A great list of deep dive articles from Sonali Desai . Technical articles: Feature walk-through: Announcing the VMware Cloud on AWS – Quick Reference Poster Learn how to VMWonAWS with our latest addition: VMware Cloud on AWS Evaluation Guide Understanding Accounts, Roles, and Privileges in VMware Cloud on AWS #StorageMinute: Elastic vSAN NAT on VMware…
Read More VMware Cloud on AWS: Technical Deep Dive ArticlesMove hosts from vCenter B, cluster B to vCenter A, temporary cluster. 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…
Read More Merging vSAN clusters. pt3Sections Here is a brief breakdown of the five different sections and their content: Infrastructure Overview: A high-level diagram showing the relationships between the on-premises data center, the VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC, and native AWS services. HCX Enterprise Network: A detailed diagram covering the HCX components, connectivity, flows, and ports utilized between the on-premises…
Read More VMware Cloud on AWS – Quick Reference PosterYay delighted to be invited into the vExpert program for 2019.
Read More vExpert 2019Started 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.
Read More New posts coming soonVMware 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.…
Read More VMware Skyline – Install & configure.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…
Read More AWS Outposts – A game changerA 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…
Read More Upgrading vRealize Log Insight Manager 4.6.0 to 4.7.1So 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…
Read More Bye Bye External Platform Services Controller.