This series of posts will be a overview of vCAC in note style. There will be hints and tips besides to design considerations and basic information about the product itself. If you don’t know vCAC at all, you will still have to read manuals and guides! Abstract vCAC enables IT to provide a self-service portal for users or just for IT department itself. With vCAC a company […]
Update host without Update Manager by using esxcli
This blog post describes how to update respectively install VIBs on hosts without using VMware Update Manager (VUM). Instead of VUM we will use esxcli. esxcli software is a really powerful framework which you can use to keep your hosts up-to-date, install and remove bundles. The commands below are using real repositories and vSphere Installation Bundles (VIBs). These examples should work fine for ESXi 5.x. […]
VMworld2014|14.10.|[VAPP2635-SPO] Best practices for managing your VMware environment with HP integrations
I thought the session would be focused on HP tools and practices to integrate HP servers and storage into vSphere environments for managing, monitoring and installation. But this session was mainly focused on OneView integration into vCenter. HP OneView for VMware vCenter Plug-in to Web Client is available for OneView integration Networking graphical display of network cabling – which is very nice! you can see […]
VMworld2014 |14.10.| [STO1853] VMware Vision and Strategy for SDS
This session includes the standard-disclaimer! So this is information about future features, so there is no guarantee, they will be as described! Storage Policy Based Management Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM) is on top of vVol, vSAN and vCloud Air. So these products use the same policy framework. Beneath policy-driven control plane there is the data plane. Overview of vVol virtual disks are native array […]
VMworld2014 |14.10.| [MGT2525] Chasing the White Rabbit …
Think automation as a pyramid Top: scripts Middle: Orchestration Bottom: Policies vRealize Automation (vRA) Automation Tech.: policy bases, built-in good for self-service service lifecycle management vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) Automation Tech.: Workflow Autmation tipps: measure what did you want to get, what did you get you should automate with standardization simplify don’t try to automate something that is not to automate … or to expensive to build your […]
VMworld2014 |14.10.| [MGT1431] Global vCenter Operations – One Place to Operate them All
This session includes the standard-disclaimer! So this is information about future features, so there is no guarantee, they will be as described! vRealize – new naming New name: vRealize, instead of vCenter vRealize Operations Management Suite, … News in vCenter Operations Manager 6 NEW: scale out architecture different node types master node only one; keep users, inventory service data node UI access, can be […]
VMworld2014 |14.10.| General Session
Announcement of new versions: vCloud Suite 5.8 vSphere 6.0 Beta vVol and vSAN 2 Beta Foundation Architecture Reference vRealize – new term for management/cloud vRealize Air Automation Compliance to come: Operations 6.0 Code Stream (software development, testing, production) Application lifecycle Hyper-Converged Infrastructure VMware EVO -> SDDC First Member: EVO:RAIL NEW: HP and Hitachi will also build EVO:RAIL Blocks! EVO:RACK (tech preview) to scale from 1 to n […]
How to determine the currently used certificate for View Composer
During an installation or upgrade process of View Composer, self-signed certificates can also be created. So it is possible to have more than one certificate named VMware View Composer Server on the Composer-VM. But which one is currently used? You can use the command C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware View Composer\sviconfig.exe -operation=replacecertificate -delete=false to replace the certificate. During this process you get a list of certificated. But to […]
Query events in View-event database
Quite a simple task, but good to know. When you try to query events in VMware View Administration GUI, View just look ups the latest 2000 rows to build the result. So when you want to look at errors, ten days old, and query within the last month, your chances are good to not get what you want. The result stops after a few days. […]
Stuff about vCenter Configuration Manager [5.7] (3/3)
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This is the last part of this series of posts about VMware vCenter Configuration Manager. Part 1 Part 2 For more information about VMware vCenter Configuration Manager, check documentation. Reports Powerful reporting engine. By creating a report there is the options to look at the SQL statement. Types of report Report form wizard SQL Report Imported SQL Server Reporting Service report A important feature is the possibility […]
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