It’s been a while since I did any hands-on with VMware vRealize Automation (vRA), formerly known as vCloud Automation Center, but a while ago I was asked to do some integration work between vRA and Nutanix Era. Before jumping in and developing vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) workflows I obviously need a vRA environment:) This blog post …
Even though I’m trying to move away from the vRealize Orchestrator (vRO), formerly known as vCenter Orchestrator (vCO), java based client and use the new vRO Client which is HTML5 based and looks pretty good I’m still in the legacy client and poke around quite a lot. vRealize Orchestrator HTML Client – vRealize Orchestrator Client …
One of the things you need to check while doing network related troubleshooting is network card (NIC) driver, version and firmware. The command I have used for a long time do to dig up this information is ethtool. This works in most (can’t say all since I just don’t know) Linux based operating systems as well …
One thing I don’t do very often is to move an ESXi VMkernel port group from a vDistributed Switch (vDS/VDS) to a vSphere Standard Switch/Virtual Standard Switch (VSS). It’s usually the other way around, right? So when I had that question last week I had to look it up in the UI and this is …
Just a quick note to let you know that VMware just released VMware PowerCLI 11.2. This dot release comes with quite a few improvements: VMware HCX – New module NSX-T Policy Services support OAuth based connectivity support to vCenter Server – Right now only for GovCloud instances of VMware Cloud on AWS Storage module cmdlets updated …
Runecast Analyzer version 2.5 has been released and it comes with a strong focus on End User Computing. All of you running VMware Horizon will find this new release very useful since it includes the following capabilities: Scanning against and reporting of known VMware Horizon issues from the VMware knowledge base and shows you how …
Just a quick note to let you know that VMware just released VMware PowerCLI 11.0.0. In my opinion the most valuable updates are support for: Horizon View 7.6 vSphere 6.7 Update 1 vCloud Director 9.5 NSX-T 2.3 There are many more updates and changes in this release such as: New Security module Cmdlets for Host …
Just wanted to let you know that Runecast Analyzer version 1.8 has been released. For my blog readers running vSphere and NSX-V this is great news since support for VMware NSX-V has been added. Below is a summary of added functionality and improvements included in version 1.8: Support for proactive issue detection in VMware NSX-V …
Yesterday, 2018-03-30, VMware announced a new version of the VMware OS Optimization Tool meaning the latest and greatest version is now b1097. Fixes and enhancements to this version includes: [Template] Issue fix – DELETEVALUE actions do not do anything [Template] Issue fix – DISM commands missing /NoRestart switch [Tool] Issue fix – Switching to another …
Just a quick blog post for those of you who might have missed it and are still running VMware vSphere 5.5 that it will be end of general support September 19, 2018. vSphere 5.5 was released September 22, 2013 so it has been around for almost 5 years when the general support ends. The same end …