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Closing Your Automation Gap with VMware Cloud...

Closing Your Automation Gap with VMware Cloud…

Closing Your Automation Gap with VMware Cloud Foundation [blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation]

Closing Your Automation Gap with VMware Cloud…

See how VMware Cloud Foundation closes a big gap in data center automation. It steps in as a unique solution and automates steps which almost always are done manually in data centers today, despite the broad range of available tools.

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Closing Your Automation Gap with VMware Cloud...

Closing Your Automation Gap with VMware Cloud…

Closing Your Automation Gap with VMware Cloud Foundation [blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation]

Closing Your Automation Gap with VMware Cloud…

See how VMware Cloud Foundation closes a big gap in data center automation. It steps in as a unique solution and automates steps which almost always are done manually in data centers today, despite the broad range of available tools.

VMware Social Media…

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vShield Endpoint with vSphere 6.0

vShield Endpoint with vSphere 6.0

I’ve heard some questions regarding vShield Endpoint being supported with vSphere 6.0.  Some of the confusion has come from various announcements of End of Availability and End of Support for vCloud Networking and Security.  Before I answer the question of using vShield Endpoint with vSphere 6.0, let’s first look at the history of the vShield product line to see where the confusion may come…

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How To Remove Superfish Adware from Lenovo Laptops

How To Remove Superfish Adware from Lenovo Laptops

I started seeing reports of adware/malware being installed on Lenovo laptops yesterday.  The story is picking up steam today (Wired covered it here), and that’s a good thing because this little bit of adware poses some significant risks.  The program causing the problem, Visual Discovery, was pre-installed by Lenovo on some laptop models since August 2014.  Visual Discovery causes pop-up ads and…

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vCenter Virtual Appliance Network Settings Reverting

vCenter Virtual Appliance Network Settings Reverting

In one of my lab environments my vCenter Virtual Appliance (VCVA) kept reverting its DNS server settings after I changed them in the VCVA web interface (https://<name-or-ip-of-vcva&gt;:5480).  After changing the Preferred DNS Server and Alternate DNS Server settings to use my Active Directory Domain Controller IPs and then rebooting the appliance, the DNS settings were removed and the Preferred…

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vCenter Orchestrator Visio Stencil

vCenter Orchestrator Visio Stencil

Here is a Visio stencil containing 118 shapes for vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) that I put together.  It contains basic workflow shapes (start, decision, etc.) as well as other shapes such as directory services, credentials, nested workflows, policies, custom actions and other product specific icons.  If you are mocking up some Orchestrator workflows to automate processes in your virtual data…

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PowerCLI Script to Set DNS and NTP on ESXi Hosts

PowerCLI Script to Set DNS and NTP on ESXi Hosts

Since joining VMware, I’ve built, rebuilt and updated several lab environments (home lab and work labs).  One of the problems I keep running into is incorrect/missing/disabled NTP on my ESXi hosts.  Because lab gear is often abused well-loved, BIOS time is not always correct (long periods of being powered off), settings are all sorts of jacked up (it’s a lab, we’re engineers, let’s break…

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A Stage Hand in Act Two - Thoughts on Joining VMware

I’ve been incredibly fortunate over the past several years to have worked with many VMware…

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