The holy grail of VMware certifications – VCDX. Who would not want to became VCDX? But not everyone can, because the knowledge and experience you need before trying to pass this ultimate VMware certification exam is just too demanding and only few hundreds people worldwide are actually VCDX certified. Before pretending for a VCDX, the […]
ESXi Maintenance Mode Via CLI How-to And Some More Commands
A short post to bookmark some CLI commands for putting a VMware ESXi host into a maintenance mode. In my lab, I’m running vCenter in a VM, and this VM runs out of a small local datastore. So I can’t simply vMotion this VM elsewhere to do a maintenance and patch using VMware Update Manager (VUM). When […]
VMware SSO Install – Single Sign On Server Installation Options
VMware SSO install, when done wrong or when architected the wrong way, can put your infrastructure into a fragile state where SSO can became the single point of failure (SPOF). Before introduction of SSO in vSphere 5.1, there was a vCenter considerations when it comes to resiliency and protection. With the introduction SSO it’s like an additional […]
VMware vSphere 5.1 Update 1 Released – What’s new?
Latest release of VMware vCloud and Datacenter suite has been released – VMware vSphere 5.1 U1. The number of changes and updates is quite phenomenal There are many new features introduced and not only as you would imagine, bug fixes. But we’ll have a look at the changes and those evolutions that are in, a bit […]
ESX Virtualization Has a Chrome App and Extension -:)
ESX Virtualization has an app! Not so long time ago I’ve started to use the mobile version of the WP theme which provides better user experience on iPads, and smartphones, today I tried to create my first Web App for Chrome, and also Chrome extension. There is quite a few guides around the internet on […]
vOpenData – open community virtualization database project
vOpenData is a community driven project where user submit virtual infrastructure configurations, (collected via script) where only anonymous data are collected. Those data then feed up a database which is accessible in a form of dashboard where you can see most common configurations. Ben Thomas and William Lam had a dream which came true very quickly. Actually it was […]
vSphere 5.1 Hardening Guide Released
New vSphere hardening guide has been released. The news came by from vSphere Security Blog here. The vSphere Hardening guide present itself as an excel spreadsheet, where the different components of vSphere 5.1 are laid on separate worksheet. You have the possibility to consult different ways to restrict (harden) access to different components of vSphere and protect your installation […]
vCenter Operations Manager 5.7 – what’s new?
vCenter Operations Manager 5.7 has been released few days ago. vCOPS 5.7 provides performance, capacity and configuration management for VMware vSphere. It’s a standalone product, which is also distributed as bundle with VMware vSphere. VMware vCenter Operations Manager 5.7 is preconfigured as a virtual appliance (VM) and it’s available in three editions: Standard Advanced Enterprise What’s […]
VCAP-CIA – vCloud VCAP exam available
For those of you who start thinking about VCAP-CIA exam, which is an exam on vCloud Director – at the Datacenter Advanced Professional level. This exam is now available through VMware Education. When passing this exam, you’ll automatically become VCP-Cloud certified. VCAP-CIA stands for VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Cloud Infrastructure administration. There is a requirements […]
How to find inactive computer accounts in Active Directory
From time to time you might need to clean up the Active Directory from computer accounts which are no longer active. Computers that has been reinstalled, replaced with new ones, old VMs. In many of those case you’ll might just end up with active directory full of computer objects that are obsolete. In fact those […]
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