vSphere 5.x Notes & Tips - Part XV: vSphere Security:
Hi All ...In the fifteenth part of our series, we'll go through vSphere Security. We'll learn about how to protect ESXi Hosts, prevent malicious access to ESXi Hosts and vCenter Server and how to...
View ArticlevSphere 5.x Notes & Tips - Part XVI: vSphere Upgrading:
Hi All ...In the sixteenth part of our series, we'll discuss vSphere Upgrading. We'll cover vSphere Upgrading from 3.x/4.x to 5.x as well as in-place upgrade of vCenter Server Appliance.Short, but...
View ArticlevSphere 5.x Notes & Tips - Part XVII: vSphere Host Profiles:
Hi All ...In the seventeenth part of our series, we'll go through vSphere Host Profiles. Host Profiles is an advanced feature in vSphere 5.x which creates a customization profile from a reference host...
View ArticlevSphere 5.x Notes & Tips - Part XVIII: vSphere Auto Deploy:
Hi All ...In the eighteenth part of our series, we'll go through vSphere Auto Deploy. vSphere Auto Deploy feature is an important feature for large-scale deployment of ESXi Hosts in any virtual...
View ArticlevSphere 5.x Notes & Tips - Part XIX: vSphere Logs & Core Dump Collecting:
Hi All ...In the nineteenth part of our series, we'll examine logs and core dump collecting in vSphere 5.x. vSphere 5.x uses two supplementary components: Syslog Collector Server and Core Dump...
View ArticlevSphere 5.x Notes & Tips - Part XX: vSphere Update Manager:
Hi All ...In the twentieth part of our series, we'll go through vSphere Update Manager. This supplementary component is so similar to Windows WSUS; a component inside your virtual infrastructure which...
View ArticlevSphere 5.x Notes & Tips - Part XXI: vSphere Data Protection:
Hi All ...In the twenty first part of our series, we'll go through vSphere Data Protection. vSphere Data Protection is a component used for backing up and restoring VMs. It can backup and restore...
View ArticlevSphere 5.x Notes & Tips - Part XXII: vCenter Operation Manager (VCOM):
Hi All ...In the twenty second part of our series, we'll go through vCenter Operation Manager. vCenter Operations Manager (VCOM) is a monitoring tool by which you can gather a huge in-depth information...
View ArticlevSphere 5.x Notes & Tips - Part XXIII: vSphere Management Assistant (vMA):
Hi All ...In the twenty third part of our series, we'll go through vSphere Management Assistant. vSphere Management Assistant is a Virtual Appliance released by VMware to help VI Administrators to...
View ArticlevSphere 5.x Notes & Tips - Part XXIV: vSphere CLI:
Hi All ...In the last part of our series, we'll go through vSphere CLI. A powerful tool that helps with many advanced configurations can't be done with regular vSphere Java Client or vSphere Web...
View ArticlevSphere 5.x Notes & Tips - Appendix:
Hi All ...This is our last part in the series. It's just a subsidiary notes that might be helpful. Credits:jmattson (Don’t know the actual name)William LamNow, let's start..1. Creating Nested...
View ArticleAnswering a CIO's Concerns Regarding the SDDC
Question 1. Vendors are racing to lead the movement towards a software‐defined data centre. Where are we up to in this journey, and how far are we from seeing this trend widely adopted? Considering...
View Article[VMware] Horizon 6.0 リリース
待ちに待ったHorizon 6.0が6月19日リリースされました。メジャーバージョンらしくWindows ServerのRDSによるServer VDIやアプリケーションの利用、Virtual SANのサポート、クラウドポッドアーキテクチャーによる大規模な展開など新機能が追加されています。詳細な内容はリリースノートをご参考ください。 またHorizon...
View ArticlevSphere AppHA 環境構築のまとめ。
これまでの AppHA 系のポストを見直してみたところ、コンポーネント多いので絵がないとつらいな。と思いました。というわけで絵を描いてみました。 製品マニュアルにあるだけだと読み取りきれないところががあるためある程度、構築してみた上での推測で補ってます・・・違ったらすみません。 AppHA 環境全体の概要について まず、AppHA のコンポーネントは だいたい下記のような感じです。vSphere...
View ArticleHow to find vCAC entities with the vCAC plug-in for vCO (and how to filter...
The vCAC plug-in for vCO provides a scripting utility object called vCACCAFEEntitiesFinder to help to get, find and filter the same lists of objects that you can see in the plug-in inventory. But if...
View ArticleVMware VSAN and PerniData FVP compared
There have been many products that address storage performance of the virtual environment, including VSAN from VMware and FVP from PernixData. This post takes a look at comparing these two products,...
View ArticleThe 30 Days Cloud Catalyst Contest
CloudGenera and CloudCred proudly announceThe 30 Days Cloud Catalyst Contest! CloudGenera challenges the world of IT Pros to find out how much cloudcred they have when it comes to choosing a cloud...
View ArticleVSAN World Leaderboard Challenge - and the WINNER is...
RAVI did "Whatever it takes!"to S-C-O-R-E & WINatCloudCred.With 5882 points and 110 verified VSAN World tasks completedRAVI wins the VSAN World 14-day Leaderboard Challenge and welcomes this new...
View ArticleHow to get the actual IaaS VM from a provisioned vCAC Catalog Resource VM?
vCAC's catalog enables multiple providers to contribute with different types of resources. And the most common case is probably the default VM resource type, which instances appear in the catalog as...
View ArticleUnitrends improvements to good ole PHD virtual backup (v 8)
Recently I got an opportunity to play around with Unitrends backup solution, which is still in beta. For those of who are not aware, PHD virtual is now part of Unitrends. At first I was a bit skeptical...
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