Don’t Mistake These Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Technologies as Mutually Exclusive By Jonathan McDonald I have not posted many blogs recently as I’ve been in South Africa. I have however been hard at work on the latest release of VMware vSphere 6.0 Update 2 and VMware Virtual SAN 6.2. Some amazing features are included that will make Read more...
Two new instructor-led training courses covering components of the VMware vRealize product suite are now open for registration. Beta versions of these courses may also be available. Beta courses let you participate in finalizing the near-complete course while saving 50% off the course price. For more information about these courses, or assistance developing a learning Read more...
In this post we will demonstrate how to configure a high availability (HA) LDAP server to use with the VMware vRealize Orchestrator Server (vRO) Active Directory Plug-in. We will accomplish this task using F5 BIG-IP, which can also be used to achieve LDAP load balancing. The Problem The Configure Active Directory Server workflow part of Read more...
By Antonin Perron Have you ever questioned yourself about the environment you are responsible for and wondered how your servers and applications interact? VMware Infrastructure Navigator (VIN) is a very powerful tool within VMware’s Cloud Management Platform that can answer such questions and provide application dependency mappings across your environment. Unfortunately, VIN is often forgotten Read more...
By Joe DePasquale It is not uncommon for organizations to end up with “shelfware” – software that was purchased with good intentions, but never fully utilized, maybe never even deployed. One of the responsibilities of the VMware technical account manager (TAM), is to help customers prevent software from becoming shelfware. One of my customers, a Read more...
