployed vSphere 5.5 and missed these changes or planning to install vCenter SSO 5.5 and want to learn what has changed…
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VMware Onyx the easy way to generate vSphere Power CLI & vCO Java Script Code
Every vSphere admin will get to a day where he wants to automate particular tasks, though he always have to weight the benefits vs the time required to automate using a vSphere Power CLI script or implementing the vCO Java Script Code required. What if you can generate such scripts and automation procedure in no…
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VMware vCenter Log Insight 1.5
With the continuous exponential growth of logs in the datacenter, it getting close to impossible to consume them the traditional way. This is no difference in a virtualized environment, where you have the logs for vCenter, ESXi hosts, virtual machines, OS of the VMs, Application logs, & so on. To help admins better digest and…
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VMware ADP (Application Dependency Planner)
I have recently been delivering a Virtualization Assessment engagement for an Enterprise customer, where they have benefited of the recently introduced VMware Application Dependency Planner(ADP). I thought many enterprises & consultants out there would be interested to find out the what, why, when & how they can benefit of this new offering. Below I will…