vRealize Automation (vRA), formerly called vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) vSphere Data collection is the process where vRA reaches out to its infrastructure source endpoints and their compute resources to collect information. Below is the number of data collection types: Infrastructure Source Endpoint Data Collection Inventory Data Collection State Data Collection Performance Data Collection (vSphere compute resources …
Last week i published a blog post where i outlined how to install an Apache web server on a CentOS virtual machine (VM). The web server was required to install, update and upgrade a few other applications and one of them was the vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) from version 5.5.0 Update 1c to the latest available version 5.5.0 …
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. …
A few months ago Nutanix launched the Nutanix Technology Champion (NTC) Program, read more about the program here. Yesterday (2014-12-24) the awardees were announced. 20 people are recognised as NTC for 2015:
A few days ago my colleague David Broome tested one of the new features, Metro Availability, in Nutanix Operating System (NOS) 4.1 that will be released next year. Yeah i know that time frame is a little bit vague but stay tuned beginning of next year year and you might have some more information:) The NOS Metro Availability …
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 …
This video will show virtual machine (VM) provisioning via vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) or vRealize Automation Center (vRA) to the Nutanix platform. The following rules and configuration applies to the vides: Approval is required when more than 2 virtual machines are requested. Virtual machines will be deployed to vCenter Server Folder: CentOS Virtual machines will be …
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 …
Yesterday, 2014-12-09, VMware released a version of vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) and as we have been told for a while now the product was rebranded to vRealize Automation (vRA). So the new version is called vRealize Automation 6.2.0. Some of the the enhancements includes: Enhanced Ednpoing support for: vSphere 6 (Q1 2015) XenDesktop 7 Enhancements to vCloud …
A couple of moths back i wrote an article about how to select virtual machine (VM) network placement while deploying a VM via vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) soon to be renamed to vRealize Automation (vRA). You can find the blog post here. I have received a couple of questions over the past months and they …
Yesterday, 2014-12-04, VMware released vSphere 5.1 U3 and one really nice thing is that vCenter Server now supports Microsoft SQL Server 2014. Another resolved issue is that a storage vMotion operation resets the change block tracking. vCenter Server release notes can be found here ESXi server release notes can be found here You can download …
This will be a very short blog post about the vCloud Automation Center (vCAC), soon to be renamed to vRealize Automation (vRA), Property Definition Vrm.DataCenter.Location. There are a few blog posts describing how to use the vCAC Property Definition Vrm.DataCenter.Location to specify where, to which vCAC Compute Resource, your vCAC based virtual machines (VMs) will be deployed. Many of …
I’m really pleased to announce that Nutanix has released a public sizer tool. This tool will help you get an understanding of the number of Nutanix nodes including their specification you need to satisfy the compute (CPU & RAM) and storage requirements for your workload. Use this link to sign up for free access. Fill in …
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.: …
This video will show how you can use vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) soon to be renamed to vRealize Automation (vRA), vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) soon to be renamed to vRealize Automation (vRO) and Nutanix API to create a simple email based report including the following information: VM Name Operating System IP Address Number of vCPUs Amount of RAM …