How can i update the virtual machine (VM) Annotations field in vCenter Server when requesting a VM via vCloud Automation Center (vCAC), soon to be renamed to vRealize Automation (vRA)? I have had this question a few times the last couple of weeks. This blog post will describe how you can solve this. The below figures shows …
A few days ago my co-worker Phil Liou had an incident where the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) 5.5 ran out of disk space for the vCenter Server Database. The default VCSA disk layout for the second disk /dev/sdb used for the VCSA database looks like: 20 GB Log 20 GB core 60 GB db We …
Every once in a while when i login to my vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) 5.5 appliance, soon to be called vRealize Orchestrator (vRO), i find a lot of the the library content missing so a while back i decided to create a blog post about it when it happens next time. While logging in to my development vCO …
Yesterday, 2014-11-05, VMware opened the vExpert application for 2015. Three different vExpert paths exists: Customer Path Evangelist Path VMware Partner Network (VPN) Path Being a vExpert includes many benefits and the two most valuable benefits for me the past two years have been the free product licenses and free access to VMworld conference materials online. There are three …
In my previous “Nutanix Data Protection – Secure your data” found here i discussed how you can use Nutanix Prism to create Nutanix snapshots of your virtual machines (VMs). In this blog post i’ll take you through the process of restoring the VMs to a VMware vSphere environment. I’ll show you two separate use cases: Restore …
For the second year i’ll attend the Nordic VMUG conference held at Bella Center (where VMworld used to take place) in Copenhagen, Denmark the 20:th November 2014. Last years event was really good including a lot of good information and discussions so i’m hoping for the same this year. The Nordic VMUG event is a small …
VMware has recently released an updated version of the vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) which will be renamed to vRealize Automation (vRA) in the next (6.2) release so i’ll call it vRA from now on. Two things caught my attention and especially one which i have been looking for a long time now. There is no longer …
It is with great pleasure i announce that Nutanix has decided to become a VCDX56 blog sponsor. If you have followed my blog or followed me on twitter you know i joined Nutanix earlier this year as a Solutions & Performance engineer. Nutanix delivers a web-scale system bundled in an appliance including CPU, RAM and …
This is the third video i have put together to show the vRealize Automation (vRA) formerly vCloud Automation Center (vCAC), vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) formerly vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) and Nutanix REST API integrations. Other related blog posts including automation videos can be found here: Create Nutanix Container via vCloud Automation Center Nutanix and vSphere deployment via …
As many of you already know, Nutanix web-scale converged infrastructure is a scalable virtualization platform for cloud, desktop, and business-critical applications and big data deployments. I really believe the sentence can be change to: Nutanix web-scale converged infrastructure is a scalable virtualization platform for all workloads The reason is our latest announcement, 2014-10-09, of the …
TPS makes it possible for ESXi to share (read access) physical RAM between virtual machines to increase the virtual machine consolidation ratio. This is to increase security even further VMware will start shipping ESXi without TPS enabled by default according to the following schedule: ESXi 5.5 Update release – Q1 2015 ESXi 5.1 Update release …
Last day of VMworld for this time and also the day after the VMworld party. No keynote available but a lot of other things to do…. Breakout sessions INF2311 vCenter Server Architecture & Deployment Deep Dive Same schedule for this presentation as last year, 09:00 AM day after VMworld party. Nice being up early so …
So i started the second day of VMworld Barcelona 2014 pretty much the same way as the first one, by watching the keynote. The second day usually focus more on technical stuff compared to the opening keynote and it was the same this year. Keynote First Carl Echenbach interviewed a few people and first on stage was SAP …
Nutanix announced the Nutanix Technology Champion (NTC) Program today, 2014-10-15. Candidates will be reviewed individually and this award program will recognize Nutanix and web-scale experts and help in shaping the future of web-scale IT. To apply for the program, please use the NTC Application and include as much information as possible to make it easy for the selection committee …
Initially i considered to live blog during the VMworld sessions i’ll attend but it took my only a few minutes during the keynote session to realise i can’t do two things the same time. Really impressed by bloggers who can. I’ll provide a daily summary the same way i did last year. I would like to stay …
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 …