By Mark Benson, Senior Architect and Senior Staff Engineer, End-User-Computing CTO Office, VMware

• Introduction
• What are the requirements for deploying UAG appliances using this script?
• How do I run the script?
• Configuration Settings
• Standard SSL, TLS and Cipher Settings
• Managing SSL Server Certificate Files
• Network Setting for each NIC (UAG 3.3 and newer)

Introduction

Updated May 2018 for version 3.3

In September 2015, I posted the article https://blogs.vmware.com/euc/2015/09/what-is-vmware-unified-access-gateway-secure-remote-access.html. Unified Access Gateway (UAG) is a VMware virtual appliance which is used with several VMware End-User Computing products for VMware Horizon, VMware Identity Manager and VMware AirWatch. In that article I mentioned the ability to perform a scripted deployment of a UAG virtual appliance to perform a repeatable deployment where all settings can be applied in a way that allows UAG to be production ready on first boot.

It is possible to deploy UAG in a vSphere environment using the VMware OVF Tool command. Whilst it is great to be able to specify all configuration settings in one go at deployment time, the downside of this is that the OVF Tool command line can become very long and complex. It is also easy to introduce errors on the command line as the command syntax for OVF Tool used in this way can be difficult to get right. Also, it is not possible to validate the settings with OVF Tool and it is therefore very easy to make configuration errors such as setting an admin REST API password that doesn't meet the required complexity rules.

Many Windows administrators managing a VMware End-User Computing product environment need an automated way to deploy UAG in a secure, reliable and repeatable way and to have complete control over the settings. For these reasons, we have developed a PowerShell script that can be used to deploy UAG and which overcomes the main difficulties of using OVF Tool directly on the command line. As this PowerShell script is delivered as a sample script, you can also adapt it as required for your specific needs although in most cases you won't need to modify it at all. The script calls the OVF Tool command but validates the settings and automatically constructs the correct command line syntax. The settings are taken from a simple .INI file. This script runs OVF Tool in a fully supported way for UAG deployment. Note that no password values or private key values are stored within the .INI configuration files.

The PowerShell script sets all configuration settings for OVF Tool at deployment time. This includes setting up the CA issued SSL Server certificate and all other possible settings. After UAG has been deployed by this script, there is no need to make configuration changes after deployment. UAG will be ready for production use on first boot. Using PowerShell and mastering configuration settings in a simple .ini file also simplifies the task or repeat deployments such as when upgrading UAG from one version to the next. You modify the .ova file reference in the .ini and re-run the PowerShell command. This automatically deletes the existing UAG appliance and replaces it with the upgraded image and automatically re-applies all of the initial settings from the .ini file.

What are the requirements for deploying UAG appliances using this script?

1. For UAG itself, a vSphere ESXi host and a vCenter Server is needed. Decide on the vSphere datastore to be used and the Network name to be used. If you are deploying a pre 3.3 version of UAG then a vSphere Network Protocol Profile (or IP Pool) must be associated with every referenced network name. This Network Protocol Profile specifies network settings such as IPv4 subnet mask, gateway etc. The deployment of pre 3.3 UAG appliances uses these values so make sure the values are correct. Note: In order to improve vSphere deployment flexibility, UAG 3.3 no longer uses NPPs or IP Pools. This means UAG can be deployed in environments where these are not set up. Instead, settings of IPv4 netmask, IPv6 prefix and defaultGateway (as required) must be specified in the .ini file instead. Refer to the network settings section below for details of the configuration of each UAG NIC for IPv4 and IPv6 combinations supported.
2. The PowerShell script runs on a machine running Windows 8.1 (or newer) or Windows Server 2008 R2 (or newer). This can be the vCenter Server itself if it is running on Windows, or can be a separate Windows machine.
3. The Windows machine running the script must also have the VMware OVF Tool command installed. Install OVF Tool 4.2.0 or newer. You can download it from here OVF Tool Software and Documentation.

How do I run the script?

• Download a version of UAG virtual appliance image from VMware onto your Windows machine. This is an OVA file. e.g. euc-unified-access-gateway-3.3.0.0-8539135_OVF10.ova. Refer to VMware Product Interoperability Matrixes to determine the latest version to download.
• Download the correct uagdeploy or apdeploy ZIP file attached below and extract the files into a folder on your Windows machine.
• On your Windows machine, open a PowerShell console and change directory to the location of your script.
• Create a .INI configuration file for your UAG virtual appliance. In this example, I am going deploy a new UAG appliance called UAG1. I have created a .INI file called uag1.ini which contains all the configuration settings for UAG1. You can use the sample .INI files contained within the uagdeploy ZIP file to create your .INI file and then modify the settings to the values you want.
• Make sure script execution is unrestricted for the current user. You can do this by running the command:
  set-executionpolicy -scope currentuser unrestricted
• You only need to run this once and only if it is currently restricted.
  If you get a warning about running this script, you can unblock that warning by running the command:
  unblock-file -path .\uagdeploy.ps1
  or
  unblock-file -path .\apdeploy.ps1
• Run the command .\uagdeploy.ps1 -iniFile uag1.ini as shown in the screenshot below. If you don't specify the -iniFile option, the script will default to ap.ini. You will be prompted to set a root password for the appliance and an optional password for the admin REST API. You will also be prompted for the vCenter password. Deployment takes around a minute depending on your host and storage performance. If you are prompted to add the fingerprint for the target machine, enter yes.

• When the script completes, the UAG appliance is ready to use. No further configuration steps are required.

.INI File Contents

The uagdeploy ZIPfile attached at the bottom of this post contains four example .INI files. uag1-basic.ini is a minimal .INI file which just contains the minimum settings needed. uag2-advanced.ini is a more complex configuration file showing additional settings available. uag3-securid.ini is an example of a configuration including RSA SecurID authentication. uag4-radius.ini is an example of a configuration including RADIUS authentication. You should start with just a basic .INI file to ensure that this deployment method works in your environment. You can then add more advanced settings in your .INI file and repeat the deployment. If you have already deployed the named UAG appliance, then running the script again will power off the appliance, delete it, and will redeploy it with the current .INI settings. This is a useful capability to use when either upgrading the appliance to a newer version, or just to change any of the settings.

Basic .INI File Example

##############################################

[General]

name=UAG1

source=C:\APs\euc-unified-access-gateway-3.1.0.0-6645767_OVF10.ova

target=vi://administrator@vsphere.local:PASSWORD@192.168.0.21/Datacenter1/host/esx1.myco.int

ds=Local Disk 1

netInternet=VM Network

netManagementNetwork=VM Network

netBackendNetwork=VM Network

honorCipherOrder=true

[Horizon]

proxyDestinationUrl=https://192.168.0.209

##############################################

The following table describes each configuration setting. These must be arranged in the .INI file under the appropriate Group Name shown in the first column and as shown in the sample .INI files.

Configuring UAG as a Web Reverse Proxy for VMware Identified Manager

UAG (or Access Point) 2.6 and newer can be used as a Web Reverse Proxy in front of VMware Identity Manager version 2.6 (and newer). Make sure you use a 2.6 (or newer) version of UAG or Access Point e.g.

source=euc-unified-access-gateway-3.1.0.0-6645767_OVF10.ova

For exact up to date information on UAG and Access Point compatibility, refer to the VMware Product Interoperability Matrixes.

For this setup, remove the entire [Horizon] section from the .ini file and replace it with a new [WebReverseProxy] section. Use the values shown in the sample uag10-vidm.ini file in uagdeploy ZIP file below. Set the proxyDestinationUrl to the URL of the Identity Manager server. If that service does not use a trusted CA signed SSL server certificate then you will also need to add the proxyDestinationUrlThumbprints value. Leave all other values in [WebReverseProxy] exactly as shown in the sample uag10-vidm.ini.

The setup requires "split DNS" to be setup where the URL hostname for an external user resolved to the address of UAG, and the same URL hostname for an internal user resolves to the address of the Identity Manager server.

Configuration Settings

Standard SSL, TLS and Cipher Settings

UAG is deployed with the following settings:

• SSL 2.0 disabled
• SSL 3.0 disabled
• TLS 1.0 disabled
• TLS 1.2 enabled
• TLS 1.2 enabled

• TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384
• TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA
• TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA
• TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256
• TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA
• TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA

Managing SSL Server Certificate Files

Deploying a trusted certificate authority (CA) signed SSL server certificate on UAG gives users the assurance that they are connecting to a trusted environment. It also significantly reduces the security risk of a so called man-in-the-middle attack between the user and the service.

If you don't specify a certificate in the [SSLCert] section of the .ini file, UAG will generate a self-signed SSL server certificate. This will work, and can be useful for initial testing, but a self-signed certificate will not be trusted by Horizon  and other clients and therefore users will receive a warning when connecting via UAG.

For production environments, it is best to obtain an SSL server certificate from a trusted CA for use on each UAG appliance.

If you have the PEM format files for the SSL server certificate (including any intermediate CA certificates and root CA certificate) you can reference the files in the pemCerts and pemPrivKey values as described later in this section.

From UAG version 3.0, the deployment of the SSL server certificate became much simpler for customers who have their trusted CA certificate and private key in PKCS#12 (.p12 or .pfx) format. From UAG version 3.0, it is no longer necessary to convert the .p12 or .pfx file to PEM format using openssl commands as described below. Instead, you can now just reference the .p12 or .pfx file directly from within the .ini file. In the .INI file, add the following lines.

[SSLCert]

pfxCerts=mycaservercert.pfx

When the script is run, these certificates and private key will be automatically deployed to the new UAG appliance. The referenced pfxCerts file should contain the SSL server certificate with private key, and any intermediate certificates required. During deployment you enter the password associated with the .p12/.pfx file.

If there are multiple certificates with private key, then you can specify which one to use with the pfxCertAlias keyword.

If you have a certificate file with private key and certificate trust chain all in one PKCS#12 format file with either a .p12 or .pfx file extension, then with UAG 3.0 and newer you can use it use it directly without conversion as described above. For UAG and Access Point versions below 3.0 you must convert the PKCS#12 format file into the two PEM format files. PEM format is still supported for UAG 3.0 and newer and can still be needed if you have PEM format files. You can convert from PKCS#12 to the two PEM files with openssl (which you can download from Shining Light Productions - Win32 OpenSSL) by running the following example openssl commands which start with a PKCS#12 file called mycaservercert.pfx.

openssl pkcs12 -in mycaservercert.pfx -nokeys -out mycaservercert.pem

openssl pkcs12 -in mycaservercert.pfx -nodes -nocerts -out mycaservercertkey.pem

openssl rsa -in mycaservercertkey.pem -check -out mycaservercertkeyrsa.pem

Edit mycaservercert.pem and remove any unnecessary certificate entries. It should contain the one SSL server certificate followed by any necessary intermediate CA certificates and root CA certificate.

In the .INI file, add the following lines.

[SSLCert]

pemCerts=mycaservercert.pem

pemPrivKey=mycaservercertkeyrsa.pem

When the script is run, these certificates and private key will be automatically deployed to the new UAG appliance. The private key PEM file should be deleted from the Windows machine once UAG has been deployed.

If you find that the deployment of UAG works when you don't specify the PEM files (i.e. for UAG to use a self-signed SSL server certificate) but fails when you supply your own certificate as described above, then follow these steps. It could be caused by a missing intermediate or root certificate in your specified PEM file.

• Log into the console of UAG as user root and enter the root password you chose when you ran the uagdeploy.ps1 script.
• Using an editor such as vi, look at the log file /opt/vmware/gateway/logs/admin.log
• If you see entries saying "Unable to build the certification path" and "No issuer certificate for certificate in certification path found" it means that you having missing intermediate or root certificate entries in the PEM or .p12/.pfx file specified for.

• To correct this, you must make sure that any required intermediate certificates and/or root certificate are present in the PEM file and then re-run the uagdeploy.ps1 script.

Network Setting for each NIC (UAG 3.3 and newer)

The table above shows the 11 IPv4 and IPv6 combination modes supported in UAG 3.3 and newer for each NIC with examples for the first NIC (eth0). The same settings can be applied to the second (eth1) and third (eth2) NICs as required.

NIC0 - eth0 - ipMode0, ip0, netmask0, vcip0, v6Prefix0.

NIC1 - eth1 - ipMode1, ip1, netmask1, vcip1, v6Prefix1.

NIC2 - eth2 - ipMode2, ip2, netmask2, vcip2, v6Prefix2.

Troubleshooting Deployment Problems

1. I get a security warning about running scripts downloaded from the Internet

Verify that the PowerShell script is the script you intend to run, and then from the PowerShell console, run the command:

unblock-file .\uagdeploy.ps1

2. I get an error saying "ovftool command not found".

Make sure you have installed the OVF Tool software on your Windows machine and that it is installed in the location expected by the script. OVF Tool Download.

3. I get an error saying "Invalid Network in property netmask0" or "Cannot initialize property 'netmask0'. Network 'VM Network' has no associated network protocol profile"

The message may state netmask0, netmask1 or netmask2, Check that a value has been set in the .INI file for each of the three networks (netInternet, netManagementNetwork and netBackendNetwork),Also check that a vSphere Network Protocol Profile has been associated with every referenced network name. This specifies network settings such as IPv4 subnet mask, gateway etc. so make sure the associated Network Protocol Profile has correct values for each of the settings.

4. I get a warning message about the operating system identifier being not supported (id: 85)

The full message is: The specified operating system identifier 'SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12.0 64bit' (id:85) is not supported on the selected host. It will be mapped to the following OS identifier: 'Other Linux (64-bit)'.

This can be ignored. It is mapped to a supported operating system automatically.

5. How do I configure UAG for RSA SecurID authentication?

Add the following two lines to the [Horizon] section of your .ini file:

authMethods=securid-auth && sp-auth

matchWindowsUserName=true

Add a new section at the bottom of your .ini file containing:

[SecurIDAuth]

serverConfigFile=C:\temp\sdconf.rec

externalHostName=192.168.0.90

internalHostName=192.168.0.90

The IP addresses should both be set to the IP address of UAG. The sdconf.rec file is obtained from RSA Authentication Manager (RSA-AM) which should be fully configured according to RSA documentation.

Make sure you are using UAG 2.5 or newer and that the RSA-AM server is accessible on the network from UAG.

If there is a firewall between UAG and your RSA Authentication Manager server, make sure it isn't blocking the communication. This is normally UDP 5500 from UAG to RSA-AM and the reply traffic.

Rerun uagdeploy PowerShell command to redeploy your UAG configured for RSA SecurID. Refer to VMware UAG RSA SecurID Authentication Setup Video for a full step-by-step description of this setup. Also Refer to the RSA Ready Certification Document for VMware UAG.

Note that when RSA SecurID is configured in the .INI file, then after deployment when UAG first starts up, it performs a check against RSA-AM. If RSA-AM is not available, or if DNS cannot resolve the hostname of RSA-AM referenced in the sdconf.rec file, or if a firewall is blocking the UDP port for this communication, this startup will fail. When this initial handshake fails, the RSA SecurID component on UAG remains disabled. You can open up the sdconf.rec file with a text editor and although it is a binary file, you can see the RSA-AM hostname(s). If you suspect a communication failure, you can log in to the console of UAG as root and run nslookup with that hostname to verify that it can be resolved. Once you have resolved any environment issues, just rerun the PowerShell command to redeploy UAG.

If you need to redeploy UAG with the PowerShell command when it was previously configured for RSA SecurID, then you must first "clear node secret" on RSA-AM so that trust can be re-established.

6. How do I configure UAG for RADIUS authentication?

Add the following two lines to the [Horizon] section of your .ini file:

authMethods=radius-auth && sp-auth

matchWindowsUserName=true

Add a new section at the bottom of your .ini file containing:

[RADIUSAuth]

hostName=192.168.0.100

authType=PAP

authPort=1812

radiusDisplayHint=XXX Token

For more information on these and other settings, refer to the sample uag4-radius.ini file in the latest uagdeploy ZIP file below. Also refer to the [RADIUSAuth] descriptions in the table above.

Make sure you are using UAG 2.5 or newer and that the RADIUS server is accessible on the network from UAG.

If there is a firewall between UAG and your RADIUS server, make sure it isn't blocking the communication. This is normally UDP 1812 from UAG to to the RADIUS server and the reply traffic.

Rerun uagdeploy PowerShell command to redeploy your UAG configured for RADIUS.

Note that when RADIUS is configured in the .INI file, then after deployment when UAG first starts up, it performs a check against the configured RADIUS server. If the server is not available or if a firewall is blocking communication, this startup will fail.

7. How do I configure UAG for Client Device certificate authentication?

Add the following line to the [Horizon] section of your .ini file:

authMethods=certificate-auth && sp-auth

Add a new section at the bottom of your .ini file containing:

[CertificateAuth]

pemCerts=C:\Users\Administrator\Documents\SSL\CA Certs\north-ca-256.cer

The .cer file is the public certificate authority (CA) certificate that was used to issue required client device certificates.

A client device certificate must be installed in the user or computer certificate store on the system where the Windows Horizon Client is installed. This proves the identity of the client computer. Unless the client supplies a valid certificate issued by this CA, then UAG will reject the connection with an error as shown below.

Client devices that do supply a valid certificate will get the normal user authentication prompt.

This feature is typically used to ensure that only Windows domain joined client computers can connect to desktops and applications via UAG. The client device certificates can be managed automatically as part of a Windows client machine enrolment policy.

For the Cryptographic Service Provider (CSP) specified in the certificate issuing template, use the "Microsoft Enhanced RSA and AES Cryptographic Provider". This supports SHA256 certificates and TLS 1.2. SHA1 is generally now considered too weak for authentication purposes so you should use SHA256.

For Windows to be able to use the certificate for client authentication purposes, the user on the client computer must have read access to the certificate private key. It is not necessary or desirable to make the private key exportable.

8. I get an error saying "Locator does not refer to an object"

This means that the target= value (used by vSphere OVF Tool) is not correct for your vCenter environment. Refer to the table above for examples of the target format used to refer to a vCenter host or cluster. If you are not sure of the names to use, you can start with the top level object, e.g. by specifying:

target=vi://administrator@vsphere.local:PASSWORD@192.168.0.21/

This will then show a list of possible names to use at the next level. You can then expand it, one level at a time based on this list.

target=vi://administrator@vsphere.local:PASSWORD@192.168.0.21/Datacenter1/

target=vi://administrator@vsphere.local:PASSWORD@192.168.0.21/Datacenter1/host

target=vi://administrator@vsphere.local:PASSWORD@192.168.0.21/Datacenter1/host/Cluster1/

or

target=vi://administrator@vsphere.local:PASSWORD@192.168.0.21/Datacenter1/host/esxhost1

Note that folder names, host names and cluster names used in the target value are case sensitive.

9. I get an error saying "Transfer failed and Error: failed to send http data"

This will happen if your target entry references an ESXi hostname that cannot be resolved by your local computer.

This will also happen if you are using a version of vSphere OVF Tool that is not compatible with the version of vSphere and vCenter you are using. I have seen this error after upgrading vSphere to version 6.5 where I was using an older 4.1.0 version of OVF Tool which is not compatible. In this case, the solution was to upgrade to OVF Tool version 4.2.0 or newer - see OVF Tool Software and Documentation.

For any questions on UAG, post a message on the discussion section of the Horizon community forum.

I'd like to update/enable the Lease (days) and Archive (days) Property values of a Blueprint and not having much success using the out-of-the-box "Create / update property to blueprint" Workflow in vRO.... I'm thinking this either can't be done or I'm not using the correct Property Names. At this point, I was only able to locate the following Properties:

__Cafe.Request.VM.LeaseDays

__Cafe.Request.VM.ArchiveDays

I am trying to avoid having to edit all my Blueprints on individual basis and apply changes globally.

Thx. Ron

I am using the diskadd command to add a disk to an existing VM.

My command looks like:

vim-cmd vmsvc/device.diskadd $idvm $newdisk scsi0 $unit $ds2

where:

$idvm = VM id

$newdisk = size

$ds2 = datastore

$unit= unit in scsi0

I see that the new disk is created either as a thin or a thick disk wiht no evident reason.

How does the command decide to create a thin or a thick disk?

How can I say to create a thin disk?

Regards

marius

This time on any ATA disk attached to the P420 (p420i) controller in HBA mode (hbamode=on):

2018-05-29T10:33:49.969Z cpu3:2098605 opID=25f29edd)World: 11942: VC opID 1d67307f maps to vmkernel opID 25f29edd

2018-05-29T10:33:49.968Z cpu3:2098605 opID=25f29edd)LVM: 12674: LVMProbeDevice failed with status "Device does not contain a logical volume".

2018-05-29T10:33:50.004Z cpu0:2097163)nhpsa: hpsa_vmkScsiCmdDone:6512: Sense data: error code: 0x70, key: 0x5, info:00 00 00 00 , cmdInfo:00 00 00 00 , CmdSN: 0xbef7, worldId: 0x0, Cmd: 0x16, ASC: 0x20, ASCQ: 0x0

2018-05-29T10:33:50.004Z cpu0:2097705)ScsiDeviceIO: 3029: Cmd(0x459a40cffc80) 0x16, CmdSN 0xbef7 from world 0 to dev "naa.55cd2e404b7784c7" failed H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0 Valid sense data: 0x5 0x20 0x0.

2018-05-29T10:33:50.006Z cpu3:2098605 opID=25f29edd)LVM: 10419: LVMProbeDevice failed on (3798550880, naa.55cd2e404b7784c7:1): Device does not contain a logical volume

2018-05-29T10:33:50.006Z cpu3:2098605 opID=25f29edd)FSS: 2350: Failed to create FS on dev [naa.55cd2e404b7784c7:1] fs [SSD] type [vmfs6] fbSize 1048576 => Not supported

All of my drives (both SAS and SATA) were cleaned with diskpart (select disk x then clean).  The SAS drives are fine but all three of my SATA drives behave as above.

Is this another case of needing to DBAN the drives before trying to work with them in ESXi?  partedUtil isn't helping with these...

I replaced drives in my machine and decided to start over.

It is weird... I can create one vm but no more... not sure what I am not doing right...

any guidance appreciated.. heading out with family so will be on later...

The portgroup for Network adapter 1, VM Network, could not be found. It has been assigned to VM Network.

This paper describes new performance enhancements and features included in vSphere 6.7, all in one place.

Also included on this page is the "What's New in Performance in vSphere 6.5?"

We have an older VDI environment where smart card behavior is as expected. We have a new VDI environment where smart card behavior is not as expected. When we open the Horizon client, we have both environments available. Insert a smart card, select the old environment and we're prompted for a PIN. Insert a smart cart, select the new environment in the same (or different) client session and we're prompted for a username and password. It's not getting to the individual pools so it can't be a pool setting.

Both environments have the same settings on each connection server.  Connection server settings > Authentication tab > View Authentication > Smart card auth for users (and admins) are both set to Optional.

Thanks for any help or suggestions.

Both env on different ESXi's, but same version - 6.0.0

Old env - Persona mgt

New env - UEM

Old env - agent, connection, security and composer servers - 7.1

New env - agent, connection, security and composer servers - 7.3.2

Hello:

I am testing out VMware PowerCLI 6.5 Release 1 on a new server
Everything seems to be working out except for one cmdlet that we are using in our scripts.

I understand that The Get-remotesession cmdlet was present in the old View module (and only works with powershell 2.0) and on the CS server only.

My question is there any similar cmdlet in 6.5.1?
Our current scripts queries the duration of a remote session.

PS C:\Users\administrator.VLAB> Get-RemoteSession

session          : 0
Username         : xxxx
pool_id          : xxxx
startTime        : Thu Feb 15 08:12:15 PST 2018
session_id       : xxxx
DNSName          : xxxx
duration         : 22 minutes
lastSessionTicks : -1223468
state            : CONNECTED
protocol         : BLAST

BTW, is there page that has a list of arguments that you can pass the VMware.HV.Helper cmdlets?

Thanks,
Chris

hello,

I am using wsdl function RelocateVM_Task (moveAllDiskBackingsAndAllowSharing) to relocated a vm,

I found when I relocated a vm to the place where it originally located, it will miss check its disk file existence.

I am not sure my guess is correct or not, anyone can help? thanks in advance.

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Một tiêu chí đầu tiên mà ta có thể khẳng định chất lượng của nệm Kymdan cực tốt chính là nằm ở phần công nghệ sản xuất của nó. Có thể nói để sản xuất ra được một sản phẩm nệm Kymdan, các kỹ sư đã phải trải qua vô vàn những thí nghiệm khác nhau cùng với một quy trình nghiên cứu khá chặt chẽ. Cho nên có thể nói nệm Kymdan được sản xuất trên một dây truyền và  kỹ thuật hiện đại, tiên tiến bậc nhất. Từ đó nhằm đem đến cho người tiêu dùng những sản phẩm nệm giúp chăm sóc giấc ngủ hoàn hảo nhất.

Hơn nữa hiện nay trên thị trường có khá nhiều thương hiệu nệm cao su thiên nhiên.Thế nhưng chưa hề có bất kì một thương hiệu nào dám mạnh dạn công bố tất cả các chỉ tiêu cụ thể, chi tiết như Kymdan. Và một điều đáng nói nữa là mọi thông số về độ cứng, độ bền kéo, độ dãn dài, hệ số lão hóa,  hàm lượng đồng đều đạt tiêu chuẩn quốc tế và được các chuyên gia nổi tiếng của những nước lớn như Nga, Mỹ, Pháp đánh giá cao.

Xem ngay: Địa chỉ mua đệm cao su kymdan uy tín nhất:https://demkymdanhanoi.vn/

             Nệm Kymdan - sản phẩm được ưa chuộng nhất hiện nay

Ngoài ra một tiêu chí nữa cũng làm nên uy tín của thương hiệu Kymdan còn chính là vì độ an toàn tuyệt đối của nó với sức khỏe con người. Có được điều này vì trong suốt quá trình sản xuất các nhà thiết kế đã xử lí rất kĩ càng mọi nguyên vật liệu nhằm mang lại sự an tâm hơn cho người sử dụng. Kèm với đó là một quá trình thanh lọc, khử trùng để tẩy đi hết các độc tố nên khi nằm trên đó sẽ không gây ra những tác dụng phụ như mẩn ngứa, sưng đỏ.

Bên cạnh đó đệm Kymdan còn được làm hoàn toàn từ 100% cao su thiên nhiên nên bề mặt vô cùng bằng phẳng, không  bị xẹp lún khi sử dụng nên rất thích hợp cho những người bị bệnh về xương khớp. Đặc biệt ở nệm Kymdan nó được thiết kế nguyên tấm với thành phần cao su đậm đặc chứ không giống như tất cả các loại nệm cao su khác đang có bán trên thị trường là hầu như chỉ phủ một lớp mousse rất mỏng trên bề mặt. Vì vậy khả năng nâng đỡ của nó hoàn toàn có thể xem là tuyệt đối thích hợp sử dụng cho các trẻ em trong giai đang phát triển mạnh về hệ cơ xương.

Chính vì thế khi sử dụng nó người nằm sẽ cảm thấy vô cùng êm ái, dễ chịu mang lại một sự thoải mái gần như tuyệt đối. Cho nên với những người bị chứng bệnh khó ngủ hay mất ngủ sử dụng các dòng sản phẩm nệm cao su kymdan sẽ vô cùng phù hợp. Bởi nó sẽ giúp giấc ngủ được ngon và sâu hơn.

Bên cạnh đó vì được làm hoàn toàn từ cao su thiên nhiên nên nó có độ bền hơn hẳn các loại nệm khác. Cụ thể là nếu người dùng biết giữ gìn và bảo quản tốt thời gian sử dụng có thể lên đến 25 năm. Tuy nhiên nếu như bạn chưa thực sự tin vào tuổi thọ của sản phẩm thì có thể tham khảo thêm ở địa chỉ trang web demkymdanhanoi.vnđể biết chi tiết.

Hơn thế nữa so với các thương hiệu nệm khác, mọi sản phẩm của Kymdan đều có chính sách bảo hành tối ưu. Vì thế mà nó được rất nhiều nhà chuyên môn đánh giá cao. Không chỉ vậy với một thời gian bảo hành lâu nhất trong các loại nệm hiện nay trên thị trường đã khiến khá nhiều đối thủ cạnh tranh khác phải khâm phục. Để biết cụ thể về chế độ này bạn có thể tham khảo theo địa chỉ trang web https://demkymdanhanoi.vn/dem-cao-su/.

Nệm Kymdan - sản phẩm được ưa chuộng nhất hiện nay

Ngoài ra bảng giá đệm kymdan cũng được cho là phù hợp với túi tiền của nhiều người tiêu dùng tại Việt Nam. Cho dù có một vài ý kiến vẫn đánh giá nó thuộc hàng cao cấp mắc tiền. Tuy nhiên nếu tính theo độ bền thì giá tiền đó còn quá rẻ.

2. Đại lý phân phối đệm kymdan chính hãng giá rẻ tại Hà Nội

Hiện nay do nhu cầu sử dụng nệm kymdan đang tăng cao nên có khá nhiều nơi đăng kí làm đại lí bán hàng chính hãng cho thương hiệu này. Tuy nhiên trong số đó nổi bật nhất chính là Thế Giới Đệm Việt. Bởi vì nơi đây mọi sản phẩm đều rất tốt, kinh doanh có uy tín và giá thành vô cùng rẻ. Ngoài ra mọi chính sách đổi trả hàng và các chương trình ưu đãi, tri ân khách hàng luôn rất rõ ràng. Cho nên mua hàng tại đây bạn sẽ không lo lắng đến vấn đề bị  mua lầm hàng nhái. Hoặc bị chặt chém, bị bom hàng hay những rủi ro như tiền thật hàng giả. Không những thế với một đội ngũ có kinh nghiệm nhiều năm chắc chắn sẽ giúp bạn chọn được một sản phẩm thật ưng ý.

Xem ngay:Cập nhật bảng giá nệm Kymdan mới nhất năm 2018 quà tặng hấp dẫn

Hy vọng với những gì bài viết vừa chia sẻ về đệm Kym sẽ cung cấp cho bạn thêm nhiều thông tin bổ ích. Nếu cần đặt hàng bạn hãy liên hệ với Thế Giới Đệm Việt nhé.

I have a 2 socket - 12 core Dell server (24 physical cores; 48 Virtual CPUs) server.

I intend on building 2 Windows 2016 servers. One will act as a SQL database (SAGE 300) and the other will act as a Web Server.

I have physically  2 TB (RAID 10) and 255 GB (SSD - RAID 1).

Anyone can give me some suggestions as to how to divide it up?...keeping in mind right now the priority is the dB server and in the future... a web server (at which point i can add additional disks + RAM)

thank you for insightful responses

I have two USB wireless network adapters -- NetGear WG111v3 and TP-Link TL-WN725N -- that I often attach (one at a time) to a VM.  The NetGear works flawlessly.  The TP-Link will sometimes work but other times it generates an error and becomes unusable -- even by the host OS.  The only remedy I have found is to un-plug / re-plug it.

I am using VMware Workstation 12 Player, version 12.5.0 build-4352439.  Both the host and guest OS are Windows 7, 64 bit.  The TP-Link is hardware version 2.

When the TP-Link fails, it no longer shows up in the host OS Device Manager.  On vague advice from Stack Overflow, I have disabled "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power" on the TP-Link USB Adapter Properties.  This had no effect.  I have contacted TP-Link and they have apparently reproduced the issue but are directing me to vmware.  So: is this something I can fix or work around with vmware settings?

Thanks,

-Steve

Is there a way to deploy NSX Edge with VRA build print, If so could you point me to the documentation.

FROM THE EDITORS VIRTUAL DESK
Hi everyone, welcome to this weeks VMware TAM newsletter. I have two items I wanted to provide some info on. The first is the HTML5 client for vSphere. This is used by many of you and as you know it is not yet at parity level with the full featured Flash version of the client. If you are wondering what the differences are and how to find out if a feature you need is missing here is a handy chart that provides this information.

The second item is regarding the ongoing Spectre/Meltdown issue and how VMware customers can use vROPS to their advantage in this situation. If you don't own vROPS you are able to get a trial edition as well as outlined in the article. This is a great use of our vROPS solution for a complicated and ongoing issue we re all facing.

Here is a link to this excellent article.

I hope these two articles are useful and I hope to bring you more like these in the next edition.

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Virtual Geek

• Its time for change, and change = renewed invention, renewed vigor, renewed discovery.
  I’m going to make this a two-part post. Part 1 = what is in the rear-view window? Part 2 = what’s out the front windshield? Part 1: CPSD and Dell EMC are in my rear-view window. First, while want to close the chapter behind me - it’s a flawed analogy, because it suggests some sort of “finality”. ...
• The best athletes (and VxBlock 1000) = faster, higher, stronger!
  In watching the Olympics, it’s amazing to see athletes doing amazing things – frankly it’s inspiring. Sometimes it’s a new star rising – something new (amazing Chloe Kim!) .   Sometimes it’s a veteran pulling a “Michael Phelps” – producing every 4 years (see Dutch speed skater Sven Kramer). I’m not...
• What a start to the year...
  It's been a crazy couple days on a couple fronts, but the most material front has certainly been Spectre and Meltdown. There are lots of sources, and the trick is that while distinctly the root cause lies in the CPU domain and with the CPU manufacturers- the impact touches nearly everything. It's b...
• To allTHANK YOU for 2017, and lets dream of 2018!
  To all my readers, all our customers and partners, all my colleagues, all my friends – heck my competitors, thank you for everything in 2017.   It was a year filled with change for me in the middle of a massive integration through the Dell acquisition – with a ton of learning, a ton of personal d...
• Looking forward to 2018: Vertical Stack Wars are upon us.
  This is part 3 of a 3-part blog series on things that I’m thinking about going into 2018. Warning – remember, Virtual Geek post are my musings, not an official company position.   They are officially my opinions – which means they aren’t worth more than 2 cents.  They aren’t authored by anyone...

Eric Sloof - NTPRO.NL

• Free eBook: Upgrading to VMware vSphere 6.5: Insights for vSphere Administrators
  This eBook is written for vSphere administrators looking for additional information to help plan and execute the upgrade process. It contains reference scenarios that explain upgrade concepts that can be applied to just about any situation, including upgrading from vSphere 5.5 to vSphere 6.5, ...
• Free e-learning course - Introduction to Apteligent
  This course details the features and benefits of Apteligent and describes its application in mobile app management.  You will gain the skills to make the most of the Apteligent software.  This course demonstrates how to access and navigate major components of the Apteligent user interface and ...
• VMware vSAN 6.6 Technical Introduction, White Paper and a Free Hands-on Lab
  New Technical White Paper: VMware vSAN 6.6 Technical Overview You can also explore vSAN’s features—data-encryption at rest, deduplication and compression, RAID 5/6 erasure encoding, iSCSI Target support and more—in a free Hands-on Lab, the fastest and easiest way to test-drive vSAN, no insta...
• VMware Cloud Briefing
  VMware and AWS leaders share essential updates, demos, and partners program news. Make sure you tune in to hear more about the bold strategy and global expansion on the horizon for VMware Cloud in 2018.   ...
• New Free eLearning Course: VMware NSX: What’s New [V6.4]
  This video-based training provides the details of the new features and product enhancements in NSX V6.4. The course walks you through the benefits of the new features, how to make use of the new functionality, and in some cases, how to troubleshoot these new capabilities. The objectives are: ...

Virten.net

• How to Install VMware vSphere Perl SDK on Debian 9 (stretch)
  Download the latest Perl SDK for your vSphere version from code.vmware.com and copy it to the system. The download is free, but an My VMware account is required. vSphere Perl SDK for vSphere 6.5 vSphere Perl SDK for vSphere 6.0 vSphere …Read more »...
• Homeserver - ESXi on HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10
  After Hewlett Packard Enterprise has missed offering a Microserver in their 9th Generation, it is now back in Gen10. The Microserver series provides affordable servers intended to be used in SMB and as home servers. Due to its low price and …Read more »...
• Fix for FreeNAS on HPE MicroServer Gen10 X3216 Stuck Console Issue
  When you try to install FreeNAS 11 on the new HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 X3216, the installer stops booting and appears to be stuck at: pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pcib0: _OSC returned error 0x10 pci0: <ACPI PCI …Read more »...
• Get- and Set-VMLatencySensitivity PowerShell Function
  The Get-VMLatencySensitivity, Get-VMLatencySensitivityBulk and Set-VMLatencySensitivity PowerShell functions configure can return and set the latency sensitivity level of a virtual machine. You can adjust the latency sensitivity of a virtual machine to optimize the scheduling delay for latency sensi...
• Critical Patch for All-Flash vSAN with Deduplication (6.0 and 6.5)
  VMware has released a critical patch for vSAN 6.0 and 6.5. This patch contains a fix for a highly critical vSAN issue that might cause IO read errors and in some cases severe symptoms such as inaccessible VMs, host failures, or stuck resyncs. The issue …Read more »...

vInfrastructure Blog

• Windows Server 2019 preview build
  Until now, Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 have got a similar build evolution during the years. But Windows 10 seems to maintain this trend of continuous improvements, Windows Server instead need a new name… Microsoft has announced that Windows Server 2019 will be generally available in the...
• What’s really define an HCI solution?
  Most people probably already know the terms Converged infrastructures (CI) and HyperConverged Infrastructures (HCI) that are both become quite common in the IT world, with several products and solutions that aim to be fit in those classifications. HCI has become a hot topic with several vendors that...
• CLI vs. GUI for VMware admins
  This is an article realized for StarWind blog and focused on the pro and cons of using GUI or CLI, with the example of VMware environment. See also the original post. In several cases, a user can choose to use the CLI or GUI, in other cases, for example for some specific tasks, maybe it’s possible t...
• Using Runecast on a vSAN environment
  Runecast Analyzer is a proactive issue detection software for VMware vSphere environments, powered by the largest database of automated VMware KB articles which feed its internal archive of known issues. With the new release version 1.7 the analysis is now extended also to vSAN environments and can ...
• vOneCloud version 3.0.5
  vOneCloud is an OpenNebula distribution optimized to work on existing VMware vCenter deployments to provide full cloud features. vOneCloud is distributed as a virtual appliance for vSphere. It contains all required OpenNebula services within a single CentOS Linux appliance. All components are fully ...

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NEWS AND DEVELOPMENTS FROM VMWARE

VMware Radius

• Learn How to Better Manage Complexity and Seamlessly Work Across Clouds
  Cloud-based technologies are transforming businesses and disrupting markets. Companies are able to leverage these advanced technologies to realize enormous benefits in the scalability, elasticity, and efficiency of their business operations. In addition, adopting the right cloud strategy can both im...
• Extending our Digital Workspace Intelligence Capabilities through Strategic M&A
  Shekar Ayyar, Executive Vice President, Strategy and Corporate Development and General Manager, Telco NFV Group Shekar Ayyar, EVP, Strategy and Corporate Development & GM, Telco NFV Group At VMware we believe firmly that security needs to be intelligently woven in as an intrinsic component of the ...
• The Evolution of the Digital Workspace Has Arrived
  Today, VMware announced new innovations to its VMware Workspace ONE digital workspace platform. According to Sumit Dhawan, the news goes far beyond technology updates, focusing on delivering innovative employee experiences that drive true digital transformation. “All too often, conversations about ...

VMware Open Source Blog

• 8 Quirky Open Source Projects to Tickle Your Funny Bone
  Not all open source projects are created equally. Many of them are valuable technologies, tackling complex issues from container compliance to deploying serverless applications to automating benchmarks for cloud infrastructure. Of course, this is only scratching the surface of the impact and range o...
• The Challenges of Maintaining a Large Open Source Project
  Today, Kubernetes is one of the fastest growing open source projects next to the Linux kernel, with over 130 commits each week—and that’s just to the main repository. It was recently announced that the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) voted for Kubernetes to become CNCF’s first project...
• Best Practices for Building Compliant Containers
  By Nisha Kumar, open source engineer, VMware As things stand, we do not have a fully declarative way of building containers. We can’t, in other words, make a specific list of software components that we want in a container image and build the container to match exactly that list. In manufacturing, w...

VMware vSphere Blog

• Are You a vSphere 6.5 Expert? Take the Quiz and Find Out!
  VMware vSphere 6.5 is the next-gen infrastructure platform for your next-gen apps. It provides a powerful, flexible, and secure foundation for business agility that accelerates the digital transformation to cloud computing and success in the digital economy. vSphere 6.5 supports both existing and n...
• New Resource – The VMware vSphere 6.5 Upgrade eBook
  Over the past year I have written several blog posts and conducted workshops on vSphere 6.5 upgrades. The intent was to help customers learn about the upgrade concepts and planning. Only by getting familiar with the concepts and planning accordingly will the execution be successful. Part of the upgr...
• Announcing the vSphere 6.5 Update 1 Security Configuration Guide
  I am really pleased to announce the availability of the 6.5 Update 1 Security Configuration Guide (SCG). Normally a new guide is done only for numbered releases and not updates but the number of security updates that have made it into 6.5 Update 1 has warranted this SCG release. Also, we want to sho...

Network Virtualization

• How NSX Is Tapping into the Human Element Behind Network Virtualization
    Virtualization can be a tricky concept for some people to wrap their heads around. Trying to explain the functionalities and benefits of technology like VMware NSX can quickly devolve into techno-babble. With that said, we’re trying to take another approach—a more human approach. Below are thre...
• Security for Public Clouds (AWS) with vRealize Network Insight
  Enterprise IT needs visibility into the network and security status of their workloads, whether hosted on premises, or within AWS. While many AWS workloads are sandboxes for application development teams (DevOps), it is important to analyze these workloads. Increasingly, public cloud workloads are a...
• Enhancing Application Performance with NSX
  The application performance gains resulting from migrating an infrastructure hosting multi-tier applications from a physical networking implementation to a NSX software-based one have been well documented.  Bob Goldsand and Todd Muirhead, from our  performance engineering team have been preaching ...

VMware Cloud Management

• Ovum: Picking your cloud management vendor just became easier
  Ovum has just published its latest Ovum Decision Matrix (ODM) for multi-cloud and hybrid cloud management for 2018-2019, and VMware’s vRealize Cloud Management Suite is the clear winner! Download the report here. Selecting a cloud management vendor for your growing cloud needs is a strategic de...
• Announcing: Wavefront and vRealize Operations Integration – Available with New vRealize Operations 6.7
  Wavefront and vRealize Operations: Empowering IT to partner with Application teams through shared visibility VMware is announcing the integration of Wavefront and vRealize Operations, with the new vRealize Operations 6.7 release. vRealize Operations 6.7 extends App Monitoring with Wavefront to Trad...
• Self-driving Operations: What’s New in vRealize Operations 6.7
  VMware vRealize Operation 6.7: Self Driving Operations for the Data Center Today, VMware announced the upcoming release of vRealize Operations 6.7, introducing several new and enhanced performance and capacity optimization capabilities to help customers adopt a ‘self-driving’ approach to operations...

Cloud-Native Apps

• Hello, Kubernetes 1.10
  By Vladimir Vivien, Staff Engineer and Clint Kitson, Director Open Source Engineering Kubernetes 1.10 is out! This release continues to move important features through the alpha, beta and stable feature gates. Speaking of milestones, did you notice that the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee voted ...
• Upcoming SREcon Features Cloud-Native Sessions
  Too many unreliable systems in your life? Take note of what’s happening at SREcon, an industry conference for site reliability engineers brought to you by USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association, which has been bringing together the community of engineers and systems administrators around...
• VMware Pivotal Container Service Hands-on Lab Is Now Live
  By Michael West, Technical Product Manager, VMware The Cloud-Native Apps Business Unit at VMware is pleased to announce that the VMware Pivotal Container Service Hands-on Lab, a new lab focused on Kubernetes and PKS, is now live. What Are VMware Hands-on Labs (HOL)? HOL comprises more than 80 ind...

VMware End-User Computing Blog

• Delivering Security and Scalability Across the Digital Workspace with Workspace ONE and F5 APM
  According to a recent Forbes Insights and VMware CIO survey, empowered employees – those who have easy access to their apps from any device, are nearly five times more likely to report gains in personal productivity compared to traditional employees. And empowered employees are nearly 2 times more l...
• Industry Expert Brian Madden Joins VMware EUC Team
  The VMware End-User Computing team has had an exciting couple of weeks as we introduced the industry’s first intelligence-driven digital workspace and announced the acquisition of the technology and team of E8 Security. However, we know that in addition to offering the best solutions at VMware, we a...
• Horizon Cloud Service on Microsoft Azure –Technical Walkthrough (Part 3) Adding your first Node
  In part 2 of this blog series, I walked through the required setup within Microsoft Azure for networking and service principle creation. In part 3 of the blog series, I will be walking you through the steps to deploy your first Node with Horizon Cloud Service on Microsoft Azure. The process is reall...

Support Insider

• New KB articles published for week ending 25th March 2018
  VMware vSphere Integrated Containers VCH creation wizard does not list any vSphere distributed switches in the dropdown list Date Published: 2018/03/19 VMware NSX for vSphere eBGP between DLR and Edge may experience a routing loop after upgrading to NSX-v 6.3.5 Date Published: 2018/03/20 VMwar...
• New KB articles published for week ending 18th March 2018
  VMware vRealize Business for Cloud Advanced Enabling and disabling local authentication for vRealize Business for Cloud Date Published: 2018/03/14 VMware vRealize Automation “HTTP Status 502” error when attempting to export the list of Managed Machines from the vRA Infrastructure tab Date Publi...
• New KB articles published for week ending 11th March 2018
  VMware SDDC Manager How to update the Cisco UCS C240 M5 servers in a VMware Cloud Foundation environment to allow for correct boot configuration Date Published: 2018/03/08 The VSAN and vMotion distributed port groups in a VMware Cloud Foundation environment have an incorrect MTU value Date Publi...
• Top 20 NSX articles for February 2018
  Virtual machine in ESXi is unresponsive with a non-paged pool memory leak Licensing vShield 1.x/5.0 VMs running on ESXi 5.5 with vShield endpoint activated fails during snapshot operations Performing vMotion or powering on a virtual machine being protected by vShield Endpoint fails When using ...
• Top 20 vSAN articles for February 2018
  Component metadata health check fails with invalid state error Best practices for vSAN implementations using Dell PERC H730 or FD332-PERC storage controllers vSAN Build Recommendation Engine Health fails Status of TLSv1.1/1.2 Enablement and TLSv1.0 Disablement across VMware products How to man...

Cloud Foundation

• VMware Cloud Foundation Architecture Poster 2.3
  VMware is pleased to release the latest VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) architecture poster. VCF is a fully automated, hyper-converged software stack that includes compute, storage, networking and cloud management. Because VCF has so many tightly integrated products, it is important to understand the ...
• HPE Synergy and VMware Cloud Foundation – now certified
  Author Bhumik Patel – Technical Alliances, VMware @bhumikp   Introduction: As customers leverage VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) to provide integrated Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) & cloud management services for running enterprise applications, it becomes critical to rely on an underlying pl...
• Cloud Foundation 2.3.1 Reaches General Availability
  VMware is pleased to announce the general availability of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 2.3.1. We’ve introduced several new features and provided fixes for issues identified in previous releases. I’d like to present a quick overview of the new features in Cloud Foundation 2.3.1 in this article. New...

EXTERNAL NEWS FROM 3RD PARTY BLOGGERS VMGuru

• VMware NSX & OTRS – Automating Security with Help Desk Systems
  Over the last couple of months, Sander, Anne Jan and I have been working on a security whitepaper that lays out a practical implementation of zero trust while interfacing with a helpdesk system. In this case, OTRS. It’s all about how engineers can get access... The post VMware NSX & OTRS...
• vExpert 2018 Announcement – All VMGurus now vExperts
  The VMware Social team announced the vExpert class of 2018 yesterday. With the acceptance of Dimitri into the vExpert program, I’m proud to say that all the VMGurus are now vExperts: vExpert Directory Some crazier than others, Erik has been a vExpert for a decade... The post vExpert 2018 Anno...
• Deploying VeloCloud on VMware vSphere
  Hopefully you’ve heard the good news that VMware has acquired VeloCloud, including SD-WAN into the software-defined portfolio. This is especially exciting to me, as I get to branch out a little more into the WAN space, being in the Networking & Security BU. For me,... The post Deploying V...
• PowervRNI is now on PowerShell Gallery
  PowerShell is about making things easy and consumable. Same goes for PowervRNI, making repetitive tasks in vRealize Network Insight easier and make it possible to extract information from vRNI. It’s not that easy to load a custom module into PowerShell though, you have to download... The post...
• How to build a Hyper-Available Infrastructure – Part 1: Overview
  In today’s digital world we highly depend on services and their corresponding data to be available 24/7. We are frantic about our digital life and demand the underlying infrastructures to be Hyper-available. While traveling through the region to visit customers and partners, I am highly... The post...

virtuallyGhetto

• Getting started with VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) Part 5: PKS Control Plane
  Continuing with our PKS installation, we are now going to finish up with configuring and deploying the PKS Control Plane Tile which provides a frontend API that will be used by Cloud/Platform Operators to easily interact with PKS for provisioning and managing (create, delete, list, scale up/down) Ku...
• Getting started with VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) Part 4: Ops Manager & BOSH
  In this article, we will begin our PKS installation by deploying Pivotal Ops Manager which provides a management interface (UI/API) for Cloud/Platform Operators to manage the complete lifecycle of both BOSH and PKS from install, patch and upgrade. In addition, you can also deploy new application ser...
• Getting started with VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) Part 3: NSX-T
  In this article, we are now going to start configuring NSX-T so that it will be ready for us to install PKS and consume the networking and security services provided by NSX-T. The result is that PKS can deliver on demand provisioning of all NSX-T components: Container Network Interface (CNI), NSX-T ...
• ESXi host with network redundancy using NSX-T and only 2 pNICs?
  In todays data centers, it is not uncommon to find servers with only 2 x 10GbE network interfaces, this is especially true with the rise of Hyper-Converged Infrastructure over the last several years. For customers looking to deploy NSX-T with ESXi, there is an important physical network constraint t...
• Getting started with VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) Part 2: PKS Client
  In this article, we will configure the various command-line tools that will be used to interact with the PKS Platform which will then be consumed by either the Operators (managing the PKS infrastructure) and/or the the Developers (consumers of the Kubernetes Clusters). Below is a quick summary, desc...

ESX Virtualization

• VMware vRealize Operations 6.7 Announced
  A new release of VMware vRealize Operations 6.7 (vROPs) has been announced. As usual, we do not have the exact release date, but we have the details concerning what’s new in this release and how that will help VMware admins to manage vSphere environments. The product will provide troubleshooting det...
• Hybrid IT With Active-Active Cloud Storage – StarWind Solution
  We have already written about StarWind VTL which allows you to create air-gapped backups to blob storage. But Hyper-V admins using on-premises only instances might be interested in having a supported scenario with an active-active cloud storage in Azure. In fact, the shared storage between on-prem i...
• Swiss Knife MobaXterm for Remote Administration Has also free version
  For remote administration, there are tons of tools around. Paid and free. Today we’ll have a look at MobaXterm which is one of them. Previously we looked at few other tools such as mRemoteNG or RoyalTS. Remote administration is daily bread and butter of every IT admin so to test different software s...
• VMware App Volumes Reviewer Guide – Grab Your Free Copy
  Reviewer guides are very popular as they have step-by-step install/config guidance so whether you just doing a POC or trying to deploy it in the lab, it saves your time. You don’t have to search through the manual to understand the ins and outs. You have the guidance. VMware App Volumes Reviewer Gui...
• Windows Server 2019 Announced
  A new announce from Microsoft about an upcoming release of Windows Server 2019. The product is in an early stage of development but there has been quite a lot of details published already. No, Microsoft isn’t leaving the server space so Windows Server 2019 will not be free, but prepare to pay more f...

CormacHogan.com

• Getting started with Cloudera Hadoop on vSphere
  This past week, my buddy Paudie and I have been neck-deep in Cloudera/Hadoop, with a view to getting it successfully deployed on vSphere. The purpose of this was solely a learning exercise, to try to understand what operational considerations need to be taking into account when running Hadoop on top...
• A closer look at VMware’s latest Cloud Launch
  Today VMware has another cloud launch update, and this one is significant for many reasons. Our underlying goals of VMware Cloud are many. From an infrastructure perspective, the goal is to provide operational consistency no matter where the application is running, whether this is from an automation...
• Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI), Sustainability and Green IT
  I’m sure it will come as no surprise to many readers that virtualization has brought (and continues to bring) huge benefits with regards to data center efficiency. I’m sure you are all aware of how virtualization allows you to do more with your servers; no more single server – single application par...
• Which policy changes can trigger a rebuild on vSAN?
  Some time ago, I wrote about which policy changes can trigger a rebuild of an object. This came up again recently, as it was something that Duncan and I covered in our VMworld 2017 session on top 10 vSAN considerations. In the original post (which is over 3 years old now), I highlighted items like i...
• A first look at AWS Greengrass on vSphere
  Last week, I had the pleasure to attend our CTO Ambassadors conference, hosted by our Global Field CTO Chris Wolf. This was an excellent week, especially for someone like me who works directly for a single business unit at VMware. It gave me great insight into the activities going on in our other bu...

Scott's Weblog

• The Future is Containerized
  Last week I announced my departure from VMware, and my intention to step away from VMware’s products and platforms to focus on a new technology area moving forward. Today marks the “official” start of a journey that’s been building for a couple years, a journey that will take...
• Technology Short Take 97
  Welcome to Technology Short Take 97! This Tech Short Take marks the end of an era (sort of); it’s the last Tech Short Take published while I’m a VMware employee (today is my last day; see here for more details). But enough about me—let’s talk some tech! This Short Take may be...
• Time to Evolve
  I first started getting into VMware around 2003, possibly earlier (I can’t recall exactly when it was). I remember thinking that VMware’s impact on the industry was going to be significant, and I wanted to be part of this industry change. I was right—virtualization like what VMware...
• Interop ITX, Dell Technologies World, and Spousetivities
  Spousetivities will be present at two additional events this year—in fact, these events are only about 6 weeks away! Both Dell Technologies World and Interop ITX are in Las Vegas the last week of April (both starting April 30), and Spousetivities is running events for both conferences. <as...
• Technology Short Take 96
  Welcome to Technology Short Take 96! Ahead, lying in wait, is a unique collection of links, articles, and thoughts about various data center technologies. Browse if you dare…OK, so I’m being a bit melodramatic. It’s still some good stuff here! Networking Via Matt Oswalt and Mic...

Welcome to vSphere-land!

• Is 2018 the year of VVols?
  Next month VMware’s new Virtual Volumes (VVols) storage architecture will turn 3 years old as it was released as part of vSphere 6.0 in March of 2015. Since it’s initial release adoption has been very slow, I believe VMware estimates less than 2% of customers are using VVols. So will 201...
• VMworld 2018 Call For Papers is open – here’s how to get people to vote for and attend your session
  VMware just announced that the Call for Papers for VMworld 2018 is now open until March 13th. Just like last year, this year VMware has opened early compared to the usual March-April period of years past. Remember VMworld US is again back in Vegas this year at the Mandalay Bay from Aug. 26th-30th, V...
• Automating Storage Provisioning using VMware vRealize Orchestrator
  I finally got my company to get on board with an external webinar platform and I get to kick off the very first webinar on BrightTalk.The topic is on vRealize Orchestrator integration with the 3PAR platform as an example, I promise this will be a technical webinar and not a sales pitch so if you  ...
• A new job for me and reflecting on 2017
  2017 was a bit of a tough year for me mainly due to the major surgery that my daughter Sophia had and the subsequent very painful recovery from it. I’d have to say that was one of the most difficult and stressful things that I have been through in my life and I am very … Continue readin...
• 2017 VVols year in review
  I tend to write a lot about VMware VVols these days as I believe VMware’s new storage architecture has many benefits and VVols is the future of storage for vSphere. In this post I thought I would highlight and recap some of the posts that I did in 2017 related to VVols and you have … Co...

Virtual Geek

• Its time for change, and change = renewed invention, renewed vigor, renewed discovery.
  I’m going to make this a two-part post. Part 1 = what is in the rear-view window? Part 2 = what’s out the front windshield? Part 1: CPSD and Dell EMC are in my rear-view window. First, while want to close the chapter behind me - it’s a flawed analogy, because it suggests some sort of “finality”. ...
• The best athletes (and VxBlock 1000) = faster, higher, stronger!
  In watching the Olympics, it’s amazing to see athletes doing amazing things – frankly it’s inspiring. Sometimes it’s a new star rising – something new (amazing Chloe Kim!) .   Sometimes it’s a veteran pulling a “Michael Phelps” – producing every 4 years (see Dutch speed skater Sven Kramer). I’m not...
• What a start to the year...
  It's been a crazy couple days on a couple fronts, but the most material front has certainly been Spectre and Meltdown. There are lots of sources, and the trick is that while distinctly the root cause lies in the CPU domain and with the CPU manufacturers- the impact touches nearly everything. It's b...
• To allTHANK YOU for 2017, and lets dream of 2018!
  To all my readers, all our customers and partners, all my colleagues, all my friends – heck my competitors, thank you for everything in 2017.   It was a year filled with change for me in the middle of a massive integration through the Dell acquisition – with a ton of learning, a ton of personal d...
• Looking forward to 2018: Vertical Stack Wars are upon us.
  This is part 3 of a 3-part blog series on things that I’m thinking about going into 2018. Warning – remember, Virtual Geek post are my musings, not an official company position.   They are officially my opinions – which means they aren’t worth more than 2 cents.  They aren’t authored by anyone...

Eric Sloof - NTPRO.NL

• NSX east west traffic optimization with the DLR
  The Universal Distributed Logical Router is installed in the kernel of every ESXi host, as such it requires a VM to provide the control plane. The universal distributed logical router Control VM is the control plane component of the routing process, providing communication between NSX Manage...
• Free eBook: Upgrading to VMware vSphere 6.5: Insights for vSphere Administrators
  This eBook is written for vSphere administrators looking for additional information to help plan and execute the upgrade process. It contains reference scenarios that explain upgrade concepts that can be applied to just about any situation, including upgrading from vSphere 5.5 to vSphere 6.5, ...
• Free e-learning course - Introduction to Apteligent
  This course details the features and benefits of Apteligent and describes its application in mobile app management.  You will gain the skills to make the most of the Apteligent software.  This course demonstrates how to access and navigate major components of the Apteligent user interface and ...
• VMware vSAN 6.6 Technical Introduction, White Paper and a Free Hands-on Lab
  New Technical White Paper: VMware vSAN 6.6 Technical Overview You can also explore vSAN’s features—data-encryption at rest, deduplication and compression, RAID 5/6 erasure encoding, iSCSI Target support and more—in a free Hands-on Lab, the fastest and easiest way to test-drive vSAN, no insta...
• VMware Cloud Briefing
  VMware and AWS leaders share essential updates, demos, and partners program news. Make sure you tune in to hear more about the bold strategy and global expansion on the horizon for VMware Cloud in 2018.   ...

Virten.net

• How to Install VMware vSphere Perl SDK on Debian 9 (stretch)
  Download the latest Perl SDK for your vSphere version from code.vmware.com and copy it to the system. The download is free, but an My VMware account is required. vSphere Perl SDK for vSphere 6.5 vSphere Perl SDK for vSphere 6.0 vSphere …Read more »...
• Homeserver - ESXi on HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10
  After Hewlett Packard Enterprise has missed offering a Microserver in their 9th Generation, it is now back in Gen10. The Microserver series provides affordable servers intended to be used in SMB and as home servers. Due to its low price and …Read more »...
• Fix for FreeNAS on HPE MicroServer Gen10 X3216 Stuck Console Issue
  When you try to install FreeNAS 11 on the new HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 X3216, the installer stops booting and appears to be stuck at: pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pcib0: _OSC returned error 0x10 pci0: <ACPI PCI …Read more »...
• Get- and Set-VMLatencySensitivity PowerShell Function
  The Get-VMLatencySensitivity, Get-VMLatencySensitivityBulk and Set-VMLatencySensitivity PowerShell functions configure can return and set the latency sensitivity level of a virtual machine. You can adjust the latency sensitivity of a virtual machine to optimize the scheduling delay for latency sensi...
• Critical Patch for All-Flash vSAN with Deduplication (6.0 and 6.5)
  VMware has released a critical patch for vSAN 6.0 and 6.5. This patch contains a fix for a highly critical vSAN issue that might cause IO read errors and in some cases severe symptoms such as inaccessible VMs, host failures, or stuck resyncs. The issue …Read more »...

vInfrastructure Blog

• What is Redfish?
  Redfish is an open industry standard specification, API and schema developed by DMTF (SPMF) group that specifies RESTful interface and utilizes JSON and OData. Redfish has been designed to deliver simple and secure management for converged, hybrid IT and the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC). Crea...
• DataWorks Summit 2018 Berlin
  DataWorks Summit (formelly Hadoop Summit) is the industry’s premier big data community event with both an European and US edition, organized annualy by Hortonworks Inc, an independent company, formed in June 2011 and funded by $23 million venture capital from Yahoo! and Benchmark Capital. The last E...
• April 2018 IT events
  Interesting European IT events: MPLS + SDN + NFV World – Paris (Apr 10-13) DataWorks Summit – Berlin (Apr 16-19) Microsoft TechSummit – Stockolm (Apr 17-18) IoT Tech Expo Global – London (Apr 18-19) TECHunplugged – Amsterdam (Apr 19) Telco Cloud Forum 2018 – Londo...
• The reborn of Violin Systems
  Many people probably remember Violin Memory and it’s products, probably one of the first in the All Flash Array (AFA) field. Founded in 2005 as Violin Technologies by Donpaul Stephens and Jon Bennett. I’ve talk about them several times (see for example this 2012 post: Powering the cloud ...
• BranchScope: a new vulnerability for Intel CPU
  Now that Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities are almost fixed, there is a new critical vulnerability for several Intel CPU called BranchScope, discovered by some researchers from four universities. It’s again a speculative execution issue, in the method a processor uses to predict where its c...

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NEWS AND DEVELOPMENTS FROM VMWARE

VMware Radius

• Q&A with Women Who Code’s Jennifer Tacheff on Women in Tech
  Women of Silicon Valley brought together industry trailblazers last month to share their stories on the importance of female role models within the tech sphere. A significant discussion at the conference centered around creating strategies for addressing the gender gap, measuring the effectiveness o...
• Hutto ISD Embraces a New Generation of Security While Offering New Digital Experiences to Students
  Hutto Independent School District is one of the fastest growing public school districts in Hutto, Texas. With over 7,000 students and 1,000 staff members, it is growing at about five percent a year and welcomes approximately 300 new students each year. However, with the surge in enrollment and the i...
• Beyond the Hype Cycle: What Can We Really Expect with 5G?
  The idea of the innovator’s dilemma comes from Harvard professor Clayton Christensen who argues that successful companies can do everything right but still lose market leadership when unexpected competitors emerge, disrupt, and take over markets. As an antidote, he advises that leading companies eng...

VMware Open Source Blog

• How Tern Can Make Your Compliance Chores More Interesting
  I am the maintainer of a neat little open source project called Tern. It inspects a container image and finds the metadata of the packages that are installed in it. This information can be used to solve some basic container compliance issues created by container build tools. This previous blog post,...
• Beyond Code: Five “Secret” Practices for Open Source Success
  You’ve scrubbed your code, completed your patches, tested and tested again. So, now you are ready to open source your code, right? Maybe not. See, achieving open source success is more complex than that. There are factors beyond code that you could—indeed should—be thinking about to maximize your pr...
• Helm Chart for Harbor 1.4.0 Is Now Ready – and Merged into the Harbor GitHub Repo
  Project Harbor is a popular open source enterprise-class registry server that stores and distributes Docker images. Kubernetes Helm is a widely used tool for managing Kubernetes charts, i.e. packages of pre-configured Kubernetes resources. In response to user demand, the Harbor team has been working...

VMware vSphere Blog

• New vSphere 6.5 DRS White Paper released
  This week I published a new white paper about vSphere 6.5 DRS. Most customers have been using vSphere DRS for over a decade, yet the technology is updated with each vSphere release. vSphere 6.5 contains plenty of new options that align with today’s use of virtualization. This whitepaper provides an ...
• Are You a vSphere 6.5 Expert? Take the Quiz and Find Out!
  VMware vSphere 6.5 is the next-gen infrastructure platform for your next-gen apps. It provides a powerful, flexible, and secure foundation for business agility that accelerates the digital transformation to cloud computing and success in the digital economy. vSphere 6.5 supports both existing and n...
• New Resource – The VMware vSphere 6.5 Upgrade eBook
  Over the past year I have written several blog posts and conducted workshops on vSphere 6.5 upgrades. The intent was to help customers learn about the upgrade concepts and planning. Only by getting familiar with the concepts and planning accordingly will the execution be successful. Part of the upgr...

Network Virtualization

• NSX-T Automation with Terraform
  Do you want to maintain your network and security infrastructure as a code? Do you want to automate NSX-T? One more option has been just added for you! Following my previous post about NSX-T: OpenAPI and SDKs you might have figured out how easy it is to generate different language bindings for NSX-...
• VMware Cloud on AWS with Direct Connect: NSX Networking and vMotion to the Cloud with Demo
  Check out my prior below blogs here on VMware Network Virtualization blog on how NSX is leveraged in VMware Cloud on AWS to provide all the networking and security features. These prior blogs provide a foundation that this blog post builds on. In this blog post I discuss how AWS Direct Connect can b...
• How NSX Is Tapping into the Human Element Behind Network Virtualization
    Virtualization can be a tricky concept for some people to wrap their heads around. Trying to explain the functionalities and benefits of technology like VMware NSX can quickly devolve into techno-babble. With that said, we’re trying to take another approach—a more human approach. Below are thre...

VMware Cloud Management

• vRealize Suite Featured on New VCF 2.3 Architecture Poster
  A recently-released VMware Cloud Foundation Architecture Poster 2.3 focuses on vRealize Suite that is now part of VCF 2.3! Cloud Management is core and center to a successful hybrid cloud. Therefore, VMware vRealize Suite – named the best Cloud Management Platform in this analyst’s research – is fe...
• VMware Application Proxy: Manage Your Wavefront Telegraf Agents with vRealize Operations 6.7
  In his blog post last week, Henry Guo introduced a new integration between Wavefront and vRealize Operations 6.7, to extend application monitoring with Wavefront to provide IT control and developer agility. This is a fantastic new capability that allows customers using vRealize Operations 6.7 to ...
• Workload Optimization – The Key to your Self-Driving Datacenter!
  vRealize Operations 6.7 is here and it comes loaded with great new features that will make your life better!  Included in these is an improved capacity engine to help you better manage your environment, integrated cost analysis so you know how much your environment actually costs and where you can s...

Cloud-Native Apps

• Spring is in the air. Join VMware at the Boston Cloud Foundry Summit!
  The Boston Cloud Foundry Summit kicks off on April 18 with the Cloud Foundry User Day. Organized as an unconference, this is the meeting place for Cloud Foundry users to share ideas, best practices and lessons learned. All Cloud Foundry users and prospective users are invited to attend! VMware will...
• Hello, Kubernetes 1.10
  By Vladimir Vivien, Staff Engineer and Clint Kitson, Director Open Source Engineering Kubernetes 1.10 is out! This release continues to move important features through the alpha, beta and stable feature gates. Speaking of milestones, did you notice that the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee voted ...
• Upcoming SREcon Features Cloud-Native Sessions
  Too many unreliable systems in your life? Take note of what’s happening at SREcon, an industry conference for site reliability engineers brought to you by USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association, which has been bringing together the community of engineers and systems administrators around...

VMware End-User Computing Blog

• Virtualization and Digital Workspaces Helps University of Arkansas Succeed
  From eight scholars in 1872, the University of Arkansas has grown to more than 27,000 students and over 4,500 faculty and staff. That growth spiked over the past seven years when the university added more than 10,000 students and its reputation for a great education at low cost began to attract more...
• Horizon Cloud Service on Microsoft Azure –Technical Walkthrough (Part 4) Creating an Image for Use with RDSH Servers (or VDI Desktops)
  In part 3 of this blog series, I walked through the steps to get your first Horizon Cloud Service Node deployed into Microsoft Azure, along with domain joining it. In part 4 of the blog series, I will walk you through the steps to create a published image that can be used to deliver desktop and appl...
• [Deep Dive] New Features in AirWatch 9.3 & Identity Manager 3.2
  Today’s post covers the new features for VMware Workspace ONE provided in the VMware AirWatch 9.3 and VMware Identity Manager 3.2 releases. Workspace ONE unifies Identity Manager access control and application management and AirWatch unified endpoint management (UEM) technology into a single platfo...

Support Insider

• New KB articles published for week ending 8th April 2018
  VMware vRealize Operations Manager Horizon Dashboards display “No Data” in vRealize Operations Manager 6.x. Date Published: 2018/04/03 VMware SDDC Manager VMware Cloud Foundation update for environments upgraded from 2.1.x to 2.3.x Date Published: 2018/04/05 VMware Cloud Foundation update for ...
• Top 20 vSAN articles for March 2018
  Component metadata health check fails with invalid state error Best practices for vSAN implementations using Dell PERC H730 or FD332-PERC storage controllers vSAN Build Recommendation Engine Health fails Status of TLSv1.1/1.2 Enablement and TLSv1.0 Disablement across VMware products “The ramdi...
• Top 20 NSX articles for March 2018
  Guest Introspection memory usage spikes to 90+% or you see the error: “Lost communication with ESX module” in NSX-V 6.2.x and 6.3.x Deploying NSX Controller fails in NSX-v 6.3.3 and 6.3.4 Troubleshooting vShield Endpoint / NSX Guest Introspection ESXi 5.5 and 6.0 hosts fail with a PSOD: VMCIEve...
• Top 20 vSphere articles for March 2018
  vCenter Appliance root Partition 100% full due to Audit.log files not being rotated “invalid credentials LDAP Error 49” error when starting Inventory Services in vCenter Server 6.x Important information before upgrading to vSphere 6.5 Unable to log in to the root account of vCenter Server Appli...
• New KB articles published for week ending 1st April 2018
  VMware NSX for vSphere “using –physdev-out in the OUTPUT, FORWARD and POSTROUTING chains for non-bridged traffic is not supported anymore” reported in NSX Edge logs Date Published: 2018/03/30 NETSCOUT vSCOUT For NSX-v 6.2 and 6.3 Date Published: 2018/03/27 VMware vSphere Integrated Containers ...

Cloud Foundation

• Patching Made Easy with VMware Cloud Foundation
  A common challenge faced by every IT department is keeping up with the inevitable and never-ending flow of software updates. This becomes even more critical in a modern Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC), where compute, network and storage virtualization are interwoven into a unified data center fa...
• VMware Cloud Foundation Architecture Poster 2.3
  VMware is pleased to release the latest VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) architecture poster. VCF is a fully automated, hyper-converged software stack that includes compute, storage, networking and cloud management. Because VCF has so many tightly integrated products, it is important to understand the ...
• HPE Synergy and VMware Cloud Foundation – now certified
  Author Bhumik Patel – Technical Alliances, VMware @bhumikp   Introduction: As customers leverage VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) to provide integrated Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) & cloud management services for running enterprise applications, it becomes critical to rely on an underlying pl...

EXTERNAL NEWS FROM 3RD PARTY BLOGGERS VMGuru

• Managing Puppet code with a source control repository
  Last couple of months I’ve been working closely with Puppet. I wrote some blogs about it, recorded a VMware vRA Expert Talk video and had two successful events in the Netherlands where I presented and demo’ed the Puppet Enterprise integration with VMware vRealize Automation. For... The ...
• VMware NSX & OTRS – Automating Security with Help Desk Systems
  Over the last couple of months, Sander, Anne Jan and I have been working on a security whitepaper that lays out a practical implementation of zero trust while interfacing with a helpdesk system. In this case, OTRS. It’s all about how engineers can get access... The post VMware NSX & OTRS...
• vExpert 2018 Announcement – All VMGurus now vExperts
  The VMware Social team announced the vExpert class of 2018 yesterday. With the acceptance of Dimitri into the vExpert program, I’m proud to say that all the VMGurus are now vExperts: vExpert Directory Some crazier than others, Erik has been a vExpert for a decade... The post vExpert 2018 Anno...
• Deploying VeloCloud on VMware vSphere
  Hopefully you’ve heard the good news that VMware has acquired VeloCloud, including SD-WAN into the software-defined portfolio. This is especially exciting to me, as I get to branch out a little more into the WAN space, being in the Networking & Security BU. For me,... The post Deploying V...
• PowervRNI is now on PowerShell Gallery
  PowerShell is about making things easy and consumable. Same goes for PowervRNI, making repetitive tasks in vRealize Network Insight easier and make it possible to extract information from vRNI. It’s not that easy to load a custom module into PowerShell though, you have to download... The post...

virtuallyGhetto

• Getting started with VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) Part 7: Harbor
  Now that we have a functional PKS deployment, an optional but very useful add-on to deploy and integrate with PKS is the VMware Harbor solution. Harbor is an Enterprise-class container registry that customers can run within their own Datacenter to securely store and provide access to container image...
• How to access the Kubernetes Dashboard UI for a VMware PKS Managed K8S Cluster?
  As some of you may have noticed I have been spending some time working with VMware PKS and Google's Kubernetes (K8S). In fact, I have an entire blog series which you can find below if you are interested. Getting started with VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) Part 1: Overview Getting started wit...
• Getting started with VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) Part 6: Kubernetes Go!
  In this article, we will walk through the two workflows, one from the perspective of the Cloud/Platform Operator and how to create a new PKS Cluster to how it will be consumed by the Developer which is simply accessing the Kubernetes API endpoint and does not have to know anything about how it was p...
• Converting a vSphere Content Library from Subscriber to a Publisher?
  This is a blog post on some old Content Library research which I had looked into several months back for a customer inquiry and realized I never got a chance to write about. When you create a Subscriber Content Library (CL) which synchronize content from a Published CL, the Subscriber CL is basicall...
• Getting started with VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) Part 5: PKS Control Plane
  Continuing with our PKS installation, we are now going to finish up with configuring and deploying the PKS Control Plane Tile which provides a frontend API that will be used by Cloud/Platform Operators to easily interact with PKS for provisioning and managing (create, delete, list, scale up/down) Ku...

ESX Virtualization

• Project Honolulu and Windows Server 2019
  We were playing with Windows Server 2019 (Tech Preview) in the lab, as well as with Project Honolulu. The Windows Server 2019 was installed on vSphere 6.5 in the lab, as a new VM with default settings of Windows Server 2016. As you can imagine, everything worked as it should. After installing VMware...
• Multiple Points in Time of a VM within VMware vSphere Replication (VR)
  vSphere Replication which is present within a VMware product suite since a long time. It is a built-in feature of VMware ESXi hypervisor. However, it’s only an additional deployment and configuration of vSphere Replication appliances which “sits” between two ESXi hosts which actually enables that re...
• Setup Faster and more secure DNS Resolution With CloudFlare
  If you don’t know CloudFlare you’re missing out. I’m using their service for years for my ESX Virtualization blog. They provide with DNS resolution, caching, security, SSL, analytics. Tons of services (free and paid). Today we’ll talk about how to Setup Faster DNS Resolution With CloudFlare. In fact...
• DBeaver is an SQL client and a database administration tool – Free Alternative to SQL Server Management Studio
  We’re getting some questions lately about Free alternatives to Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio. Yesterday’s post was one of the tools which are available – Microsoft SQL Operations Studio – Free Tool. That was a tool from Microsoft. But there are others. One of them is DBeaver which is a mult...
• Microsoft SQL Operations Studio – Free Tool
  There is a new free software from Microsoft (preview for now) which allows you to manage databases. As you know, previously I have blogged about 5 Free Alternatives to Microsoft SQL Management Studio, so this post is kind of a follow up on that. Microsoft SQL Operations Studio can manage SQL Server,...

CormacHogan.com

• Building a simple ESXi host overlay network with NSX-T
  I’ve recently begun to look at NSX-T. My long-term goal is to use it to enable me to build multiple Kubernetes clusters used PKS, the Pivotal Container Service. The hope is then to look at some cool storage related items with Kubernetes. But first things first. Kudos to both Sam McGeown and William ...
• Getting started with Cloudera Hadoop on vSphere
  This past week, my buddy Paudie and I have been neck-deep in Cloudera/Hadoop, with a view to getting it successfully deployed on vSphere. The purpose of this was solely a learning exercise, to try to understand what operational considerations need to be taking into account when running Hadoop on top...
• A closer look at VMware’s latest Cloud Launch
  Today VMware has another cloud launch update, and this one is significant for many reasons. Our underlying goals of VMware Cloud are many. From an infrastructure perspective, the goal is to provide operational consistency no matter where the application is running, whether this is from an automation...
• Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI), Sustainability and Green IT
  I’m sure it will come as no surprise to many readers that virtualization has brought (and continues to bring) huge benefits with regards to data center efficiency. I’m sure you are all aware of how virtualization allows you to do more with your servers; no more single server – single application par...
• Which policy changes can trigger a rebuild on vSAN?
  Some time ago, I wrote about which policy changes can trigger a rebuild of an object. This came up again recently, as it was something that Duncan and I covered in our VMworld 2017 session on top 10 vSAN considerations. In the original post (which is over 3 years old now), I highlighted items like i...

Scott's Weblog

• The Future is Containerized
  Last week I announced my departure from VMware, and my intention to step away from VMware’s products and platforms to focus on a new technology area moving forward. Today marks the “official” start of a journey that’s been building for a couple years, a journey that will take...
• Technology Short Take 97
  Welcome to Technology Short Take 97! This Tech Short Take marks the end of an era (sort of); it’s the last Tech Short Take published while I’m a VMware employee (today is my last day; see here for more details). But enough about me—let’s talk some tech! This Short Take may be...
• Time to Evolve
  I first started getting into VMware around 2003, possibly earlier (I can’t recall exactly when it was). I remember thinking that VMware’s impact on the industry was going to be significant, and I wanted to be part of this industry change. I was right—virtualization like what VMware...
• Interop ITX, Dell Technologies World, and Spousetivities
  Spousetivities will be present at two additional events this year—in fact, these events are only about 6 weeks away! Both Dell Technologies World and Interop ITX are in Las Vegas the last week of April (both starting April 30), and Spousetivities is running events for both conferences. <as...
• Technology Short Take 96
  Welcome to Technology Short Take 96! Ahead, lying in wait, is a unique collection of links, articles, and thoughts about various data center technologies. Browse if you dare…OK, so I’m being a bit melodramatic. It’s still some good stuff here! Networking Via Matt Oswalt and Mic...

Welcome to vSphere-land!

• Is 2018 the year of VVols?
  Next month VMware’s new Virtual Volumes (VVols) storage architecture will turn 3 years old as it was released as part of vSphere 6.0 in March of 2015. Since it’s initial release adoption has been very slow, I believe VMware estimates less than 2% of customers are using VVols. So will 201...
• VMworld 2018 Call For Papers is open – here’s how to get people to vote for and attend your session
  VMware just announced that the Call for Papers for VMworld 2018 is now open until March 13th. Just like last year, this year VMware has opened early compared to the usual March-April period of years past. Remember VMworld US is again back in Vegas this year at the Mandalay Bay from Aug. 26th-30th, V...
• Automating Storage Provisioning using VMware vRealize Orchestrator
  I finally got my company to get on board with an external webinar platform and I get to kick off the very first webinar on BrightTalk.The topic is on vRealize Orchestrator integration with the 3PAR platform as an example, I promise this will be a technical webinar and not a sales pitch so if you  ...
• A new job for me and reflecting on 2017
  2017 was a bit of a tough year for me mainly due to the major surgery that my daughter Sophia had and the subsequent very painful recovery from it. I’d have to say that was one of the most difficult and stressful things that I have been through in my life and I am very … Continue readin...
• 2017 VVols year in review
  I tend to write a lot about VMware VVols these days as I believe VMware’s new storage architecture has many benefits and VVols is the future of storage for vSphere. In this post I thought I would highlight and recap some of the posts that I did in 2017 related to VVols and you have … Co...

Virtual Geek

• Its time for change, and change = renewed invention, renewed vigor, renewed discovery.
  I’m going to make this a two-part post. Part 1 = what is in the rear-view window? Part 2 = what’s out the front windshield? Part 1: CPSD and Dell EMC are in my rear-view window. First, while want to close the chapter behind me - it’s a flawed analogy, because it suggests some sort of “finality”. ...
• The best athletes (and VxBlock 1000) = faster, higher, stronger!
  In watching the Olympics, it’s amazing to see athletes doing amazing things – frankly it’s inspiring. Sometimes it’s a new star rising – something new (amazing Chloe Kim!) .   Sometimes it’s a veteran pulling a “Michael Phelps” – producing every 4 years (see Dutch speed skater Sven Kramer). I’m not...
• What a start to the year...
  It's been a crazy couple days on a couple fronts, but the most material front has certainly been Spectre and Meltdown. There are lots of sources, and the trick is that while distinctly the root cause lies in the CPU domain and with the CPU manufacturers- the impact touches nearly everything. It's b...
• To allTHANK YOU for 2017, and lets dream of 2018!
  To all my readers, all our customers and partners, all my colleagues, all my friends – heck my competitors, thank you for everything in 2017.   It was a year filled with change for me in the middle of a massive integration through the Dell acquisition – with a ton of learning, a ton of personal d...
• Looking forward to 2018: Vertical Stack Wars are upon us.
  This is part 3 of a 3-part blog series on things that I’m thinking about going into 2018. Warning – remember, Virtual Geek post are my musings, not an official company position.   They are officially my opinions – which means they aren’t worth more than 2 cents.  They aren’t authored by anyone...

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• New Book - VMware NSX Cookbook
  This book written by Bayu Wibowo and Tony Sangha begins with a brief introduction to VMware's NSX for vSphere Network Virtualization solutions and how to deploy and configure NSX components and features such as Logical Switching, Logical Routing, layer 2 bridging and the Edge Services Gateway. ...
• vRealize Operations 6.7 - Workload Optimization Overview
  vRealize Operation's new Workload Optimization feature is a main component of your self-driving datacenter.  The idea behind a self-driving datacenter is you just define your business and operational intent and then "take your hands off the wheel" and let vRealize Operations drive.  It will m...
• VMware NSX 6.4 - Application Rule Manager Enhancements
  With the release of VMware NSX 6.4, we have made several enhancements to the Application Rule Manager including improved context awareness, automatic recommendations for firewall rule sets, and easier and faster time to value for Day 2 operations. In this video, we’ll go through the enhancem...
• NSX east west traffic optimization with the DLR
  The Universal Distributed Logical Router is installed in the kernel of every ESXi host, as such it requires a VM to provide the control plane. The universal distributed logical router Control VM is the control plane component of the routing process, providing communication between NSX Manage...
• Free eBook: Upgrading to VMware vSphere 6.5: Insights for vSphere Administrators
  This eBook is written for vSphere administrators looking for additional information to help plan and execute the upgrade process. It contains reference scenarios that explain upgrade concepts that can be applied to just about any situation, including upgrading from vSphere 5.5 to vSphere 6.5, ...

Virten.net

• How to Install VMware vSphere Perl SDK on Debian 9 (stretch)
  Download the latest Perl SDK for your vSphere version from code.vmware.com and copy it to the system. The download is free, but an My VMware account is required. vSphere Perl SDK for vSphere 6.5 vSphere Perl SDK for vSphere 6.0 vSphere …Read more »...
• Homeserver - ESXi on HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10
  After Hewlett Packard Enterprise has missed offering a Microserver in their 9th Generation, it is now back in Gen10. The Microserver series provides affordable servers intended to be used in SMB and as home servers. Due to its low price and …Read more »...
• Fix for FreeNAS on HPE MicroServer Gen10 X3216 Stuck Console Issue
  When you try to install FreeNAS 11 on the new HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 X3216, the installer stops booting and appears to be stuck at: pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pcib0: _OSC returned error 0x10 pci0: <ACPI PCI …Read more »...
• Get- and Set-VMLatencySensitivity PowerShell Function
  The Get-VMLatencySensitivity, Get-VMLatencySensitivityBulk and Set-VMLatencySensitivity PowerShell functions configure can return and set the latency sensitivity level of a virtual machine. You can adjust the latency sensitivity of a virtual machine to optimize the scheduling delay for latency sensi...
• Critical Patch for All-Flash vSAN with Deduplication (6.0 and 6.5)
  VMware has released a critical patch for vSAN 6.0 and 6.5. This patch contains a fix for a highly critical vSAN issue that might cause IO read errors and in some cases severe symptoms such as inaccessible VMs, host failures, or stuck resyncs. The issue …Read more »...

vInfrastructure Blog

• VMware vForum Online 2018
  VMware vForum Online provides expert insight that can help drive innovation for your organization. It’s a must-attend event for IT professionals who are driving their digital transformation and building a hyper-converged IT infrastructure. It includes virtual exhibits, a keynote presentation, ...
• What is Swordfish?
  Storage management is something unique and quite depending by the storage vendor. Solutions like VMware Virtual Volumes can simplify it by providing a common interface, but it’s more on the usage and consuming part, rather than the storage management part. The SNIA (Storage Network Industry As...
• Datrium releases DVX 4.0
  Datrium announced the shipment of DVX 4.0 Software, the third major software release in less than a year. Datrium DVX converges Tier 1 hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) with scale-out backup and cloud disaster recovery (DR) and Cloud-Native Data Services. Datium promises that DVX enables up to 10 ...
• Rubrik launches Polaris SaaS platform
  Rubrik has announced the launch of Rubrik Polaris, a SaaS platform for Data Management Applications. Rubrik Polaris delivers a unified system of record across all business applications and data for seamless security, compliance, and governance. Rubrik Polaris revolutionizes the data management marke...
• Redfish support for DellEMC PowerEdge
  Redfish is the new standard, promoted by Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), for secure and scalable server management automation. With Redfish, the challenges of expanded scale, higher security, and multi-vendor openness are managed, while also enabling automation with modern DevOps tools and...

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Hi,

Can anyone validate or confirm they are successfully using vRealize Automation 7.4 together with Infoblox and Tom Bonanno's custom hostname extension (https://dailyhypervisor.com/vrealize-automation-custom-hostnaming-extension/ )

Initial success has now been met with intermittent failures which I cannot determine the cause of. I have not been able to get a support statement from Infoblox for vRA 7.4.

Provisioning, naming, IPAM all works 70% of the time. But approx 30% of the time the Infoblox IPAM Update workflow fails with a IPAM Provider Error:{"code":3000,"mesage":"An error has occurred while updating the A/AAAA/PTR/CNAME records 'throwIpamError#28'

Suffice to say the Infoblox Audit log shows the same events when either success or failure occur, except as the workflow in vRO fails the IPAM then deletes its records and the provisioning is a complete fail.

Infoblox master is managing a member which has sync to a MS AD integrated DNS zone in Read/Write.

Cheers

FROM THE EDITORS VIRTUAL DESK
Hi everyone, well last week was a bumper week for VMware releases including the GA Release of VMware vSphere 6.7 including:

• vCenter Server
• vCenter Server Appliance
• VMware Update Manager
• VMware ESXi

For our 20th anniversary VMware launches their most secure, efficient and ground-breaking virtualization platform, vSphere 6.7.

Product Overview
Simple and Efficient Management, at Scale vSphere 6.7 delivers an exceptional experience for the user with an enhanced vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA). It introduces several new APIs that improve the efficiency and experience to deploy vCenter, to deploy multiple vCenters based on a template, to make management of vCenter Server Appliance significantly easier, as well as for backup and restore.

Simplifying the vCenter Server topology through vCenter with embedded platform services controller in enhanced linked mode

vSphere 6.7 vCSA delivers phenomenal performance improvements (all metrics compared at cluster scale limits, versus vSphere 6.5):

• 2X faster performance in vCenter operations per second
• 3X reduction in memory usage
• 3X faster DRS-related operations (e.g. power-on virtual machine)
• Speed up host reboots with vSphere Quick Reboot
• PMEM for DRAM-like speeds at flash-like prices
• TPM 2.0 and enhanced vSphere Encryption
• Embedded vROps Dashboards
• Embedded PSC & Certificate Management UIs
• Nvidia Grid GPU sharing for non-VDI workloads

And much more…

Lots more info on the vSphere blogs page.

TAM CUSTOMER WEBINAR - vSPHERE 6.7!
Registration link: https://vmware.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8e01B8TNT1utREL2gbYqfA

May 2018 - vSphere 6.7
Date: Thursday, May 17th
Time: 11:00am EST/ 10:00am CST/ 8:00am PST
Duration: 1.5 Hour

Synopsis:
Please join us Thursday, May 17th as Adam Eckerle dives into what’s new in the recent vSphere 6.7 release. vSphere 6.7 provides an efficient and secure platform for your hybrid cloud. Join Adam as he provides a closer look at how vSphere 6.7 delivers efficient management at scale, platform security, enhances even more applications, and lays the foundation for a seamless hybrid cloud.

Guest speakers:
Adam Eckerle manages the vSphere Technical Marketing team in the Cloud Platform Business Unit at VMware. This team is responsible for vSphere launch, enablement, and ongoing content generation for the VMware field, Partners, and Customers. In addition, Adam’s team is also focused on preparing Customers and Partners for vSphere upgrades through workshops, VMUGs, and other events


Ready to upgrade, want more info, discuss with your TAM today and start enjoying the benefits of the latest features in vSphere 6.7.

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FROM THE EDITORS VIRTUAL DESK
Hi everyone and welcome to another feature packed TAM Newsletter. Do you know that VMware has a large Open Source presence on Github? Take a look at https://vmware.github.io and you will find all of our Open Source Software projects for you to browse, contribute to and download. One of my favorites is the Clarity Design System. This is a full HTML and CSS framework for building experiences. It is provided as Open Source and is a very active project with many releases which you can follow on Twitter @VMwareClarity.

I hope you find these useful and urge you to take a look at the catalog at https://vmware.github.io.

I wish you all a fantastic week ahead.

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VMware Radius

• VMware Cloud Providers Put Hybrid Cloud Benefits Within Easy Reach
  Over a half million organizations worldwide run their IT infrastructure with VMware technologies. To accelerate their transition to the hybrid cloud, VMware partners with over 4,100 top cloud providers across more than 110 countries, including IBM. The vast number of companies already running the V...
• Best Employers 2018: VMware Named #21 by Forbes
  Where are the Best Places to Work? Each year, Forbes partners with market research company Statista to poll 30,000 U.S. employees. With this data, the companies compile a country-wide ranking of the best employers of 2018. This year, VMware is excited to announce that the company ranks #21 on Forbe...
• Next Major Cloud Markets Could Be Least Expected
  Duncan Hewett, senior vice president and general manager for VMware in Asia Pacific and Japan, shares his insights from on the ground. As organizations in developing countries leapfrog to advanced technologies, conditions are ripening for nascent markets to surge ahead with the cloud. Today’s deve...

VMware Open Source Blog

• VMware’s Dirk Hohndel on Why the Crux of Open Source Is Always People
  KubeCon EU took Copenhagen by storm last week, and VMware was on-hand to display many of our open source projects and hold a week-long series of open source office hours that attracted many KubeCon attendees. Of particular note, VMware Chief Open Source Officer Dirk Hohndel delivered a keynote addre...
• Announcing the IoT Analytics Benchmark
  By Dave Jaffe, performance engineering, VMware Now available from VMware, the IoT Analytics Benchmark is a simulation of data analytics being performed in real-time on an Internet of Things data stream (i.e. factory machines being monitored for impending failure conditions) using a machine learning ...
• Why Network Segmentation Leads to an Overall More Secure Home Network
  We are living at the start of a golden age of computing. Prices have plummeted on computational costs, it’s gotten much simpler to build electronic devices and we’re almost at the point where simple sensors and some compute are disposable. Just look at your favorite retailer for proof of all the thi...

VMware vSphere Blog

• Upgrade Considerations for VMware vSphere 6.7
  Upgrading to VMware vSphere 6.7 With the recent excitement of vSphere 6.7 being released to the public, it’s only natural that a lot of discussion has revolved around upgrades. How do we upgrade, or even why should we upgrade have been the most popular questions recently. In this post I will cover ...
• vSphere and VMware Cloud on AWS at Dell Technologies World 2018
  Are you planning to attend Dell Technologies World this year? So is the vSphere team! We’re excited to be part of the show, and to talk about all the ways the latest version of vSphere can help you support the demands of your business customers. Do you have questions? We would love to meet with you ...
• Introducing VMware vSphere 6.7!
  We are excited to share that today VMware is announcing vSphere 6.7, the latest release of the industry-leading virtualization and cloud platform. vSphere 6.7 is the efficient and secure platform for hybrid clouds, fueling digital transformation by delivering simple and efficient management at scale...

Network Virtualization

• Boston Medical Center Secures Electronic Patient Records with VMware NSX
    Boston City Hospital and Boston University Medical Center Hospital merged in 1996 to form Boston Medical Center (BMC).  This 497-bed teaching hospital in the South End of Boston provides primary and critical care to a diverse population and houses the largest Level 1 trauma center in New Englan...
• Micro-segmentation Starter Kit
  Traditional security solutions are designed to protect the perimeter.  As applications and data are becoming increasingly distributed, they are often spanning not only multiple sites, but also multiple clouds.  This is making it harder to identify where the perimeter actually is in order to secure i...
• Two-Factor Authentication with VMware NSX-T
  In a previous post, I covered how to integrate NSX-T with VMware Identity Manager (vIDM) to achieve remote user authentication and role-based access control (RBAC) for users registered with a corporate Active Directory (AD).   On this post, I’m showing how add two-factor authentication (2FA) for N...

VMware Cloud Management

• May 16th Webinar: More Usability Improvements of vRealize Automation and vRealize Life Cycle Manager
  On May 16th, we will be hosting another Getting More Out of VMware webinar. The webinar is designed for Cloud Administrators and VI Administrators who leverage vRealize Suite products, such as vRealize Automation,  to run their virtual infrastructure and cloud environment. It will be a great opportu...
• Decision Driven Provisioning with Anything as a Service (XaaS)
  Decision Driven Provisioning with XaaS To me, the power of vRealize Automation has always been how easy it is to take square pegs and fit them into round holes. Generally this capability comes in the form of leveraging “Anything as a Service”, also known as XaaS. XaaS allows you to take any vRealiz...
• Customizing request forms using the new Custom Forms
  Custom Forms is a new future in vRA 7.4. They give you the opportunity to redesign and apply a new look and fill for vRA forms. They provide a rich set of features, such as the ability to re-order the components in the form, many different types of field validations, the ability to use generic compo...

Cloud-Native Apps

• Enable the Easy Button to Bridge the Worlds of Containers and VMs — Watch Pat Gelsinger’s Keynote at Dell Technologies World on VMware Pivotal Container Service
  Ning Ge, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Cloud-Native Apps, VMware At last week’s Dell Technologies World, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger delivered a keynote speech on stage where he talked about Pivotal Container Service (PKS), the Kubernetes solution brought to you by VMware with Pivotal, in collaborati...
• Red Hat Summit returns to the City by the Bay
  By Susan Wu, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Cloud-Native Apps On the heels of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe, we’re following up on the cloud-native momentum and heading to the City by the Bay for Red Hat Summit, May 8-10, 2018. We have two theater sessions devoted to the synergies between Kub...
• VMware Pivotal Container Service Journeys to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe
  By Susan Wu, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Cloud-Native Apps We’re following up our VMware SIG announcement with some exciting plans for our presence at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Copenhagen. On the heels of the last Cloud Foundry Summit in Boston, we’re starting to see the Cloud Foundry an...

VMware End-User Computing Blog

• A Sneak-peek at App Volumes 2.14
  App Volumes 2.14 In App Volumes 2.14, we are delivering innovation in three key areas: Improved security Volume attachment performance for improved user experience User data management In addition, starting with this current release, App Volumes will support Windows 10 Semi-Annual Channel (...
• Announcing a More Secure, Productive Experience Across VMware Boxer and Office 365
  If you read the EUC blog regularly, you’re probably already aware that the Workspace ONE platform supports a wealth of integrations across platforms, devices, security, apps, identity and more. Today, I’m excited to announce a new solution that bridges the security and experience of the Workspace ON...
• What’s New with Horizon 7 – VMWare Cloud on AWS, JMP Workflow, and More!
  We’re excited to announce Horizon 7.5 – with this release we continue to raise the bar for management simplicity. Customers rely on Horizon 7 for large-scale deployments of virtual desktops and applications in the enterprise, making management simplicity very important – it means less time and expen...

The Support Insider

• New KB articles published for week ending 6th May 2018
  VMware vRealize Operations Manager Unable to select virtual distributed switch port groups while deploying vRealize Operations Manager through the plugin UI in vCenter Date Published: 2018/04/30 Cassandra corrupted system schema files in vRealize Operations Manager 6.x Date Published: 2018/04/30 VMw...
• Top 20 vSAN articles for April 2018
  Component metadata health check fails with invalid state error Best practices for vSAN implementations using Dell PERC H730 or FD332-PERC storage controllers vSAN Build Recommendation Engine Health fails Status of TLSv1.1/1.2 Enablement and TLSv1.0 Disablement across VMware products “The ramdisk “v...
• Top 20 NSX articles for April 2018
  Deploying NSX Controller fails in NSX-v 6.3.3 and 6.3.4 Guest Introspection memory usage spikes to 90+% or you see the error: “Lost communication with ESX module” in NSX-V 6.2.x and 6.3.x ESXi 5.5 and 6.0 hosts fail with a PSOD: VMCIEventDelayedDispatchCB@com Status of TLSv1.1/1.2 Enablement and TL...
• Top 20 vSphere articles for April 2018
  vCenter Appliance root Partition 100% full due to Audit.log files not being rotated “invalid credentials LDAP Error 49” error when starting Inventory Services in vCenter Server 6.x Important information before upgrading to vSphere 6.5 Unable to log in to the root account of vCenter Server Appliance...
• New KB articles published for week ending 29th April 2018
  VMware vRealize Automation vRealize Automation Management Interface: IaaS Certificates: “Error calling OpenSSL tools.” after upgrading to 7.3 Date Published: 2018/04/23 VMware SDDC Manager VMware Cloud Foundation ESXi host upgrade fails at VUM_STAGE_TAKE_BACKUP Date Published: 2018/04/23 A NETWORK_D...

Cloud Foundation

• Patching Made Easy with VMware Cloud Foundation
  A common challenge faced by every IT department is keeping up with the inevitable and never-ending flow of software updates. This becomes even more critical in a modern Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC), where compute, network and storage virtualization are interwoven into a unified data center fa...
• VMware Cloud Foundation Architecture Poster 2.3
  VMware is pleased to release the latest VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) architecture poster. VCF is a fully automated, hyper-converged software stack that includes compute, storage, networking and cloud management. Because VCF has so many tightly integrated products, it is important to understand the ...
• HPE Synergy and VMware Cloud Foundation – now certified
  Author Bhumik Patel – Technical Alliances, VMware @bhumikp   Introduction: As customers leverage VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) to provide integrated Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) & cloud management services for running enterprise applications, it becomes critical to rely on an underlying pl...

EXTERNAL NEWS FROM 3RD PARTY BLOGGERS virtuallyGhetto

• Cool browser plugin for Dark Theme vSphere H5 Client
  While catching up on my news feed early this morning, I came across a really slick browser plugin developed by Jens L. that enables a "Dark" theme for the vSphere HTML5 Client (h5client). If you use either Chrome or Firefox, simply visit Bery's Github site here to get a link to the plugin. Once the ...
• Changes to vSphere Client Login UI customizations in vSphere 6.7
  For those that have customized their vSphere Client Login UI using the instructions here and here, it looks like the process can not be applied to the vSphere 6.7 release. From what I can tell, it looks like we have now consolidated the various WAR files into a single file /usr/lib/vmware-sso/vmware...
• Getting started with VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) Part 11: Application Monitoring
  In this blog post, we will take a look at using VMware Wavefront, a recent acquisition, that is a leading SaaS based metrics and monitoring solutions for Cloud Native Applications. Wavefront supports monitoring Kuberenetes (K8S) and many other applications, but what is really neat about Wavefront is...
• Getting started with VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) Part 10: Infrastructure Monitoring
  In this blog post, we go through and configure VMware vRealize Operations Manager (vROps) which Cloud Admins/Platforms Operators can take advantage of to help with monitoring and alerting on the underlying PKS infrastructure (compute, storage & networking). In addition, through the use of vROps ...
• New Instant Clone Architecture in vSphere 6.7 – Part 2
  In the previous article, I provided an overview of the new "Parentless" Instant Clone feature which was introduced in vSphere 6.7 and some of the architectural differences between prior versions of Instant Clone. In this post, I will show you how to use the new Instant Clone feature, which is curren...

ESX Virtualization

• VMUG is Free, but VMUG Advantage With EVAL Experience is Better for a Reasonable $200/Year
  This has been in my draft for ages and I apologize for that not publish about this earlier. I’m sure that most likely everyone knows, BUT just to make sure that all my readership gets the message too. Today I’d like to highlight that VMUG is Free, but VMUG Advantage With EVAL Experience is Better [&...
• Win an all-expenses-paid trip to VMworld US or Europe
  VMware HOL organizes a raffle which will end in about a week (24th of May). You can win a trip to VMworld US or Europe (your choice) by taking a HOL lab. Not only a trip to VMworld but all-expenses paid (travel and hotel). The announcement says “Take any eligible Hands-on Lab and enter to win [̷...
• Upgrade ESXi 6.x to 6.7 via CLI – Two methods
  After yesterday’s upgrade ESXi 6.x to 6.7 via ISO, which is the easiest method, today we’ll explore two other ones of upgrade ESXi 6.x to 6.7 via CLI. One of the methods will use directly the Internet so you’ll need an Internet connection on the host you’ll want to upgrade. The second method will us...
• How To Upgrade ESXi 6.x to 6.7 via ISO
  Today a quick lab post which shows how simple is to upgrade VMware ESXi 6.x to 6.7 via ISO image. There are several ways of upgrading standalone ESXi hosts, and via the ISO image it’s just so simple that I wanted to show this for the newcomers and people who just starting with VMware technology. [&#...
• VMware vCSA 6.7 Appliance Backup Setup and Schedule
  One of the new features present in vSphere 6.7 appliance (vCSA 6.7) is the possibility to setup a schedule for backups. Previous releases has had already the backup feature built-in but not the backup schedule. In this post we will eplore the VMware vCSA 6.7 appliance backup setup and schedule. Befo...

CormacHogan.com

• Next steps with NSX-T Edge – Routing and BGP
  If you’ve been following along on my NSX-T adventures, you’ll be aware that at this point we have our overlay network deployed, and our NSX-T edge has been setup to with DHCP servers attached to my logical switch, which in turn provides IP addresses to my virtual machines. This is all fine and well,...
• Performance Checklist now available for vSAN benchmarking
  Hot on the heels of the vSAN 6.7 release, a new performance checklist for vSAN benchmarking has now been published on our StorageHub site. This is the result of a project that I started a few months back with my colleague, Paudie O’Riordan. It builds upon a huge amount of groundwork that was already...
• My highlights from KubeCon and CloudNativeCon, Europe 2018
  This week I attended KubeCon and CloudNativeCon 2018 in Copenhagen. I had two primary goals during this visit: (a) find out what was happening with storage in the world of Kubernetes (K8s), and (b) look at how people were doing day 2 operations, monitoring, logging, etc, as well as the challenges on...
• PKS – Networking Setup Tips and Tricks
  In my previous post, I showed how to deploy Pivotal Container Services (PKS) on a simplified flat network. In this post, I will highlight some of the issues one might encounter if you wish to deploy PKS on a more complex network topology. For example, you may have vCenter Server on a vSphere managem...
• A simple Pivotal Container Service (PKS) deployment
  This post will walk you through a simplified PKS (Pivotal Container Service) deployment in my lab. The reason why I say this is simplified is because all of the components will be deployed on a single flat network. PKS has a number of network dependencies. These include the bosh agents deployed on t...

Scott's Weblog

• Technology Short Take 99
  Welcome to Technology Short Take 99! What follows below is a collection of various links and articles about (mostly) data center-related technologies. Hopefully something I’ve included will be useful. Here goes! Networking David Gee makes the connection between coffee and network automation...
• Installing GitKraken on Fedora 27
  GitKraken is a full-featured graphical Git client with support for multiple platforms. Given that I’m trying to live a multi-platform life, it made sense for me to give this a try and see whether it is worth making part of my (evolving and updated) multi-platform toolbelt. Along the way, thoug...
• An Updated Look at My Multi-Platform Toolbelt
  In early 2017 I posted about my (evolving) multi-platform toolbelt, describing some of the applications, standards, and services that I use across my Linux and macOS systems. In this post, I’d like to provide an updated review of that toolbelt. Visual Studio Code: I switched from Sublime Tex...
• Technology Short Take 98
  Welcome to Technology Short Take #98! Now that I’m starting to get settled into my new role at Heptio, I’ve managed to find some time to pull together another collection of links and articles pertaining to various data center technologies. Feedback is always welcome! Networking VMware...
• List of Kubernetes Folks on Twitter
  Earlier this morning, I asked on Twitter about good individuals to follow on Twitter for Kubernetes information. I received quite a few good responses (thank you!), and I though it might be useful to share the list of the folks that were recommended across all those responses. The list I’ve c...

Welcome to vSphere-land!

• Top vBlog 2018 starting soon, make sure your site is included
  I’ll be kicking off Top vBlog 2018 very soon and my vLaunchPad website is the source for the blogs included in the Top vBlog voting each year so please take a moment and make sure your blog is listed.  Every year I get emails from bloggers after the voting starts wanting to be added but … Con...
• Configuration maximum changes in vSphere 6.7
  A comparison using the Configuration Maximum tool for vSphere shows the following changes between vSphere 6.5 & 6.7. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]...
• Important information to know before upgrading to vSphere 6.7
  vSphere 6.7 is here and with support for vSphere 5.5 ending soon (Sept.) many people will be considering upgrading to it. Before you rush in though there is some important information about this release that you should be aware of. First let’s talk upgrade paths, you can’t just upgrade f...
• vSphere 6.7 Link-O-Rama
  Your complete guide to all the essential vSphere 6.7 links from all over the VMware universe. Bookmark this page and keep checking back as it will continue to grow as new links are added everyday. Also be sure and check out the Planet vSphere-land feed for all the latest blog posts from the Top 100 ...
• Summary of What’s New in vSphere 6.7
  Today VMware announced vSphere 6.7 coming almost a year and a half after the release of vSphere 6.5. Doesn’t look like the download is quite available yet but it should be shortly. Below is the What’s New document from the Release Candidate that summarizes most of the big things new in t...

Virtual Geek

• Its time for change, and change = renewed invention, renewed vigor, renewed discovery.
  I’m going to make this a two-part post. Part 1 = what is in the rear-view window? Part 2 = what’s out the front windshield? Part 1: CPSD and Dell EMC are in my rear-view window. First, while want to close the chapter behind me - it’s a flawed analogy, because it suggests some sort of “finality”. ...
• The best athletes (and VxBlock 1000) = faster, higher, stronger!
  In watching the Olympics, it’s amazing to see athletes doing amazing things – frankly it’s inspiring. Sometimes it’s a new star rising – something new (amazing Chloe Kim!) .   Sometimes it’s a veteran pulling a “Michael Phelps” – producing every 4 years (see Dutch speed skater Sven Kramer). I’m not...
• What a start to the year...
  It's been a crazy couple days on a couple fronts, but the most material front has certainly been Spectre and Meltdown. There are lots of sources, and the trick is that while distinctly the root cause lies in the CPU domain and with the CPU manufacturers- the impact touches nearly everything. It's b...
• To allTHANK YOU for 2017, and lets dream of 2018!
  To all my readers, all our customers and partners, all my colleagues, all my friends – heck my competitors, thank you for everything in 2017.   It was a year filled with change for me in the middle of a massive integration through the Dell acquisition – with a ton of learning, a ton of personal d...
• Looking forward to 2018: Vertical Stack Wars are upon us.
  This is part 3 of a 3-part blog series on things that I’m thinking about going into 2018. Warning – remember, Virtual Geek post are my musings, not an official company position.   They are officially my opinions – which means they aren’t worth more than 2 cents.  They aren’t authored by anyone...

Eric Sloof - NTPRO.NL

• vRealize Automation 7.4 What's New
  VMware vRealize Automation 7.4 continues to improve the speed and ease of automating delivery of your IT services with the introduction of Custom Forms, OVF Blueprints, Optimized Placement with vRealize Operations and MUCH MORE! ...
• vSAN Effective Capacity
  https://kauteetech.github.io/vsancapacity/ ...
• VMware Education releases new training courses
  VMware education has released new training courses that align with the recent release of vSphere 6.7. They are also offering a brand-new training course for Network Insight and the 6.4 version of the NSX ICM and troubleshooting course.  VMware vSphere: What's New [V5.5 to V6.7] VMware vSph...
• Free e-learning course - VMware Horizon Cloud Fundamentals (2018)
  This course explains the architecture, features, benefits, and functionality of the two service offerings of Horizon Cloud, VMware Horizon Cloud Service with Hosted Infrastructure and VMware Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure.   The objectives are: Explain how Horizon Cloud delivers desktops ...
• User Profiles as a Service - Getting Desktops to the Cloud & Ready for DaaS
  The folks over at Liquidware have come up with another first in our industry with their latest version of ProfileUnity, 6.7.6. They’ve included in this latest release the first ever enterprise cloud storage solution for user profiles. What does this mean to users and admins though? Well, Deskt...

Virten.net

• vCenter Service Appliance 6.7 Tips and Tricks
  VMware is moving their vCenter Server from Windows to the Linux based Photon OS. The following tips and tricks might come handy when working with the vCenter Service Appliance 6.7: Enable SSH File Transfer with SCP/SFTP Public Key Authentication Disable …Read more »...
• Free ESXi 6.7 - How to Download and get License Keys
  vSphere 6.7 has been released and as known from previous versions, VMware provides a free version of their Hypervisor ESXi for everyone again. The license key can be created for free at VMware's website. It has no expiration date. The …Read more »...
• VMware ESXi 6.7 - IO Devices not certified for upgrade
  Beside Server Hardware, also double check if your IO Devices (eg. NIC, HBA,..) are supported when updating ESXi hosts from VMware vSphere 6.5 to 6.7. The following devices were supported in vSphere 6.5 but are according to VMware's HCL not (yet) …Read more »...
• VMware ESXi 6.7 - Hardware not yet certified for upgrade
  Double check your vendor support when updating ESXi hosts from to vSphere 6.7. Some systems have not been certified by their vendor yet. The following servers were supported in vSphere 6.5 but are according to VMware's HCL not yet supported in …Read more »...
• VMware vSphere 6.7 Configuration Maximums Changes
  VMware vSphere 6.7 offers increased scalability. You can see a comparison against all previous versions at my ESX and vCenter Configuration Maximums page. Changes in VMware vSphere 6.7 are: Virtual Machine Maximums vSphere 6.7 vSphere 6.5 vSphere 6.0  NVDIMM controllers 1 …Read more »...

vInfrastructure Blog

• VMworld 2018 – Where and when
  As happened in the past, VMworld 2018 will be in the same locations, both for the US and the European editions: again Las Vegas and Barcelona. Those will be the dates for both events: VMworld 2018 US: will be in Las Vegas from August 26 to August 30 VMworld 2018 EU: will be in Barcelona from Novembe...
• Why upgrade to VMware vSphere 6.7 (or why not)
  This is an article realized for StarWind blog and focused on the pro and cons of an upgrade to vSphere 6.7. See also the original post. Now that VMware vSphere 6.7 has been announced and it’s also available in General Availability (GA), some people may ask if it makes sense upgrade to this version (...
• Nutanix .NEXT 2018
  The first Nutanix .NEXT event was in the late 2015 and there were several changes in the company, in the products and in the event content. Now there well be a new Nutanix .NEXT event, from May 8 to 10 at New Orleans. Still 3 days (or two full) as usual, but a lot of difference, if you are looking a...
• Windows Server 2016 reboot after hot-adding CPU in vSphere 6.5
  Seeams that there is an issue in CPU hot-add on Windows Server 2016 running in VMware vSphere 6.5, but it’s something hard to reproduce this issues on a different systems. Because on most systems it works correctly, but, at least in a case, the CPU hot add does not work as expected. On the  ...
• VMware vSphere 6.5 Update 2
  VMware has just released the new vSphere 6.7 only a few weeks ago, but now it’s the turn to update the previous version: vSphere 6.5 Update 2 is now available, with some interesting news. New builds will be 8307201 for vCenter and 8294253 for ESXi. The official vSphere documentation is already...

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