Last week VMware announced a huge set of product releases, focusing on VMware Tanzu, vSphere 7.0 with Kubernetes inside, and VMware Cloud Foundation 4.0 A large part of the Tanzu product offering involves products and services that came with the acquisition of Pivotal. One of the Tools that VMware has inherited from the Pivotal ecosystem,
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If you have been around the VMware ecosystem for any length of time, you will be aware that PowerCLI, a set of modules for Microsoft PowerShell, has long been the tool of choice to control VMware products over the command line. If you are a little more Linux minded or remember the ESX service console,
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---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update March 2018: I added an additional blogpost with some more vIDM related troubleshooting, when rolling out from Lifecycle Manager https://thefluffyadmin.net/?p=1295 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- VMware products always contain a local account directory of some kind. vSphere for example has its local SSO (these days hosted by the Platform Services Controller component), and every appliance has a
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When doing vSphere Metro Storage Cluster, on the shared storage layer, you often have a 'fallback' side. The LUN that will become authoritative for reading and writing in case of a site failure, or a split brain. This makes VM storage placement on the correct Datastores rather important from an availability perspective. Up till now,
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Among all the great new features and improvements made to vSphere 6.5, some of the ones I am most exited about are the improvements to DRS and HA. So lets zoom into those briefly. This information comes mostly from VMware pre-sales marketing material and should be considered preliminary. I hope to try out some of
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