My current customer has been using Trend Micro’s Deep Security Management pack for vRealize Operations Manager. Unfortunately the MP isn’t supported on the latest version of vSphere. And while my customer is bound by government regulation to stay updated, waiting for an update of the MP was not an option. So I was tasked to […]
About a week ago I got a question from my customer if it was possible to get the NSX-v security tag information in vROPs. I thought this would be something that is already in vROPs natively. But to my surprise this is not the case. I know one can get data into vROPs using API […]
As of yesterday vSphere 7 is announced! VMware is putting a lot of information out there. So I thought it’s good to sort all the info in one blog, a sort of one stop info page. I’ll keep the page updated as new information is made public, so keep on returning! Overview of vSphere […]
Today I ran into a somewhat funny problem. While trying to have vRLI send alerts to vROPs. I was unable to select the fall back object, which is a mandatory step. And thus without the ability to select an vROPs object I was stuck. The funny part was that vROPs had no problem with the […]
I don’t recommend changing these settings. But due to pen testing the Application Remote Collector kept locking me out. On every other day I would leave the settings as they are, but in order to have a productive day I had to change them. Like with any Linux box you can easily manipulate lockout times […]
I’m super happy to write that as of yesterday i am a vExpert! Not that long ago I started blogging and to become a vExpert this fast is super satisfying! I will continue blogging and helping the (VMware) community!
Today I ran into a problem when trying to replace the self-signed SSL certificates used in a VMware Cloud Foundation 3.9 deployment. Due to security reasons the customer didn’t setup a Microsoft CA. So I had to replace the certificates by hand. This process is well documented on this link. The only thing not documented […]
As promised I would write about my journey towards VCAP DCV Deploy. Instead of writing what I did and why and how (your starting point can be different than mine), I thought why not keep it simple and give 17 tips, why 17 you might wonder? Well the VCAP DCV Deploy exam is made up […]
I was quite surprised that Netcat (nc) wasn’t found on vROPs when I wanted to troubleshoot some syslog issues. Luckily Netcat can be installed quite easy, just hit tdnf install netcat I think Netcat should be default on any Linux box… even if you rename them to vSomething…
My current customer is planning to fully use vRealize Automation for deploying VMs, something I can only encourage. As they are hardcore into developing their own software and applications for their customers, they expect to deploy 30 to 40 VMs every week. Some of which for a long period of time others will be deleted […]