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Virtual-Stones Blog: January 2016
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26 January, 2016. VMware announcements for 2016. Last year in January VMware launched vSphere 6, this year February is going to be the month for VMware's announcements for 2016. This time around VMware has it's announcements divided in to two different tracks, each track is available in three different time zones. Track 1 is going to be all about EUC (End User Computing) and mobility, while track 2 is all about CMP (Cloud Management Platform) and HCI (Hyper-Converged Infrastructure). VSphere 5 introduced...
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Virtual-Stones Blog: May 2016
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19 May, 2016. All (good) things come to an end. Goodbye C# client. The retirement of the C# client or vSphere Client for Windows. It will not be available for the next version of vSphere. VMware states that the HTML5 Web Client will bring a great user experience. Currently you can already try the new HTML5 "look and feel" when you run ESXi 6.0 Update 2, this includes the Embedded Host Client which started of as a VMWare Lab Fling but made it into the Update 2 release. One other important thing to mention...
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Virtual-Stones Blog: Virtual Machine Disk Consolidation is needed !?
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19 July, 2013. Virtual Machine Disk Consolidation is needed! Prior to vSphere 5 there was a possibility to fix such a situation thru the CLI, now with vSphere 5 you get a extra option in the VM - Snapshot menu called "Consolidate" this feature should clean up any discrepancies between the Snapshot Manager interface and the actual situation at datastore level. So I had a look at one of their VM's that could not consolidate although the vCenter client was telling it did need it. So if you run into this iss...
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Virtual-Stones Blog: Adding an Tenant Administrator in Multi Tenant vRealize Automation environment gotcha!
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29 November, 2016. Adding an Tenant Administrator in Multi Tenant vRealize Automation environment gotcha! While configuring the vRealize Operations Manager (vROps) Managment Pack for vRealize Automation (vRA) I ran into a somewhat strange issue. The AD account needs to have to correct vRA roles in each of the tenants:. Software Architect role (vRA 7.0 and later). When I did this it returned an error message and failed to complete successfully:. Comvmware.vcac.authentication.service.sso...2016-11-29 08...
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Virtual-Stones Blog: NSX Load balancer advanced HTTP redirect
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03 June, 2016. NSX Load balancer advanced HTTP redirect. One of the advanced features of NSX for vSphere is Load Balancing. The NSX for vSphere load balancer enables network traffic to follow multiple paths to a specific destination. It distributes incoming service requests according the selected load balancing algorithm among multiple servers in such a way that the load distribution is transparent to users. The NSX load balancer provides load balancing up to Layer 7. During the creation of the applicati...
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Virtual-Stones Blog: September 2015
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17 September, 2015. VRealize Orchestrator (vRO) licensing pitfall. VRO is a powerful tool used when you want to automate repetitive tasks on your vSphere environment. It has various plugins which bring integration with other VMware products as well as integration with third party hardware and software solutions. About the use cases which could use the embedded database, VMware documentation is not really clear on this. Because the Install and Configure documentation on vRO version 6.0.1. So why am I writ...
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Virtual-Stones Blog: December 2015
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18 December, 2015. A Christmas present from VMware; vRealize Automation 7.0 is GA as of today! VMware announced a new version of vRA (vRealize Automation) during the last VMworld. And as of today vRealize Automation is available for download. For detailed information around compatibility, release notes as well as the download link please go to the vRealize Automation 7.0 Information Center. Below a highlight list of new features and enhancements:. Streamlined and Automated Wizard-based Installation.
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Virtual-Stones Blog: December 2014
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18 December, 2014. Microsoft Remote Desktop Services issue. This is clearly not a usual virtualisation related blog post. But every now and then I'm asked by either a customer or colleague to have a look at a non virtualisation issue they run into, mostly because the issue is occurring on a virtualised server. In this particular case for some unknown reason, overnight all RemoteApp programs serviced from their "Terminal Services" server suddenly stopped working. The next obvious thing was to recreate one...
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Virtual-Stones Blog: February 2015
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06 February, 2015. Yesterday one of my fellow 2014 vExperts mentioned me in a tweet, I received vExpert 2015 status! That was a great way to finish the day, thanks Niels for the mention! For a complete list of vExperts 2015 please checkout the following link:. Http:/ blogs.vmware.com/vmtn/2015/02/vexpert-2014-announcement-2.html. 02 February, 2015. VMware reveals vSphere 6! So why does VMware call this the biggest launch in VMware history? With the new release VMware is focusing more and more on vCenter ...
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Virtual-Stones Blog: VMworld US and Europe 2017 Dates and Locations
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18 November, 2016. VMworld US and Europe 2017 Dates and Locations. VMware confirmed the dates and locations of the 2017 edition of VMworld in both US and Europe. Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas. August 27 - August 31. Fira Gran Via in Barcelona. September 11 - September 14*. Please note that the VMworld Europe event is about a month earlier compared to the event dates of previous years. So if you already put a blocker in your calendar, make sure to update this ASAP! VSphere 5 introduced a new...
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