Why is vCenter Server trying to access assets.contentstack.io or send DNS reques… Why is vCenter Server trying to access… On VMTN I noticed somehow asking why vCenter Server was trying to access assets.contentstack.io, and why there were so many DNS requests for assets.contentstack.io. It took me a while to figure it out, but I noticed that there’s a plugin for the VMware Cloud Provider Services, […]

VMware NSX-T Logical Routing VMware NSX-T Logical Routing Today we are going to talk about the logical routing in the VMware NSX-T environment. As many of you know that the logical routing capability in the NSX-T platform provides the ability to interconnect both virtual and physical workloads deployed in different logical L2 networks. […] VMware Social Media Advocacy

Announcing VMware Aria Operations for Networks 6.9 Announcing VMware Aria Operations for Networks 6.9 Multi-Cloud relies on interconnections. Networks become more complex with more interconnections. One of our strategies is to develop functionality in a world where connections to as many vendors and especially the infrastructure our customers have and rely on is vital. The latest release of […] VMware Social Media Advocacy

An Introduction to Dashboards in VMware Aria Operations for Networks 6.9 An Introduction to Dashboards in VMware Aria… Aria Operations of Networks 6.9 introduces a new Dashboard framework that enables you to create, view and manage dashboards within your setup. The new Home Page consists of the default Dashboards as well as the Custom Dashboards, as seen in the screenshot below: ​ The default dashboard […]

NSX vCenter Plug-in Deployment – Security Only Configuration: Caveats NSX vCenter Plug-in Deployment – Security Only… Caveats to Just the Software Defined Network Security. In this post we will look at the caveats that apply to using NSX security only configuration via the vCenter plug-in. VMware Social Media Advocacy

vRealize Operations – Where did my “Object Relationships” view go? vRealize Operations – Where did my “Object… The Issue From vRealize Operations 8.6.2, it’s been noticed that the “Object Relationships” page has disappeared from the navigation column/settings pages in the product UI. The Cause | This page is being redesigned by the VMware team, and is hidden from view in current releases. VMware Social Media […]

Automating subscription and usage retrieval for vSphere+ and vSAN+ Cloud Service Automating subscription and usage retrieval for… As a follow-up from my earlier blog post which helps customers inventory their current on-premises vSphere/vSAN CPU usage for use with vSphere+, vSAN+ and VCF+ Cloud Services, this post will focus on how customers can easily inventory their vSphere+ and vSAN+ subscription usage, both […] VMware Social Media […]

Get HCX Manager version information using PowerCLI – chrisdooks.com Get HCX Manager version information using… If you have a relatively small HCX deployment, for example a legacy vCenter environment connected to a single VMC on AWS SDDC, lifecycle management of the various HCX components is quite straight forward; you could simply log into each manager (2 in this case) and have a look in the […]

How to Add vSphere Tags to vRealize Operations Alert Emails using a Custom Paylo… How to Add vSphere Tags to vRealize Operations… Learn how to configure a custom payload template & notification in vRealize Operations to include the vSphere Tag in alerts sent by email. VMware Social Media Advocacy

New Career Certifications and a New Specialist Badge to Kick Off the New Year! New Career Certifications and a New Specialist… The VMware certification team has been hard at work, teaming up with subject matter experts and studiously preparing all of the publishing and quality assurance tasks to deliver these new offerings. If you are new to VMware and unsure of the differences and cohesion […]