PowerShell Friday: Starting VMs
With PowerCLI you can manage and automate your VMware infrastructure from the command line. After you connect to vCenter you can do all kinds of nifty stuff. For example it is very easy to start virtual machines. You can use the complete name of the VM,…
ThinApp 5.2 released with Windows 10 support
November 19th VMware released ThinApp 5.2. One of the most important changes is that it now supports Windows 10. These blocking issues are resolved in ThinApp 5.2 Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 crashes at launch on 32-bit Windows 10 machines. Runtime error is displayed at the launch…
PowerShell Friday: Connecting to vCenter
For our first cmdlet on PowerShell Friday we are going to connect to vCenter. Before we can do anything useful on an ESXi host or vCenter we need to connect to the server. Connecting to vCenter or an ESXi host is done with the command:…
vRealize Log Insight quick interface Walkthrough
In the last post I described why log monitoring is important and what you can use to monitor your logfiles and how you can deploy vRealize Log Insight. In this post I will walk you through the interface. It will be a short post, since the…
VMware Fling – Horizon Service Installer for NSX
Services and Service Groups for Horizon View does not ship with NSX 6.2 today. Administrators must manually add the Horizon-related services (source, destination, protocol, port information) into NSX. This is a time consuming process and lends itself to errors. Since last week you don’t have…
PowerShell Friday: Getting Started with PowerShell and PowerCLI
PowerShell was release on November 14, 2006 and is now (or should be?) one of the major components in an admins life. If you’re just getting started on Windows or are new to the whole scripting and automation scene, this one is especially for you. I…
Getting started with vRealize Log Insight
VMware has a lot of tools these days. From the tools for virtualization all kinds of workloads to managing all that in an automated manner. In that last category VMware also has a tool called vRealize Log Insight. vRealize Log Insight, together with vRealize Operations gives…
No network connection after cloning Linux VM
While upgrading our VMGuru environment I ran into an issue with the network connectivity of a cloned Linux VM. Erik wrote about it earlier when he was restoring a VCSA from backup. I had a similar issue after cloning the VM. On of the first things I did was…
VMworld parties, fun or business?
When you visit or visited VMworld before, do you or did you ever get these comments? Did you have a nice holiday? Did you go for the parties? VMworld is not work If so, forward this article to those people to educate them what is really going…
VMworld TV Daily wrap-up Tuesday
As always Jeremy van Doorn and Eric Sloof did a wrap-up of all the action at VMworld. If you’re unable to join VMworld, or want to know what you missed this is a good way to catch up and make your planning for tomorrow. VMworld…
vRealize Automation 7 – Converged Blueprints
Today VMware announced the long awaited new version of their cloud management product vRealize Automation 7 (vRA7). This new release, previously known under codename Bellatrix, is a major overhaul and includes many new features and enhancements. Converged blueprints A long awaited new feature is the…
VMware Releases Socialcast Integration Store
VMware releases a new feature for Socialcast: the Socialcast Integration Store. With the applications and services in the Socialcast Integration Store, you can add information from other programs to the Socialcast event stream. This way events can be commented on and referenced in other events….
Important VMworld data
VMworld is only a couple of months away. From August 30 till September 3rd VMworld US will be held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California. Last year was earth shattering, really. Hopefully this year the only earth shattering will be because of announcements…
VMware User Environment Manager released
In the past VMware bought a product that could manage your user environment. When I say manage I mean it synchronized a Windows profile to a central location and after that only loaded the files and registry settings needed at that time. When an application…
Free tool: VMware Software Manager
While browsing the VMware site I noticed a free download that I have never seen before. On March 12, 2015 VMware released VMware Software Manager. VMware Software Manager – Download Service is a tool for managing downloads of VMware suite products. The tool allows you…