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Introducing VMware Log Intelligence

VMware Log Intelligence VMware recently announced the release of VMware Log Intelligence. This tool offers IT teams unified visibility across private, hybrid and native public clouds by adding structure to unstructured log data, providing intuitive dashboards and leveraging machine learning for faster troubleshooting   For those users using vRealize Log Insight version 4.6.x, is the […]

vRealize Operations Manager Tenant App for vCloud Director 2.0

vRealize Operations Manager Tenant App for vCD is a tenant facing application which provides a tenant administrator visibility to their vCloud Director environment. Service provider admin can enable access to the application to any tenant. It solves monitoring, troubleshooting and capacity planning use cases for a tenant. This is available only to service providers. The […]

Using the Upgrade Assessment Tool for vRealize Operations Manager 7.0

vRealize Operations Upgrade Assessment Tool can help you scan your content for these metrics and provide you recommended replacements in form of a pre-upgrade assessment report. To find out what user content may be impacted by the metric reduction, run the Upgrade Assessment Tool before upgrading to vRealize Operations Manager 7.0. Download the Upgrade Assessment Tool […]

Managing TLS protocol configuration for vSphere 6.0 Update 3

This post provides steps for modifying the supported TLS protocols using TLS reconfiguration utility and powercli script, and disabling TLSv1.0 & TLSv1.1 within the vSphere environment. The utility/script will allow for an end-to-end disablement of TLSv1.0/TLS v1.1 across a vSphere environment. However, the vCenter Server, Platform Services Controller, and ESXi hosts within the environment must […]

Troubleshooting when UMDS is unable to download patches

This post outlines the process of troubleshooting issues when Update Manager Download Services is unable to download patches. Symptoms VMware Update Manager Download Services is unable to download patches When trying to initiate a download using vmware-umds -d command you see errors similar to: ‘httpDownload’ 4440 ERROR] [httpDownload, 732] Error 12175 from WinHttpSendRequest for url […]

Install and Configure Update Manager 6.5 on Windows

VMware Update Manager provides centralised patch and version management for ESXi hosts, virtual machines, and virtual appliances. Update Manager can be used to upgrade and patch ESXi hosts, install and update third-party software on hosts, upgrade virtual machine hardware, VMware Tools, and virtual appliances. This guide will cover the installation of VMware Update Manager 6.5 […]

VMware Cloud Migration Portal (CMP) no longer available

For those who had the opportunity to use “Cloud Migration Portal” there are no good news. VMware informed is no longer supported and removed from VMWare Partner’s Portal Cloud Migration Portal used to manage and automate large scale migration projects to VMware vSphere and Cloud. CMP supported migration of workloads from physical to virtual, virtual […]

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