We put together a new tool for finding all the port and service information you need when building out your virtual environment. This was found within the admin guides for each product but now we've umbrella'd them in one spot for quick access. More products will be added to the site in the near future … Continue reading Release: VMware Ports and Protocols for vSphere/vSAN/NSX-V/vRNI/vRA/vROps
VMware Integrated Openstack Federation Guide and SAML2 ADFS Walkthrough
VMware Integrated Openstack, or VIO, is our answer to a more easily managed private cloud offering while still leveraging the openness of what Openstack traditionally grants. Long story short, VIO simplifies the deployment and scaling of Openstack while optimizing the mechanics for integration with a vSphere environment. One of the common questions I’ve gotten from … Continue reading VMware Integrated Openstack Federation Guide and SAML2 ADFS Walkthrough
My Road Warrior Survival Guide
Being a consultant for VMware, I spend about 70% of my time on the road in hotel rooms across the world. Recently, I spent over a month straight in a German hotel room while going to work and doing a job far away from the norm of my every day life. It can be intense … Continue reading My Road Warrior Survival Guide
Custom Certificate Replacement Guide
I recently put this together for a customer of mine and figured I'd put it here for archival purposes and maybe some of you can use it as a full walkthrough of replacing vCenter, PSC, and ESXi host certificates with custom (non-VMCA) certificates from an external CA. Nothing in here is new or revolutionary, but … Continue reading Custom Certificate Replacement Guide
VMware Cloud on AWS – Your Enterprise’s Stepstool to Cloud
Last year's VMworld teased the upcoming release of VMware Cloud on AWS and the partnership between VMware and Amazon but until this week, it was largely kept under wraps. This week, at VMworld 2017, VMware announced the initial GA of VMware Cloud on AWS so the wait is finally over for some of us. When … Continue reading VMware Cloud on AWS – Your Enterprise’s Stepstool to Cloud
Removing a broken/stale PSC from vCenter System Configuration
Recently, I had a customer who had one of the PSC's in their cluster lose its database. We are still investigating how this occurred since it was paired to another PSC and this environment is mostly untouched as it is not in production yet. Thankfully, it is faster to redeploy a new PSC and re-add … Continue reading Removing a broken/stale PSC from vCenter System Configuration
vRealize Automation 7.3 Upgrade Issue – Missing Endpoints Fix / Workaround
Last week we saw the GA of vRA/vRO 7.3 which added an absolute ton of features for a 'dot' release. You can read more about that here but I won't be diving into that as there are plenty of other postings about that floating around by now. Unfortunately, there is a relatively wide-spread bug going … Continue reading vRealize Automation 7.3 Upgrade Issue – Missing Endpoints Fix / Workaround
Protecting your browsing history from S.J.Res 34 – Tips and Tricks
This is typically a blog centralized around virtualization but with several posts on Facebook amongst friends discussing this ruling, I thought it'd be worthy of a blog post and a few of my cents on the matter. Now that the Senate and House have both passed the controversial overruling of the FCC allowing ISP's to … Continue reading Protecting your browsing history from S.J.Res 34 – Tips and Tricks
How To: Upgrade vCSA 6.0 to vCSA 6.5
Today marks the release of vSphere 6.5 and with that, a new vCenter Server Appliance that is worth paying attention to. Beyond the traditional boost of configuration maximums and security, this version comes loaded with features that have been requested over the past few years. Some highlights include: Built-in migration tool to go from vCenter … Continue reading How To: Upgrade vCSA 6.0 to vCSA 6.5
DISA Approves STIGs for VMware NSX on DoD Networks
Photo credit: @_stump There a lot of abbreviations in this title so I will give a very brief rundown on what it all means and why some of you should care. In the public sector, our systems are hardened (locked down) a bit more drastically than your traditional private company might do things. Simply deploying … Continue reading DISA Approves STIGs for VMware NSX on DoD Networks