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The vCenter Server Appliance is all the rage right now. No, it’s not a fad, in fact if you want to make sure you can take advantage of all the latest cool features, you should make the jump. The days of Windows and MS SQL are over, at least as far as vSphere management is…
Let’s get one thing straight: the authors of this article are HUGE fans of the VMware Hands-On-Labs (HOL).
This document will help separate the 10Gb interfaces from the 1Gb interfaces onto different bridges. Sometimes this is requested to isolate VM traffic to just the 1Gb interfaces leaving just the Hypervisor and CVM traffic to the 10Gb network. Also, we will add each Hypervisor host and Controller Virtual Machine to VLAN 200. (Note, and…
Let’s face it, most companies don’t have Labs for you to learn new software and operating systems, let alone test upgrades and changes to your existing environments.
Have you ever wanted an easy way to clone complex, multi-VM application environments for upgrade testing, code progression, or training?
This is a quick guide to show you how to connect your vRA 7+ environment with your NSX 6.2+ environment. It assumes you already have vRA and NSX fully installed, and now you just need to connect the two together so that you can start using the Network & Security constructs in your vRA blueprints.
In Part 2 of this series, we automated 3 different NSX Micro-Segmentation scenarios with vRealize Automation 7 (vRA). In this article, I’ll show you how to do some basic Distributed Firewall troubleshooting, so you can figure out exactly which firewall rules your vRA blueprints will need.
In Part 1 of this series, we did a conceptual walk-through of 3 basic NSX + vRA7 Micro-Segmentation approaches. We compared the pro’s and con’s of each approach, and talked about the situations in which you would be most likely to employ each one. In this article, we’ll actually be doing the hands-on setup for…
I’ve been working with vRealize Automation (vRA) for a few years now, and I’ve seen folks do some pretty impressive things with it.
Recently I did a video illustrating virtual disk synchronization capabilities with Tintri SyncVM. Our latest 4.0 Tintri OS takes SyncVM a step further by allowing file level restores from snapshots. Currently this only works on VMware, but it is compatable with both Linux and Windows. Let’s start by navigating to my linux demo machine…