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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 …

  • Appliances
  • Administration
  • VMware
  • vCenter
8 min read

vSphere 6.0 Release Notes - Part 2

This is the second half of my thoughts on the vSphere 6.0 release notes. Part 1 can be found here Disclaimer: These are my own thought and ramblings. I think they should be questions you should be …

  • vSphere
  • VMware
  • vCenter
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vSphere 6.0 is here. Read the Release Notes!!

I make the time whenever a product is released to go over the release notes – because there are always tidbits of information there that you should know about and usually it will save you time in the …

  • vSphere
  • VMware
  • vCenter
  • 6
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vCenter is Still a Single Point of Failure - An Update

My previous post vCenter is Still a Single Point of Failure caused a decent amount of discussion on Twitter and comments on the blog. I am actually glad about that because it raised a point that I …

  • Design
  • Management
  • Architecture
  • Administration
6 min read

vCenter is Still a Single Point of Failure

A few days ago VMware (Mike Brown, Anil Kapur and Justin King are the authors) announced the updated document for the vCenter Server 5.5 Availability guide. I would like to make clear a few things …

  • Design
  • Management
  • Architecture
  • Administration
2 min read

UCS Manager Plugin 0.9.2 (beta) for VMware vCenter

From the official blurb.. Cisco UCS vCenter Plug-in is an extension for the vSphere Web Client v5.1 or higher. It enables virtualization administrators to view, manage and monitor various aspects of …

  • Administration
  • VMware
  • vCenter
  • UCS
9 min read

Read the vSphere 5.5 Release Notes!!

My previous post on the 5.1 Release notes was quite popular as well as the 5.1.0a post as well… So as always, the first things I do when a new version is released is: Download the bits - of …

  • vSphere
  • 5.5
  • Administration
  • VMware
3 min read

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 …

  • Security
  • Appliances
  • VMware
  • vCenter
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vCenter Log Insight Now Available

Hello World…. vCenter Log Insight (Release Notes) - The first public release of the new Log Management and Analytics product. VMware vCenter Log Insight is the new solution of VMware for log …

  • Management
  • Operations
  • VMware
  • vCenter
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Upgrading to VMware's Latest Release of …

Jason Boche posted a great article vSphere 5.1 Update 1 Update Sequence and there he pointed to an excellent KB article released by VMware - Update sequence for vSphere 5.1 Update 1 and its compatible …

  • vCloud
  • Management
  • VMware
  • vCenter