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March 7, 2019 by admin

vExpert 2019

Yay delighted to be invited into the vExpert program for 2019.

March 5, 2019 by admin

New posts coming soon

Started a new position recently so time gone out the window, the merging vSAN clusters posts almost completed, editing the screen grabs taking the longest time.

February 11, 2019 by admin

TOP TEN REASONS TO UPGRADE TO vSPHERE 6.7

December 17, 2018 by admin

VMware Skyline – Install & configure.

VMware Skyline A proactive support mechanism, which automatically and securely collects, aggregates, and analyzes product usage data which proactively identifies potential problems and helps VMware Technical Support Engineers improve the resolution time. Benefits: Proactively identify and prevent problems. Solve problems, not symptoms. Improve the reliability and stability of your environment. Reduce time-to-resolution for service requests.…

November 28, 2018 by admin

AWS Outposts – A game changer

AWS Outposts – announced today. Well this is going to be an interesting one. Next year are we going to be seeing lots of companies rolling racks or 1/2 racks of Amazon hardware in to their local data centers to run EC2 instances in their own DC’s? Are we going to see service providers doing…

November 19, 2018 by admin

Upgrading vRealize Log Insight Manager 4.6.0 to 4.7.1

A requirement arose to patch my vRealise Log Insight manager 4.6.0 to 4 .6 1 based on Advisory ID: VMSA-2018-0028 so as it’s an pretty easy task I have upgraded to 4.7.1 instead. Advisory ID: VMSA-2018-0028 Severity: Moderate Synopsis: VMware vRealize Log Insight updates address an authorization bypass vulnerability Issue date: 2018-11-13 Updated…

November 14, 2018 by admin

Bye Bye External Platform Services Controller.

So the External PSC is the king no more, VMware are simplifying things (thankfully) with vSphere 6.7 u2. While architect-ing vSphere environments this was the go to guide. for me in the past. Below is an article from Emad Younis emadyounis.com @emad_younis. Who I met briefly at VMworld 2017 and went to a number of his…

November 13, 2018 by admin

VMware on AWS Data Charges.

While investigating VMware on AWS, I was struggling to get an idea data charges in and out through various elements, until a friendly VMware SA pointed me in the direction of the blog of Gilles Chekroun This blog excellently illustrates all charges, therefore hand to share, all credit to Gilles. Data Transfer IN : To…

November 13, 2018 by admin

VMworld Europe 2019 News.

VMware Cloud Foundation 3.5 VMware Cloud Foundation makes it easy to deploy and run a hybrid cloud. VMware Cloud Foundation provides integrated cloud infrastructure (compute, storage, networking, and security) and cloud management services to run enterprise applications in both private and public environments. KEY BENEFITS VMware Cloud Foundation dramatically shortens the path to a true…

November 1, 2018 by admin

Merging vSAN Clusters pt2

Scenario: I have two separate vCenter Servers. Each has a vSAN cluster. Each cluster is connected to additional separate storage. Each cluster is on a different IP range, different naming convention and different domain. Hosts in each cluster are identical in spec, reside in the same rack and are physically connected to the same e/w…