Over the past week there have been a number of posts around the new vSphere Beta which is the first step in testing the next major release from VMware following vSphere 6. As has become custom there is a private beta form that can be accessed here and people that are interested can fill out the form […] Read More
Critical Security Issue Client Integration Plugin | vCloud Director 5.5.6 Released
Last week VMware released advisory VMSA-2016-0004 for a critical security issue found in the Client Integration Plugin which is found in versions of vCenter, vCloud Director and vRealize Automation. From going through the advisory the Client Integration Plugin does not handle session content in a “safe way” which may allow for a Man in the Middle attack or […] Read More
VCIX-NV Follow-up: Wearable Heart Rates and VCP Inheritance
Last week I sat and passed the VCIX-NV (VCXN610) exam and I thought I would follow-up last weeks Review Post with some interesting…well I think interesting observations I picked up from my JawBone device during the course of the exam as well as give an update on some questions around what passing the VCIX-NV in it’s […] Read More
VCIX-NV Exam Recap
What a effort that was! Today I sat and passed the VCIX-NV (VCXN610) exam and I can say that this exam has taken a fair bit out of me over the last month or so. I had been aiming to take this exam late last year but other commitments got in the way and I took […] Read More
Important – vCNS and NSX End of Availability and Support Notifications
For a while now we have known that vCloud Networking and Security’s days where numbered…with the release of NSX as a replacement+ product it had been communicated to current vCNS customers that an upgrade to NSX-v would be on the cards to ensure continued support and functionality. The date has now been set for the EOA […] Read More
NSX Bytes: Controller Deployment Gone Bad?
With NSX becoming more and more widely available there are more NSX home labs being stood up and with that the chances of the NSX Controllers failing due to “Home Lab” nested issues become more prevalent. The NSX Controllers are Ubuntu Linux VMs and like any Linux VM are fairly sensitive to storage latency and […] Read More
vSphere 6 Update 2 – Whats In It for Service Providers
It’s been just over a week since VMware released vSphere 6 Update 2 and I thought I would go through some of the key features and fixes that are included in the latest versions of vCenter and ESXi. As usual I generally keep an eye out for improvements that relate back to Service Providers who […] Read More
Quick Fix: VCSA MAC Address Conflict Migration Fail + Fix
The old changing of the MAC address causing NIC/IP issues has raised it’s ugly head again…this time during a planned migration of one of our VCSA from one vCenter to another vCenter. Ran into an issue where the source VM running on an ESXi 5.5 Update 3a host, had a MAC address that wasn’t compatible […] Read More
CloudPhysics Exploration Mode – New Host View
Late last year CloudPhysics released their VM Exploration mode feature which allowed for a detailed look into what was happening holistically to a VM with the ability to view key metrics and VM related events over an extended period of time. Last weekend CloudPhsyics extended this to also include Hosts. Extending Exploration Mode to include Hosts […] Read More
Released: vCloud Director SP 8.0.1
Somewhat hidden among the major releases that came our from VMware HQ yesterday was a point release for vCloud Director SP 8.x. This takes the vCD SP Build to 3635340. The build is mainly a maintenance release but does address a major issue with the upload and downloading of OVF and other media in Chrome. After […] Read More