20 Years VMware – Past to Present
This blog started 10 years ago because a few friends were enthusiastic about virtualization and specifically VMware. Not unlike the way VMware started 20 years ago. Over those years, VMware’s products have grown and matured, and VMware has grown with them. Today, virtualizing your servers…
Production-ready Kubernetes with Pivotal Container Service (PKS)
Traditionally, containers have been difficult to work with. But during the last years, containers have become increasingly common and crucial in cloud computing. And when you say ‘Containers’, Kubernetes (or K8s) is never far away. Kubernetes is a system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized…
Using PowervRNI to Quickly Add Applications
This is the second post in a series on how to use PowervRNI to manage Applications within your vRealize Network Insight environment. If you’d like to learn about managing Data Sources with PowervRNI, check here. Applications Introduced in vRealize Network Insight 3.2 in the begin…
How to provide NSX firewall logging to individual tenants
Settings up firewall logging for VMware NSX isn’t to complicated, especially when using vRealize Log Insight. Seeing as Log Insight has a management pack available for NSX, which you can download directly from the market place. Most organisations are using some form of firewall logging. And…
Using PowervRNI to Quickly Add Data Sources
This is the first post in a series on how to use PowervRNI to manage your vRealize Network Insight environment. Starting with Data Sources. Data Sources Brief background; data sources in vRNI are endpoints from which vRNI retrieves information from. Examples are: vCenter, NSX, Switches,…
LAMP Stacks made easy with VMware and Puppet
In preparation for a joint VMware & Puppet event I’m running on February 8th, I wanted to know more about Puppet and the integration available with VMware vRealize Automation. To build these new skills I started of with the free learning tutorials from Puppet and…
NSX for vSphere 6.4 is here (and it’s massive!)
Just as the title says, NSX-v 6.4 has just dropped. I my opinion, they should’ve called it NSX-v 7.0 though, considering the amount of new and cool stuff that is in there. I’ll go through the most prolific new and shiny features below. Distributed Firewall…
How to harden the Veeam Backup Repository
The Veeam Backup Repository is a storage location used to store backup files, VM copies, configuration backups (BCO) and auxiliary replica files. There are several flavours of Veeam backup repositories, namely: Windows, Linux or Specific DeDuplication devices like the ExaGrid, EMC DataDomain or HPE StoreOnce….
Introducing PowervRNI
I am excited to introduce PowervRNI to the world! In the 3.6 release of vRealize Network Insight (vRNI) in November, there was a public API added. Through this API, you can offload certain tedious tasks like creating applications and managing data sources. I was using…
Top Posts & Stats of 2017
2017 is almost done and 2018 is upon us. Looking back at this blog and its posts in 2017, I’d like to take this opportunity to thank you for going on the virtualisation journey with us! We’ve had another awesome year, filled with good content…
Restoring a NSX Edge Gateway
NSX Manager has a backup and restore functionality. That process creates a backup of the entire NSX fabric and puts that backup on a remote (s)FTP server. All configuration is available within that backup, the Edge configuration is not separate. Being a good IT-citizen, of…
vRealize Lifecycle Manager puts a SysAdmin out of work.
Luckily that’s not true but vRealize Lifecycle Manager will enable SysAdmins to spend their time on service creation instead of installation and configuration of the platform. Now, quickly after the initial release on September 20th, VMware already released a new version of vRealize Lifecycle Manager….
NetFlow on Physical switches with vRealize Network Insight
With the release of vRealize Network Insight 3.6, the flow analyser inside vRNI now supports external sources for NetFlow. This means you can perform micro segmentation planning on physical servers (before you migrate them to virtual) and create deep insight into what network traffic is…
Keeping your applications Healthy and Secure
In the age of Digital Transformation, applications and the data they generate are the most important assets of your company. The application landscape is diverse. Traditional, client-server apps probably mixed with modern, containers and cloud native apps. And IT has to manage them all, keeping…
Host Preparation Troubleshooting Enhancements with NSX 6.3.5
VMware NSX 6.3.5 was released last week. This is a maintenance release and addresses 32 issues in previous versions. You can find the release notes here. One thing caught my eye which is a very welcome addition to 6.3.5; Host prep now has troubleshooting enhancements,…