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vRealize Operations Manager (previously vCOps) 6.0 “Almost Here”

October 14, 2014 / Martijn / 0 Comments

vCenter Operations Manager (vCOps) has been given a new name: vRealize Operations Managers (vROps) and VMware has completely reworked the old vCOps. It has a 8X greater scalability and offers unified management across vSphere and non-vSphere (Hyper-V, AWS, Bare Metal) platforms.

vROps now comes in a single virtual appliance, instead of the known virtual appliance with the "Analytics" and "UI" VMs inside it. No more two different management panes as well. The changes so far are pretty impressive for a 5.8 to 6.0 release. Here they are:

New Scale-Out Architecture - Data and UI are shared so no separate "Analytics"

VMware Site Recovery Manager Updated to 5.8

October 13, 2014 / Martijn / 0 Comments

This one has gone a little under the radar, but VMware has updated its Site Recovery Manager (SRM) to version 5.8 and bringing a few remarkable updates by doing so:

SRM has been fully integrated into the vSphere Web Client (used to be fat-client only).
Scalability limits have been increased dramatically:
- Maximum of protected VMs is now 5,000.
- Maximum of concurrent recovery tasks is now 2,000.
You can now map entire subnets to the IP customisation plans, instead of individual IP addresses.
There is now an VMware Orchestrator Plugin for SRM to automate SRM actions through Orchestrator.
SRM can now

VMware NSX on a FlexPod (with dynamic routing)

October 8, 2014 / Martijn / 0 Comments

Cisco has made it clear that there will be no validated design for a FlexPod with VMware NSX running as the virtual network and there will be no trifecta vendor support for the entire platform. This does not mean you're completely barred from using it though. To be able to make use of the best of both worlds, I've been working to create a design that uses FlexPod as the rock solid foundation and offer the networking flexibility that VMware NSX offers. The goal is to not change the FlexPod design so that it will still be certified for support.… Read more

VMware vCenter 5.5 Update 2 released!

September 9, 2014 / Martijn / 0 Comments

VMware has released vCenter 5.5 Update 2 today. Most of the updates are basic product support updates, like support for Microsoft SQL Server 2014 and removing support for IBM DB2. There are a bunch of bug fixes in there as well. For the full list, check here.

One particular change was a bit buried in the release notes and was not mentioned in the blog post, which tries to say it's not a major change. However, for VMware administrators, this might be the most important change in Update 2 and the reason they will upgrade; In Update 2, you … Read more

VMware VXLAN Host Preparation: Add virtual NIC: Unknown error

March 23, 2014 / Martijn / 9 Comments

During the implemention of a private cloud solution using vSphere and vCloud Director, there was the need to reinstall the ESXi hosts with a custom ISO. At that point the vSphere platform was already deployed, vShield Manager and vCloud Director were running and integrated with each other, and the VXLAN preparations (transport VLAN added, vmknics were deployed and active and the segment networks config) we're already done. VXLAN Network deployment was working and the vShield Manager and vCloud Director were happy with the vSphere environment.

After the ESXi host reinstall, it got its Host Profile back and was added … Read more

VMware VCP Required Recertification

March 8, 2014 / Martijn / 1 Comment

Up until now the VCP program of VMware has been a "VCP for life" type of deal. You do the exam and get the VCP sticker without having to follow up, unlike other certification programs like the Cisco certifications.

VMware has just announced a change to their certification program which requires current VCP holders to recertify every two years. After the continuing improvements to the VMware certification program, like splitting up the technologies into general, cloud and mobile tracks, you now have to prove yourself worthy of the VCP title every two years.

This new policy gives you three options … Read more

VMware NSX: Configuring Load Balancing

March 1, 2014 / Martijn / 0 Comments

VMware NSX integrates networking into the virtual world. It also brings networking services to the in a distributed and much simpler fashion. One of those network services is load balancing. Using NSX, you can create virtual IP addresses which routes incoming network traffic to multiple real servers.

It works just like your regular hardware load balancer (F5, A10 Networks, etc), but in a distributed way and grouped by real servers on your computing hardware.

Making these network services virtual, means being able to deploy it very rapidly and easy. So easy, you can create a web load balancing cluster in … Read more

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