VMware recently announced the General Availability of VMware Skyline Collector 3.3 and VMware Skyline Advisor 6.7. The updates bring new features and enhancements that further improve the visibility, proactive support, and troubleshooting capabilities of VMware environments. VMware Skyline is a proactive support technology that provides predictive analytics, actionable intelligence, and best practices to help customers […]
GitHub repositories for VMware Admins
Github is a treasure trove for developers and administrators who work with VMware. It offers a wide variety of resources, including libraries, tools, and scripts that can help you automate tasks, manage virtual environments, and more. Here are some of the best Github repositories for VMware developers and administrators: vSphere Automation SDKs – This repository […]
VMware Horizon 8: Ready for it?
VMware Horizon 8 is a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution that allows customers to easily deploy and manage virtual desktops and applications. Horizon 8 includes several new features and capabilities that can provide customers with significant improvements in performance, security, and manageability for their VDI environment. One of the key new features in Horizon 8 […]
Upgrade vRealize Operations to version 8.10.1
As per VMware Advisory VMSA-2022-0034, there are multiple vRealize Operations (vROps) vulnerabilities reported to VMware.For vulnerable VMware products, patches and updates are readily available. The new release 10.8.1 resolves a few important security and functionality issues identified in the product and an added features: Resolves CVE-2022-31707 & CVE-2022-31708. A malicious actor with admin privileges in […]
vSphere8 – vcenter server upgrade 6.7 to 8.0
In this post we will cover upgrading a vCenter Server from version 6.7 to version 8 in our labs. To get all details about upgrading vCenter Server check the documentation here The first thing to do is check my running version of vCenter Server 6.7 can be upgraded to version 8 using Product Interoperability Matrix […]
Upgrading to ESXi 8 using the command line ESXCLI
Exciting times again ? with the vSphere 8 release published for download in October 2022. Scan the QR code below and download the ISO file or offline bundle for your selected upgrade method. This link will take you to the download page As always, we recommend checking the documentation for details on performing your upgrade […]
Create a vCenter Content Library using OCI Object Storage
William Lam’s blog inspired this article, the idea is to walk you through setting up a vSphere Content library, adding items to the library, and removing a library item when it’s no longer required using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Object Storage. Before jumping into the steps let’s cover What is a Content Library and some […]
NSX-T 3.2 Add NSX Advanced Load Balancer Error Verification failed
Starting with NSX version 3.2 AVI load balancer integrates with NSX allowing users to deploy and configure AVI using NSX-T UI or API. As seen in NSX-T 3.2 release notes AVI is called NSX Advanced Load Balancer and is integrated into NSX-T, the NSX-T Native Load Balancer is going away. Excerpt of load balancer release […]
Learning resources to master Oracle Cloud VMware Solution
Hello everyone!! Several months ago, Guillermo wrote about the “Oracle VMware Cloud Solution” for the first time. From that date to today, more information is available, so I made a compilation of the links that I consider more helpful. I leave the message box open to suggestions. Thank you very much. I hope you find […]
Stretch VSAN cluster error in VCF 4.3
Let’s talk about VCF a little bit. A recent VCF implementation conversation inspired this post. You received your hardware to deploy your VCF Management Domain or Workload Domain. Exciting times after a long wait! While you are preparing the host by installing the devices you need and the supported firmware is possible that your physical […]