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30 November 2020

Horizon 7.13 “ESB” release

As a follow-up on my previous post I have good news for the customers that need to stay on Horizon 7 release, most probably due to the support for the older Windows 8.1 Operating System. Recently (Oct 15, 2020) Horizon 7.13 reached GA and VMware decided to consider this as an unofficial Extended Service Branch release meaning VMware is committed...

Horizon Comments: 0

26 July 2020

How to setup an SSH keypair for use with vRealize Automation 8 Blueprints

Introduction I have started my career mainly working with Windows as Guest Operating system, but during the years I’ve been using Linux (mainly Red Hat and CentOS and lately Ubuntu) more and more. I am by far a specialist, but I know enough to do the basic setup, install an application, and do some simple configuration stuff. What I like...

Linux/vRA Comments: 0

15 July 2020

Change vCenter Identity Source from IWA to LDAPS

Introduction Update 15/11/2021 VMware has just released [VMSA-2021-0025] describing an IWA privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2021-22048). There will probably be a patch, but the workaround is to use AD over LDAPS authentication or Identity Provider Federation for ADFS if you are on vSphere 7.x. So if you didn’t have time to switch to one of these methodes, now is the time...

vCenter/vSphere Comments: 6

13 July 2020

Upgrade to vROPS 8.1.1 with vRealize LifeCycle Manager

VMware released vRealize Operations Manager 8.1.1. This is a maintenance release which resolves a few important security and functionality issues identified in the product. The release notes can be found here: https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Operations-Manager/8.1.1/rn/vRealize-Operations-Manager-811.html Just like with the vRLI 8.1.1 release, you need to update vRSLCM with a Product Support Pack, which is 8.1.0.2 in this case. You may have received a...

vROPS/vRSLCM

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 Comments: 2

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

30 May 2020

Upgrade to vRealize Log Insight 8.1.1 with vRealize LifeCycle Manager

VMware just release vRealize Log Insight 8.1.1, which is a maintenance release that includes security fixes to resolve CVE-2020-3953 (See VMSA-2020-0007 and updates (see KB79258). According to the release notes, this release also helps you leverage the benefits of community supported content packs. Since I use vRSLCM to manage the lifecycle of my vRealize components I hit Check Patches Online...

vRLI/vRSLCM Comments: 0

21 May 2020

vRSLCM 8.1 Patch 1

Today May 22nd 2020, VMware has released Patch 1 for vRealize LifeCycle Manager (vRSLCM) 8.1. The release notes can be found here: [link]. So what is new? Not that much to the eye, mainly some fixes around vRA that might be usefull for your situation: Scale-out of Patched Environments [link]. See screenshot at the end. Integration Improvements between vRealize Automation...

vRA/vRSLCM 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 Comments: 2

5 April 2020

vRA8 Infoblox Integration

Update: 04-may-2020; updates links/versions. This article describes the basic setup for the vRA 8 Infoblox integration. Official VMware documentation about this topic can be found at the following link: “Add an external IPAM integration point in vRealize Automation Cloud Assembly” [link]. Infoblox has written a Deployment Guide which can be found here [link]. The new v1.1 vRA Infoblox Plugin can...

Automation/vRA Comments: 3