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VMware Solutions – End of Support in 2022

GrahamDecember 7, 2021December 7, 2021

This is a quick post to highlight some of VMware's most used software which will no longer be supported in 2022. Software releases drop out of support all the time and it's easily missed to be sure to check them frequently. A quick search of this page will identify some...

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VMware vSphere 7 Update 3 – What’s new?

GrahamSeptember 28, 2021September 30, 2021

It's only been around 6 months since vSphere 7 Update 2 was announced. Today VMware has announced new functionality in update 3. If you're looking for all the best bits of vSphere 7 Update 2, check my in-depth post here. You'll also notice that I publish these posts out really...

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vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager – Getting Started

GrahamMarch 21, 2021March 22, 2021

vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager is VMware's solution to deploy, configure and upgrade the vRealize solution stack: vRealize Operations vRealize Automation vRealize Business for Cloud vRealize Log Insight Typically you would install each of the vRealize solutions separately, management of this and patching/upgrading is time-consuming so a dedicated solution to manage...

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Sending vROps Alerts to Slack

GrahamJuly 10, 2020

If you are a VMware vRealize Operations (vROps) customer and a slack user, then you'll probably be pleased to see native Slack integration with vROps. It's been possible to post alerts to Slack via REST Notifications, but it is also nice to see Slack natively supported within vROps version 8.1....

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Installing VMware vCenter Server (VCSA) 7.0 !

GrahamApril 2, 2020April 27, 2020

This post is part of my vSphere 7.0 installation guides. As with ESXi 7.0, there is virtually no difference between installing VCSA 6.7 and 7.0. However, since I was going through it anyway in my lab, I thought I'd take the screenshots and put them into a quick post. (Afterall,...

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vRealize Operations Manager (vROps) 8.1 – A True Multi-Cloud Management Platform

GrahamMarch 10, 2020March 9, 2020

vRealize Operations Manager (commonly known as vROps) has become a true multi-cloud management tool over the last year or so. With cloud solutions rapidly changing, it's important for VMware to keep up with this pace and ensure their cloud management solutions are able to manage and monitor the most popular...

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ESXi 7 on Raspberry Pi & ARM

GrahamDecember 25, 2019December 27, 2019

For what feels like a couple of years, VMware has been teasing us with the idea that a later version of ESXi will run on ARM processors. At VMworld 2019 in Europe, ARM had their own stand which was managed by VMware employees (including Alexander Frankichen) from the ARM team....

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How to provide feedback directly to VMware 1-on-1

GrahamDecember 11, 2019December 15, 2019

Being able to provide feedback to hardware and software vendors is challenging. Most companies will allow you to send in your suggestions or product feedback via an online form or ticket which can work out okay. However, there is nothing better than being able to talk to someone at the...

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Using vRealize Operations to identify Zombie VMs

GrahamNovember 18, 2019December 10, 2019

This month the vExpert Cloud Management team challenged its members to utilise VMware Cloud Management tools to locate Zombie VMs. If we were able to do this, we were awarded a free T-Shirt and some trees planted in our name in the Amazon Rainforest. Quite a cool idea! Of course,...

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Migrating AWS EC2 Instances to VMware (Free software)

GrahamSeptember 27, 2019December 11, 2019

Earlier this week I posted about how to Migrate VMware Virtual Machines into AWS EC2 instances. I had a lot of interest from this post (1000's hits in the first 24 hours) and several people have asked me about migrating AWS EC2 Instances back to VMware Virtual Machines. So here...

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