vSphere – vTAM

2 July 2021

Integrating vLCM with UMDS and/or HPE OneView

With the new vSphere 7 vLCM capabilities we are able to integrate with our own and third-party patch-store products to provide vLCM with the needed patches, drivers and firmware in an attempt to update our servers with a single cluster image. This all sounds very nice but along the way we may encounter several issues with certificates, downloading patches and...

vCenter/VCF/vLCM/vSphere Comments: 0

15 July 2020

Change vCenter Identity Source from IWA to LDAPS

Introduction Updated 11/03/2021 A while ago Microsoft released an advisory regarding a change in LDAP channel binding and signing. There was some confusion about this in relation to VMware Products that used the Integrated Windows Authentication method (IWA). Fortunately, there were some great blogposts (1 and 2) from Bob Plankers on how this may impact VMware Products. To sum things...

vCenter/vSphere Comments: 4

28 June 2020

Configure Compliance Monitoring with vRealize Operations Manager (vROPS)

Introduction Many organizations have the requirement to comply with relevant laws, policies, and regulations. The fastest way to set this up for your vSphere environment is to use PowerCLI scripts. Configuring these settings is only part of the solution; after that you will have to monitor and report on Compliance. This is where vROPS comes to the rescue! The option...

vROPS/vSphere Comment: 1

17 June 2020

PaaS Capabilities and how VMware Tanzu fits in

VMware is on a mission when it comes to supporting Modern [Cloud Native] Applications. This journey started many years ago and was aimed to support existing customers to Run, Build and Manage all their applications on their existing platform (the VMware Software Defined Datacenter as we call it). VMware also has an healthy urge to deliver customers the best solutions...

CNA/TANZU/TAS/TKG/TKGI/vSphere Comments: 0

20 May 2020

VIA – VMware Imaging Appliance

Many customers need and use tooling for imaging their ESXi-servers. Some of them are very old and some newer but unable to image their servers using the latest ESXi builds. Not many know that the VMware Cloud Foundation Suite is incorporating an Imaging Appliance (VIA). This appliance started it’s life during the EVO:Rail and EVO:Rack era at VMware. With this...

ESXi/VCF/vSphere Comment: 1

Category: vSphere

Integrating vLCM with UMDS and/or HPE OneView

Change vCenter Identity Source from IWA to LDAPS

Configure Compliance Monitoring with vRealize Operations Manager (vROPS)

PaaS Capabilities and how VMware Tanzu fits in

VIA – VMware Imaging Appliance