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Over the past months, I've gotten a lot of questions from customers about what Application Virtual Networks (AVNs) are in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). In this article, the history, architecture and purpose of AVN will be explained. This article expects the reader has a basic understanding of VMware Cloud Foundation. Application Virtual What? Application Virtual... Continue Reading →
After a busy and fun VMworld, it was finally time to update the vRealize components in my homelab environment. Since I was already using vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager for deployment and updates of these components, the first step was to upgrade my current vRSLCM 2.1 environment to vRLSCM 8.0. This is an out-of-place upgrade with... Continue Reading →
VMware Cloud Foundation 3.8 has been officially released which, in my eyes, is a massive release with a lot off new and welcome features making VMware Cloud Foundation even better. Key Features and Benefits This release of VMware Cloud Foundation isn't just a simple update. Although it is just a minor version number change, it... Continue Reading →
With the release of VMware Cloud Foundation 3.7.2 it is now possible to perform a file-level backup and restore of the SDDC Manager next to an image-level backup and restore. But what are the supported backup and restore methods of the other components in VMware Cloud Foundation? Although the general supported backup and restore methods... Continue Reading →
Over the last few months I've done a couple of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 3.x deployments and the question I almost always get is how to perform a startup or shutdown of the VCF environment. Since the documentation for VCF 3.0 and 3.5 doesn't give you any guidance on how to do this, I set... Continue Reading →
This week I finally had time to install vRealize Operations 7.0 in my lab environment. I choose for an new deployment because the old vROPS instance has been upgraded several times starting from I believe 6.1 or 6.2 and ending at 6.7 and I wanted to start with a fresh installation and configuration. Deployment went... Continue Reading →
Last week VMware announced the availability of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 3.0. In this release a lot has changed in relation to the older 2.3 release. Not only in the available feature set but also in the physical architecture and initial bring up procedure. For a complete overview of the new features, the release notes... Continue Reading →
Last week VMware have released vSphere 6.5 Update 2 which contains bug fixes as well as new features. One of these new features is the use of Linked Mode between vCenter Servers with Embedded Platform Services Controllers. In previous versions Linked Mode was only possible with external Platform Services Controllers. This new features has been... Continue Reading →
This month, I have started a project with a customer involving the upgrade of the current vSphere 5.5 environment to vSphere 6.5 including to migration to the vCenter Server Appliance. The environment has already been upgraded several times resulting in a configuration that was uh.. lets call it 'not optimal'. The vCenter Server has been... Continue Reading →
Last week I did my VCDX-DCV defense at the VMware office in the UK. Although pretty nervous before and at the start of the defense, I kind of relaxed and had a pleasant time throughout the entire defense. When the defense is over, they inform you that it could take up to 10 days before... Continue Reading →
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