Near Real-Time Host and Virtual Machine Metrics with PowerCLI
Have you ever wanted to quickly return some key CPU, Memory, Disk and Network metrics across hosts in a matter of seconds? My customer and friend Vamshi Meda (@medavamshi) shared a very useful PowerCLI...
View Article2014 Orlando VMUG User Conference
This week the inaugural Orlando VMUG Conference was held at the Hilton Orlando Convention Center with over 300 attendees. This was an amazing event for the area’s VMware Community with a ton of...
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Morning Musing: VMware Recertification
DisclamerAny views or opinions expressed herein are strictly my own. Content published here is not read, reviewed, or approved in advance by VMware and does not necessarily represent or reflect the...
View ArticleUpdated VMware vSphere 5.5 Education Courses
Following on the heels of VMware vSphere 5.5 Update 1 release last week, VMware Education has released updated courses for 5.5 as well as a new amazing self-paced delivery option for the VMware...
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“VCSAs, Assemble!”
I have had the pleasure to work with many expansive and unique environments in my career. One of my favorite and the most unique has defined automated PODs of availability throughout multiple data...
View Article2014 South Florida VMUG User Conference
Today, I was honored to present two technical sessions at the South Florida VMUG Conference in Palm Beach, Florida. This was an amazing event for the area’s VMware Community (~400 attendees!) with a...
View ArticlevCloud Automation Center 5.2 End of General Support Extended
As you may be aware, VMware vCloud Automation Center 5.2 was released on 2013-09-19 and was quickly followed by the 6.0 release on 2013-12-10. After which, the the End of General Support for 5.2 was...
View ArticlevSphere Auto Deploy Reverse Web Proxy Caching
Lately, I’ve been working with a customer on a vSphere 5.1 and 5.5 Auto Deploy environment. The environment is rather large, and each pod of compute/storage requires localized access to the ESXi VIBs...
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vSphere 5.x Datastore Cluster “Allocated Space” in the C# Client
I ran across a wonky, albeit cosmetic, storage reporting error for Datastore Clusters on vSphere 5.x when using the vSphere Client (C#). When reviewing a Datastore Cluster in the “Summary” tab under...
View ArticlevCAC 6 Authentication Workaround in a Complex Multi-domain Active Directory...
In vCloud Automation Center 6.0 (“vCAC”) there was an authentication issue for some implementations. Users that belonged to “a large number of groups” or belonged to groups with “large group names”...
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