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Guides, fixes and news from my VMware lab. Covers vSphere, VCF, vSAN, NSX and Aria, plus Broadcom licensing changes and my yearly end-of-life rundowns.

2022

vRetreat Virtual #6 with Cohesity and Progress

Last month I was fortunate to be invited to the first virtual #vRetreat of the year. This time we had both Cohesity and Progress presenting their technologies to us which was…

vCommunity3 min
2021

Official VMware Visio Stencils & Icons for 2022

I have been writing documentation for some time but it has always bothered me that there has been no official Visio Stencils, Draw.io or other Icons for the documentation of…

vCommunity1 min

Getting started with the vROps REST API & PowerShell

A few years back I started using the vRealize Operations REST API. At the time I had a number of clients using the solution. I needed a way to automate adding new tenants to the…

Code3 min

VMware Solutions – End of Support in 2022

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…

Horizon2 min

Monitoring IIS Websites with vRealize Operations

VMware's vRealize Operations solution is a full cloud / on-prem management solution for your VMware infrastructure. One of the best features in vROps is the ability to extend way…

VMware vRealize (Aria)4 min

VMware vSphere 7 Update 3 – What’s new?

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…

vCommunity5 min

Tanzu A-Z at VMworld 2021

If your organisation is using VMware solutions, you'll have likely heard about VMware Tanzu, Kubernetes and Containers. However, if you're like me, you probably haven't had time…

vCommunity3 min

Annual vExpert 2021 Sticker Giveaway

Every year I give away free stickers to vExperts. We all benefit from being in the vExpert community, so this is my way of thanking everyone for their contributions. This year I…

vCommunity2 min

VM Backup Dashboard for vRealize Operations Manager

Do you ever wonder if your backup software is backing up all your virtual machines? Perhaps you missed a folder or a production VM has been placed in a folder excluded from…

VMware vRealize (Aria)4 min

How to install NSX-T Manager 3.x

Unlike traditional networking solutions, NSX-T runs on top of a hypervisor. In NSX-T's case, this can be a vSphere hypervisor (ESXi) or KVM. The main advantages of this approach…

NSX4 min