Introduction Recently we were in a situation in which we upgraded one of our Workspace ONE Access (formerly known as VMware Identity Manager) environments to the at that moment newest version 21.08 (Release notes here). All in all the upgrade Read more
The way in which you can customize notifications in vROPS has significantly improved in version 8.6. You now have the ability to use payload templates that can include all sorts of vROPS properties. This way you can make your alerts much more meaningful.
Introduction In the previous post here we have discussed the installation for the first NSX-T Manager and its prerequisites. In the next series of the blogpost we will discuss deploying the second and third NSX-T Manager appliance and how to Read more
Introduction In this blogpost I want to explain how to use an open source load balancer called HAProxy in conjunction with VMware Cloud Director (VCD) version 10.3.x and below. Like many of you might know, VCD is mostly deployed in Read more
Introduction Today we are working on NSX! Not NSX-V (the older NSX for vSphere environments) but the “new” NSX-T, which since version 4.0 is just called NSX. Lately I have been working a lot with this and have made some Read more
Today I want to talk about an issue we’ve encountered within our VMware Cloud Director (VCD) environment before. I figured it might be usefull for everybody that is looking at this problem in their environment. The situtation is as follows: Read more
Today we have another UsageMeter issue I would like to discuss with everybody. I’ve been using UsageMeter since the old days so I’ve seen pretty much everything there is. But this time I was surprised to learn something new on Read more
Introduction Last week VMware has release VMware Cloud Director (VCD) 10.3.3. After a small wait from the previous 10.3.2a version but this version was the one I was lingering for! This release would have fixed a lot of the operational Read more
The nested ESXi appliances that William Lam provides to the community are great resources for testing. But what about interoperability? Can you run a nested ESXi 7 VM on a ESXi 6.7 server? Unfortunately the answer is; it depends.
Sometimes you come across a couple of older environments that haven’t received the amount of love you should give them. I came across one NSX-V environment that had an expired certificate on the NSX Manager. Renewing a NSX Manager certificate Read more