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Deploying the VCSA 6.0 Appliance directly into vCenter

Hey… Is that even possible? It seems that it is not – at least that is what I heard this week over Twitter. The documentation also says the same thing. When trying to put in a vCenter as the target …

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Security in VMware Virtual Appliances

Today I got a reminder of a post I have been meaning to write about security best practices and VMware Virtual Appliances. A question was raised on the VMTN community VCSA - what is the default …

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Migration Path for the VCSA from vPostgres to.. ??

Wait… there is no way to do that – is there? Today I would like to address a point that is perhaps pretty obvious but not really well known, and that is the lack of a migration path out of the vCenter …

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Things I Don’t Like About the vCenter Virtual Appliance

VMware are looking to move everything to a virtual appliance model. That is pretty obvious. And of course the most central component is your vCenter, I wrote a post a while back about Should You Patch …

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Should You Patch the vCenter Server Virtual Appliance?

With vCenter 5 came the release of the the vCenter Server Virtual Appliance. This move was applauded by many due to the fact that VMware made the first step in the direction of removing their …

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Viewing a WebEx on the Road

Today I wanted to join in on Simon Seagrave’s EMC Live Webcast: Install & Run the EMC Celerra Virtual Storage Appliance But I was not able to view it from the comfort of my desk, I was on …

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Do You Really Need the vMA?

This post was triggered by a very informative conversation I had with William Lam this week. Thanks William! vMA - vSphere Management Assistant, is a virtual machine that includes prepackaged software …

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Is 100mb Enough for the Service Console?

It is accepted practice amongst most of the virtualization world that you can use a 100mb/s link for your Service Console port, because there is not much traffic that is flowing over that link. Well …

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Deep Security 7 - Trend Micro & VMsafe

Trend Micro have now joined Altor Networks and Reflex Systems with their new offering that utilizes VMware’s VMsafe technology. I expect we will be seeing more and more of the Security Companies …

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VMware Studio 2.0 - GA

Release Notes General Availability Release | 31 August 2009 | Build 1017 Last document update: 25 August 2009 New Features in VMware Studio 2.0 The following features were added between VMware Studio …

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