“Building NSX Powered Clouds and Data Centers for SMBs” is available now“Building NSX Powered Clouds and Data Centers...I am honored and humbled to announce my new book “Building NSX Powered Clouds and Data Centers for Small and Medium Businesses”. This is a concise book that provides step by step information to design and deploy NSX... Continue Reading →
New “Bridge” Upgrade Path for Current VCPsNew “Bridge” Upgrade Path for Current VCPsHappy New Year! I have a new change to announce for our current VCP candidates that is a bit of good news and will help those who haven’t upgraded yet to the most current version. Recently, I posted a blog to help VCP... Continue Reading →
Supporting TLS v1.2 with PowerShell SecurityProtocolTypeSupporting TLS v1.2 with PowerShell...With Microsoft PowerShell v5.1, the default security protocols used for the Invoke-WebRequest and Invoke-RestMethod cmdlets is either SSL v3.0 or TLS v1.0. Both of these protocols are fairly long in the tooth, with SSL v3.0 being somewhat uncommon in the wild when compared to TLS (Transport... Continue Reading →
User with Administrator role can't upload files to datastores - See a solution for vSphere and ESXi 6.5 on #VMTNUser with Administrator role can't upload files...Using vSphere 6.5, ESXi 6.5 connected to VMFS 5, VMFS 6, and NFS datastores. I have a user that I've given the Administrator role to directly to some datastores, and... Continue Reading →
The Community Pulse – Top VMTN Content in December 2017The Community Pulse – Top VMTN Content in...Happy New Year, VMware Community! Welcome to the Community Pulse – a monthly blog series that packages and delivers the most trafficked content in the VMTN forums for your consumption. Get a kick start to 2018 by reading about... Continue Reading →
vSpeaking Podcast Episode 65: Expert Blogging TipsvSpeaking Podcast Episode 65: Expert Blogging TipsHappy New Year! Many of us in the IT community have made the resolution to either start a new blog or to start blogging more often. We all see the benefit. Who hasn’t done a google search and landed on someone else’s work... Continue Reading →
End-to-end Mobile Security with VMware Airwatch & NSXEnd-to-end Mobile Security with VMware Airwatch...With the proliferation of mobile devices accessing business critical resources, limiting a mobile user’s footprint inside the organization is critical for preventing unauthorized access to internal resources. In this lightboard you will see how the AirWatch + NSX integration can provide an end-to-end... Continue Reading →
Monitoring MS SQL Server Performance with Wavefront Metrics-Driven AnalyticsMonitoring MS SQL Server Performance with...It's always a challenge to optimize the performance of an application to be highly available and without customer-impacting latencies. For critical application services like databases, if there is a degradation in its performance, then all other services using that database will have... Continue Reading →
vCenter Server 6.5 Update 1d Includes Third Update to HTML5 vSphere Client vCenter Server 6.5 Update 1d Includes Third... vSphere 6.5 Update 1d was released in December 2017. While this update primarily focused on security and package updates for vCenter Server and ESXi, it also came with an update to the HTML5 vSphere Client. This... Continue Reading →
Getting More Out Of NSX Webcast SeriesGetting More Out Of NSX Webcast SeriesEach episode in this Getting More Out of NSX webcast series has its own topic, so there is no need to watch each episode to understand the next one. The episodes cover a variety of NSX features and explain in detail how NSX... Continue Reading →
