When you start to utilise VMware Skyline, one of the first areas that you will be drawn to is the 'Findings & Recommendations' page and rightly so.The idea behind VMware Skyline is to proactively provide fixes to findings in your environment to allow you to remediate them before they become [...]
Read MoreThis is part 3 of this little blog series on my adventure with getting data out of the VMware Skyline API and into PowerBI. In the first part of this series, we went through the process of gaining access to the VMware Skyline API and testing access. The second part [...]
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On a daily basis, throughout my previous roles, I would perform tasks and use tools that others may not use or may not think to do. This gives me the opportunity to share some of the knowledge I have or items that I have found to be useful, and hopefully help others to learn and enhance their knowledge.
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Put quite simply, I’ve been in IT for a long time, working initially for small businesses, moving onto datacenter and server support for a company with 50,000 users worldwide before moving across to VMware in 2019 as a Technical Account Manager.
Read MoreSo, one of the major announcements from VMworld 2020 was around Project Monterey. Kit Colbert has done a great blog post on Project Monterey available here: https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2020/09/announcing-project-monterey-redefining-hybrid-cloud-architecture.html Project Monterey is the next development of the vSphere environment and requires the use of SmartNICs. In a current deployment, all of the components such as vSAN Data, NSX services and Host Management, […]
So, the news broke a little while ago that VMware has announced its intention to acquire SaltStack. But what is SaltStack and what do they do? Salt was an open source automation engine and originated from the need for high-speed data collection and task execution for data center systems administrators managing massive infrastructure scale and resulting complexity. Originally known […]
As I sit down to enjoy another full day of Zoom meetings, I started to think back over the past few months and how things have changed due to the Coronavirus Pandemic. The stories and memories mentioned in this post are from my personal experiences during the pandemic and, although we’re not through this, I thought it would be good […]
After being asked a question around copying Roles and Privileges from one vCenter to another vCenter, I looked over many different PowerCLI scripts to perform the task with many the providing steps but never really appearing to take the process to the level that I wanted and for my customer. I considered creating my own script to get to the […]
As you may recall from previous posts and general best practice in VMware environments, it is a good idea to perform a regular backup of both your vCenter and your ESXi host configuration. Having these backups in place can certainly reduce the downtime in the event of an issue, and help to ease the recovery. Other blog posts have taken […]
Following on from my last blog post, I thought that it would be worthwhile taking the very good guide created by Kevin Soltow at VMware Blog (https://www.vmwareblog.org/backup-restore-vmware-vcsa-6-7/) and update this for vSphere 7. Many people may not be aware that image based backups of vCenter servers utilising products such as Veeam are deprecated in vSphere 6.7 Update 3 and are […]
When deploying out a vCenter appliance (VCSA), you have to choose the size of the environment that you will be managing. Some people truly understand their current size and their growth aspirations and can therefore make an informed choice of what size to choose. Others are restricted by resource availability at the time of deployment or their environments grow faster […]
The vExpert 2020 announcements have just been released and I am pleased to say that I have been awarded the vExpert title for another year. I’d like to thank the team for awarding me this once again and would like to congratulate returning and first time vExperts. This is an amazing community that is helping so many IT professionals with […]
Yesterday (21st January 2020), saw an announcement from VMware and Nyansa (pronounced “knee-ans-sah”) sharing the intent of VMware to acquire Nyansa. Nyansa are a relatively young company creating innovative AI-based IT infrastructure analytics software. VMware appear to be looking to align this acquisition to their SD-WAN portfolio (Velocloud) to help drive the development of truly self-healing networks. It’s often interesting […]
Things have certainly been changing over the last couple of years at Veeam, whilst they work on their Act II and transform themselves truly from just a backup vendor to being an all encompassing Cloud Data Management solution. On 9th January 2020, it was announced that Insight Partners would acquire Veeam for approximately $5 Billion US Dollars. You may have […]