Yesterday, I arrived to a milestone of my professional career. Last year, when I was started this blog, my aim was to give back to the community, help those who may need. VMware honored this with the vExpert award. I know, it's not a certificate, there is no exact measure to determine someone's knowledge. Even … Continue reading vExpert Announcement
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Ansible for VMware – How to start on Centos 8
"Infrastructure as code (IaC) is the process of managing and provisioning computer data centers through machine-readable definition files, rather than physical hardware configuration or interactive configuration tools.[1] The IT infrastructure managed by this process comprises both physical equipment, such as bare-metal servers, as well as virtual machines, and associated configuration resources. The definitions may be in a version control system. It can use either … Continue reading Ansible for VMware – How to start on Centos 8
Optimize remote logging in vCenter v6.7
I'm sure many of the companies are using Splunk as centralized log server, and are aware of the licensing method of it. As a Splunk customer you will pay for the amount of logs received by your Splunk environment which could be painful for many large companies, and still, Splunk is a very popular product. … Continue reading Optimize remote logging in vCenter v6.7
Scratch Partition and Loghost directory setup when booting from SD Card
Even though it's not new, still came across wrong setup of scratch partition, which could cause boot media issues. If you had a statefully deployed ESXi host, it could boot from any sources like standard HDD or SSD or even Flash Drive (Pendrive) or SD Card. In case of HDD/SSD usage this setup is not … Continue reading Scratch Partition and Loghost directory setup when booting from SD Card
VMware Learning Zone
VMware announced at VMworld that they extended the free access to the premium digital content through VMware Learning Zone. As you may be aware, VMware made its premium digital content database accessible for 6 months to everyone without charges due the pandemic issue (COVID19). Now it has been extended for another 1 year. Content has … Continue reading VMware Learning Zone
VMworld 2020
Hi Folks, I'am attending and have premier pass for VMworld 2020, which is completely online this year due the pandemic issue. I'm interested in and focused to vSphere, vRealize products, Kubernetes, Multi Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, AWS, NSX, Security and other infrastructure related technologies, and i try to share as many information as i can. Stay … Continue reading VMworld 2020
Using vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager Deployment Guide – Summary
Within this series i've deployed a vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager from zero, included the Identity Manager (IDM or Workspace ONE Access) and then deployed a vRealize Log Insight (vRLI) cluster with a log forwarder. I went through on the deployment, the configuration in details. The parts of the series: Using vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager – … Continue reading Using vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager Deployment Guide – Summary
Using vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager – Part Seven.
For now, the environment looks like as planned. We have a load balancer (VIP), a 3 node cluster for the end user operations and one log forwarder. Its time to configure the forwarder and the main cluster. 1, First, lets enable the IDM authentication. This part is same for both forwarder and cluster members, therefore … Continue reading Using vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager – Part Seven.
Using vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager – Part Six.
Last time I went through the deployment of the main Log Insight cluster, now we have to add a forwarder. Actually I didn't do any configuration yet in the cluster, because many steps can be done together for the cluster and the forwarder(s). The process is almost the same as it was last time, therefore … Continue reading Using vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager – Part Six.
Using vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager – Part Five.
Deploying Log Insight During the past four parts, we have done with the followings: Deployed vRealize Suite Lifecycle ManagerDeployed Identity ManagerConfigured both applications (Disks, Time, DNS etc...)Genetrate and update certificatesUpdated to the latest versionConfigured Users and their passwords, sometimes create a role to themExtended our environment with additional vCenter servers. Now, we have a fully … Continue reading Using vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager – Part Five.
