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 […]
Stuff about vCenter Configuration Manager [5.7] (2/3)
This is the last part of this series of posts about VMware vCenter Configuration Manager. Part 1 Part 3 For more information about VMware vCenter Configuration Manager, check documentation. Managing virtual environments Data from components of virtual environment (vCenter, Hosts, Appliances) are collected by managing agent machine (= proxy agent). Change trust status for managing agent machine. Check if data collection worked: check registry-key: HKLM\software\VMware, Inc.\InstallData\VCM […]
Stuff about vCenter Configuration Manager [5.7] (1/3)
This is the last part of this series of posts about VMware vCenter Configuration Manager. Part 2 Part 3 For more information about VMware vCenter Configuration Manager, check documentation. General vCM is also Asset Management System. Information are collected by OS Agents. Export data to do further analysis using tools like Excel. There are 4 DBs: VCM_Raw. Raw data, is recreated every 24 hours; does not […]
Steps to roll out vCenter Operations Manager
These are the steps you need to take to install vCOPS into a vSphere environment. It is very important that all components (vCenter, Hosts, monitored Hardware, …) using time synchronization Add an IP-Pool in vCenter This should be done in (installed) vSphere client Click on the Datacenter and on the tab “IP-Pools” Fill in: Subnet, Mask, Gateway, activate DHCP if there is any, DNS Server data, […]
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