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End of Life vSphere 6.0 – My upgrade planBlog Name: myVMX – Virtualisation Author: Kin Yung
vSphere 6.0 will be end of life/general support on 12thMarch 2020 which is just under two months away and most people would of started or completed their journey to upgrade to vSphere 6.5 or 6.7. I have provided some of the high level steps/consideration that I have taken when I was doing my planning.As vSphere 6.5 and 6.7 both have an end of life date of 15th November 2021 I decided to look at both version for my upgrade plan with the mind of moving to 6.7 as my first choice. The reason I look[...]
Published on 2020-01-23 | Time 01:05:00
Brisbane VMUG – February 2020Blog Name: penguinpunk.net Author: dan
The February edition of the Brisbane VMUG meeting (and first for 2020) will be held on Tuesday 18th February at Fishburners (Level 2, 155 Queen Street) from 4 – 6pm. It’s sponsored by Zerto and promises to be a great afternoon. Here’s the agenda: VMUG Intro VMware Presentation Zerto Presentation: Leveraging Azure Cloud and VMware with [...]
Published on 2020-01-23 | Time 22:32:42
VCPP Partners, NSX Advanced Load Balancer Now AvailableBlog Name: Partner News Author: The VMware Partner Network Team
Learn more about the NSX Advanced Load Balancer (Avi Networks Load Balancer) and replay this vmLIVE. The post VCPP Partners, NSX Advanced Load Balancer Now Available appeared first on Partner News.
Published on 2020-01-23 | Time 21:46:59
VMware vRA Latency and BandwidthBlog Name: Virtualization The Future Author: Virtualization24x7
vRealize Automation supports multiple site, distributed installation, but data transmission speed and volume must meet minimum prerequisites.vRealize Automation needs an environment of 5 ms or lower network latency, and 1 GB or higher bandwidth, among the following components.• vRealize Automation appliance• IaaS Web server• IaaS Model Manager host• IaaS Manager Service host• IaaS SQL Server database• IaaS DEM OrchestratorThe following component mi[...]
Published on 2020-01-23 | Time 19:02:00
OVAs Are Now A Content Source in vRealize Automation (Welcome Bitnami)Blog Name: Cloud Mgmt Author: Chris McClanahan
There is a great new feature in vRealize Automation Cloud that highlights an acquisition that VMware made last year. Bitnami became part of the VMware family late in 2019 to bring an entire library of prepackaged application stacks to the VMware Marketplace. Bitnami makes it easy to get your favorite open source software up The post OVAs Are Now A Content Source in vRealize Automation (Welcome Bitnami) appeared first on VMware Cloud Management.
Published on 2020-01-23 | Time 18:46:29
Feature in Five: SQL Cluster on vSANBlog Name: vSAN / Virtual Blocks Author: vSAN Team
Welcome back to another segment of “Feature in Five,” our byte-sized videos of industry-leading VMware product solutions, all in – that’s right – five short minutes! Last time, we video-profiled Stretched SDDC on VMware Cloud on AWS; in this edition, we will focus on SQL Clusters on vSAN. Let’s dive in! After logging in The post Feature in Five: SQL Cluster on vSAN appeared first on Virtual Blocks.
Published on 2020-01-23 | Time 17:00:27- На VMware Labs вышло обновление Cross vCenter Workload Migration Utility версии 3.1Blog Name: vmgu.ru
На днях компания VMware выпустила очередное обновление своей утилиты для переноса виртуальных машин средствами Cross vCenter vMotion между виртуальными датацентрами под управлением разных серверов vCenter (поддерживаются как единый SSO-домен, так и разные) - Cross vCenter Workload Migration Utility 3.1. Напо[...]
Published on 2020-01-23 | Time 15:18:10 
Installing Powershell Core and Running PowerCLI on CentosBlog Name: buildvirtual Author: admin
Due to the release of Powershell Core, you can run PowerCLI commands on a Linux host. This will be a quick post to cover the steps required to get it installed. The first step is to add the Microsoft repo to your Centos machine: curl ht tps://packages.microsoft.com/config/rhel/7/prod.repo | sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/microsoft.repo Once done, Powershell can [...]
Published on 2020-01-23 | Time 14:53:51
How to disable VMware ESXi complex passwords and why you should not do itBlog Name: ESX Virtualization Author: Vladan SEGET
VMware ESXi hypervisor has a default password complexity turned on. It is to restrict admins using week passwords which is good. The ESXi password restrictions are set by the Linux PAM module pam_passwdqc, because VMware ESXi uses that module within the hypervisor. In this post, we will recap how to disable VMware ESXi complex passwords. [...] Read the full post How to disable VMware ESXi complex passwords and why you should not do it at ESX Virtualization.
Published on 2020-01-23 | Time 12:08:47- Getting started with the vRealize Automation Terraform ProviderBlog Name: Cloud Mgmt Author: Sam McGeown
In my previous post, Infrastructure as Code and vRealize Automation, I talked about the principles of Infrastructure as Code and how vRealize Automation can help you put some of those ideas into action. I also mentioned Terraform as a complimentary technology to vRealize Automation. There are several VMware providers for Terraform (including vSphere, NSX-T, vCloud The post Getting started with the vRealize Automation Terraform Provider appeared first on VMware Cloud Management.
Published on 2020-01-23 | Time 10:25:54 - Infrastructure as Code and vRealize AutomationBlog Name: Cloud Mgmt Author: Sam McGeown
Infrastructure as Code Infrastructure as Code is a concept that was created to solve the problems that are faced managing infrastructure in the “Cloud Age” by applying principles more often used in software development. Modern, cloud-like infrastructure is dynamic in nature and can lead to server sprawl, configuration drift and “snowflakes”. How do you ensure The post Infrastructure as Code and vRealize Automation appeared first on VMware Cloud Management.
Published on 2020-01-23 | Time 10:22:18 
Top 20 articles for vRealize products, December 2019Blog Name: Support Insider Author: antonyn
Status of TLSv1.1/1.2 Enablement and TLSv1.0 Disablement across VMware products “Cannot load the users for the selected domain / Error while extracting local SSO users”, Unable to add Active Directory users or groups to vCenter Server Appliance or vRealize Automation permissions Upgrade to vRealize Operations Manager 8.0 fails due to the admin or root account The post Top 20 articles for vRealize products, December 2019 appeared first on VMware Support Insider.
Published on 2020-01-23 | Time 09:41:02- North East VMUG – Thursday 6th February 2020Blog Name: m80arm.co.uk/ Author: Michael
The first North East VMUG of 2020 is ready for registration and boy is it going to be a good one. The event will take place on Thursday 6th February at the Royal Station Hotel which is situated right next to Newcastle Central Station. Once again, the team have put on a spectacular agenda with some great VMware speakers as well as community sessions. Special thanks to all the sponsors who fund these events and without them these events would not happen so during the breaks go spend some time with[...]
Published on 2020-01-22 | Time 07:33:00 - Dell EMC VxRail Management Pack for vRealize OperationsBlog Name: Cloud Mgmt Author: David Pham
With a joint development effort with the Dell EMC VxRail team, I’m very excited to share general availability of the VxRail MP for vRealize Operations. The Dell EMC VxRail Management Pack for vRealize Operations provides a single, end-to-end view of vSAN clusters powered by the VMware vRealize Operations Manager AI/ML analytics engine. This helps operationalize The post Dell EMC VxRail Management Pack for vRealize Operations appeared first on VMware Cloud Management.
Published on 2020-01-22 | Time 04:32:51 
VMware Announces Intent to Acquire NyansaBlog Name: Dennis Bray’s Virtual Place Author: vminstructor
I will be interesting to see how this is integrated! VMware Announces Intent to Acquire Nyansa By Sanjay Uppal, VP and GM, VeloCloud Business Unit, VMware In January 2019, we announced our vision for the evolution and SD-WAN and called it Network Edge, basing it on the belief that SD-WAN has unlimited potential in supporting [...]
Published on 2020-01-22 | Time 00:40:21