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 …
I know it’s a few days late but i wanted to make a short blog post about this anyway. 2015-04-02 VMware released a security advisory (VMSA). The VMSA addresses the critical vulnerability in JRE which is used in many VMware products. Some of the affected products includes Horizon View 6.x or 5.x Horizon Workspace Portal Server …
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 i ran into a situation i have not seen in the past. I was using the vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) version 5.5.2 and the vCO plugin vCenter Orchestrator Plugin for Horizon View version 1.1 which can be found here When configuring the connection between vCO and Horizon View you need to run the workflow “Add Delegated …
This blog post applies to vCenter Server version 5.5. U2d and ESXi server version 5.5 U2a. A few days back i got involved in a virtual machine migration (VM) issue. The VMs were suppose to be migrated from one vSphere cluster to another without any chance of mounting one of the vSphere clusters datastore(s) to the other …
This is really awesome, today Nutanix has released the enterprise computing certification Nutanix Platform Expert (NPX). Since the certification is released by Nutanix it will off course require that each candidate completely master the Nutanix web-scale hyper converged infrastructure (HCI) concept and products. What will make NPX absolutely outstanding, and is a huge differentiator compared to other …
A new version of the vRealize Automation (vRA) formerly known as vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) software was released yesterday, actually the same day as when vSphere 6.0 was released. Based on that and the fact that is just a minor release i can unedrstand it didn’t got that much attention. However, there are one really …
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 …
Since i started to work as a consultant back in 2007 monitoring has been part of pretty much all design, implementations and heath checks i have done. Every now and then i receive questions about how to implement monitoring for certain software and this week i received a question about monitoring the vRealize Automation (vRA) formerly …
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 …
So a few days back i had some problem with the VMware Windows based vSphere Update Manager (VUM) Server that didn’t start after rebooting the virtual machine (VM) where the service runs. All other VMware related services running on the VM started without any problem. vCenter Server (and VUM) version running was 5.5.U1b was running …
It doesn’t happen every day but once in a while you can immediately answer a question when being called by a customer and yesterday was my lucky day:) The only requirement i had before answering the question was to get two print screens so i could put together this really short blog post. Here we go. Customer …
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 …
As you might have seen a new version (4.1.1) of the Nutanix Operating System a.k.a NOS was released a while ago. See the new features in this blog post. I have been through the upgrade process a few times now and last week i did one while running a customer workshop. The upgrade process just ran …
A few days ago, 2015-02-12, VMware released an updated version, 5.6.4, of vCloud Director (vCD) for service provides. This release, since it’s a minor one, focus on fixing potential problem but one thing i know will be useful is the option of upgrading existing vCD installation (versions 5.5.2 and 5.5.2.1) to vCD 5.6.4. The following guest operating systems …
A few days ago a new VMware Certified Directory (VCDX) was announced. VCDX is the highest level certificate you can earn form VMware and includes four different tracks: Data Center Virtualization Cloud Management & Automation Desktop & Mobility Network Virtualization Compared to the old VCDX directory that can be found here you got a really nice search …