Configure vRealize Automation not to delete virtual machines
During the POC we did a demo of the default vRealize Automation lease/archive/delete-process which I discussed yesterday. After seeing this the customer is worried that virtual machines with or without an archive period configured get deleted during holiday periods. So their question is, ‘is it…
Speed up vRealize Automation life cycle updates
During the vRealize Automation life cycle of an item it passes various states. The life cycle of a virtual machine in vRealize Automation is made up of the so called Master Workflow. The Master Workflow is a collection of the following six top level workflow states: Request…
Setup vRealize Automation Cost profiles & currency
When setting up costing in vRealize Automation you can use cost profiles and storage cost profiles to provide cost information in the Catalog. First, you have to associate cost with compute resources which essentially is a pool of clusters available as an endpoint in your vRealize Automation environment. In vRealize…
MS SQL high availability support for vRealize Automation
With a vRealize Automation Distributed setup, we are able to create a highly available vRealize Automation environment with redundant vRA appliances, IaaS Servers and Orchestrators behind load balancers. But what about the MS SQL high availability for the Iaas Server(s)? Lately I had some discussion on…
Setup the vRealize Automation prerequisites for IaaS
When you’re setting up your vRealize Automation environment, you start of easy with the vRealize Automation appliance. After this you’re probably thinking it will be ‘a peace of cake‘, ‘a walk in the park‘ or any other metafor that’s harder to remember than the vRA…
vRealize Automation: How to …
Since I started at VMware Benelux in January 2015 the learning curve has been a steep one. In my previous life I had been working with the products in the vRealize Suite. I’ve done multiple designs and real life implementations including vRealize Operations but there was…
VMworld 2015: VMware announces VMware Identity Manager Advanced
In June, VMware introduced VMware Identity Manager, an Identity as a Service (IDaaS) offering that we began including in premium versions of AirWatch Enterprise Mobility Management. At day two of VMworld 2015, VMware announced VMware Identity Manager Advanced, a new standalone package of Identity Manager…
VMworld 2015: vCloud Air enhancements
Today at the start of VMworld 2015, VMware announced several enhancements to vCloud Air. These updates and others from VMware this week show how the company is looking to become a formidable contender in the cloud infrastructure market. Companies are depending on public clouds to…
VMworld 2015: VMware launches vSphere Integrated Containers
Two months ago VMware introduced Project Bonneville. Today at VMworld 2015, Kit Colbert revealed Bonneville’s core technology which is now powering vSphere Integrated Containers. VMware today announced technology previews for vSphere Integrated Containers and Photon Platform — two new products that companies can use to build…
VMworld 2015: VMware introduces EVO SDDC
VMware expanded its software-defined data center strategy with the introduction of its EVO SDDC software stack for managing storage, compute, networking and virtualization resources as a single system. EVO SDDC, previously known as EVO:RACK, can be used by OEMs to build integrated enterprise software-defined data…
VMworld 2015: Keynote LiveBlog.
In a few minutes we will bring you a live report from the keynote session of VMworld 2015 in San Francisco.
VMware releases vRealize Production Test
Yesterday VMware released the vRealize Production Test which is an add-on tool to the vRealize Suite that you can use to monitor the production health of your vRealize Suite deployment from the initial deployment to the operational phase. By using vRealize Production Test, you can run…
vCenter Server 6 Availability Guide
vCenter Server has become a mission critical part of most virtual infrastructures. It can be a single point of failure if it is not designed for availability. vCenter Server 6 has many changes relating to vCenter Server and its components and careful consideration has to…
How to: Build a custom image with vSphere ESXi Image Builder CLI
In February I’ve build myself a new home lab with some Shuttle DS81’s, as I described in detail. But due to the vSphere 6 release date and the upcoming ‘Barista-as-a-Service’-VMUG demo I used vSphere 5.5 Update 2. But now vSphere 6 is GA and the VMUG…
Cloud Native Applications powered by Photon
VMware just announced the introduction of two new Open Source projects, Project Lightwave and Project Photon, both of which are intended to improve scalability and integration between cloud apps and existing enterprise infrastructure. VMware recognizes that containers, microservices, and DevOps are changing how modern applications…