I’m happy to announce that Blue Medora has decided to become a vcdx56 blog sponsor. Blue Medora was founded back in 2013 and they operate in the analytics & monitoring space with focus on the development and distribution of product extensions for IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM), Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM), and VMware vCenter Operations (vC Ops) Below is …
A few weeks back the yearly top vBlog voting hosted by Eric Siebert at vSphere-land and sponsored by Infinio started and this Tuesday, (March 31) the results were announced during a live session which you can watch here in case you missed it. Simon Seagrave, John Troyer and Scott Davis participated in the live session were the top …
Today, March 13 2015, i have been a blogger for two years. During my first year as a blogger i posted 113 blog posts and the last year i followed up with 116 blog posts meaning a total of 229 blog posts. As i mention in my one year as a blogger summary, which you …
As usual, Eric Siebert, has made an awesome job putting together the annual top vBlog voting for the best virtualization blogs and i just wanted to let you know that the 2015 voting is now open unless you haven’t seen that already. There are more than 400 blog to select from so you got plenty of …
This is a guest blog post created by my former colleague Toni Lindberg who now works for Cygate in Stockholm, Sweden. Installing VMware Horizon View out of the box is not difficult. However, integrating the Horizon View solution with smart card to increase the security can sometimes cause problems. This blog post consists of a …
This is just a very short blog post since i want to let you know that VMTurbo has once more decided to contribute to the virtualisation community in a great way. By joining the VMTurbo 5.1. release webinar February 19:th at 1:30 PM EST (7:30 CET) via this link you will actually get a chance to …
I’m really happy to announce that Trilead has decided to become a VCDX56 blog sponsor. Trilead was founded for the purpose of providing a simple solution for back-up and disaster recovery in virtualised IT environments that runs on VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V Download the Trilead VM Explorer factsheet here to read more about …
This is great news for all the VMware User Group (VMUG) members and potential new members. When signing up for a VMUG Advantage you will not only get the traditional benefits but you will also receive a 365-day evaluation license for the following selected VMware products: VMware vCenter Server™ 5 Standalone for vSphere 5 VMware …
This blog post will outline how to install an Apache web server from an ISO image on my CentOS 6.4 virtual machine (VM). The reason for this is that i’ve been doing some work where no internet connection has been available. There will be a follow up post to where an web server is mandatory. …
Updated 2015-01-16 I have received a couple of questions regarding the registration process where Pluralsight asks for your credit card number. This is the text from their website. Yes, you can cancel your trial at any time during the first 10 days and we will not charge your credit card. Otherwise, after 10 days we …
A few days ago my first guest blogger blog post was released at the VMTurbo About : Virtualization web page and i touched the area of orchestration. For those of you following my blog, you know that i typically write about stuff i’m working on and a few software release notes so this is a coplmete new area …
A few days ago, actually the same day as vRealize Automation Center (vRA) 6.2 was release 2014-12-09, VMware released a security advisory found here for a critical vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) remote privilege escalation. This address a vulnerability in the VMware Remote Console (VMRC) feature, used to get virtual machine (VM) console access via vCenter Server, and the vulnerability …
Updated 2014-12-10 // The delta exam period has been extended to March 10, 2015 and the certification information page is available here. // As i guess most of you are aware of the VMware Certified Professional (VCP) certifications now (since March 10, 2014) includes an expiration date. This counts towards all your VCP certifications e.g.: …
Last week, 2014-10-07, VMware released VMware vCloud Director 5.6 for Service Providers (vCD-SP). The following issues have been solved: OpenSSL security issues CVE-2014-0224, CVE-2014-0198, CVE-2010-5298, and CVE-2014-3470 in the Client Integration Plug-in No vApp upload or download option for catalog and vApp authors The release notes can be found here and the interoperability matrix can be found …
An extremely short blog post 🙂 A few days ago i was trying to run a vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) 5.5.1 built in workflow and received the following error: This error tells you that the workflow didn’t pass the validation check before running and that’s why you can’t run the workflow. The workflow would not have …
I’d like to share something i think will be quite interesting this week. September 18:th Veeam will arrange a live show where you can catch up on and debate IT trends, with a focus on datacenter technologies from both a business and a technical perspective. Three speakers will discuss/provide answers to some quite interesting topics (e.g. …