VMware Telco Cloud Platform Sample Architecture Visio

A quick post to share a sample Visio of the VMware Telco Cloud Platform (TCP) on Dell infrastructure.

Adding a vSphere infrastructure to VMware Telco Cloud Automation

This post provides an overview of what’s required when adding a vSphere infrastructure to VMware Telco Cloud Automation.

SDDC Manager – No images found for product vCenter

Quick post to help guide folks to the correct course of action if you hit this issue which I came across in VCF 3.10.0.1 on VxRail.

Deploying VCF on VxRail – Understanding What does What

Published Aug 19th 2019

This post is a result of me wanting to understand the various install-tools, steps, and processes involved in deploying VCF on VxRail.

Forward Avamar log files to VMware Log Insight

This post covers how to forward the log files for DellEMC Avamar Server to VMware Log Insight.

Backup vRealize Operations Manager with Avamar

This post covers how to manage On-Demand and Scheduled Backups for VMware vRealize Operations Manager with Dell EMC Avamar.

Adding VVD vCenter Clients to Avamar

This post covers how to add VVD on VxRail vCenter Servers to DellEMC Avamar.

BlueMedora VxRail Management Pack for vROps

As of VMworld 2018, the folks at Blue Medora have released the VxRail Management Pack for vROps, so naturally enough we wanted to find out what it could do.

vSAN Disk Group Unknown in vROps

While installing and configuring some vROps Management Packs, we came across an issue where the vSAN Disk Groups were showing ‘Unknown Health’ in vROps.

VVD on VxRail: Deployment Options

VMware Validated Design (VVD) on VxRail was recently announced and has been attracting great interest. This post provides a high level overview of the available deployment options.

EHC Disaster Recovery as-a-Service Overview

The Enterprise Hybrid Cloud DRaaS solution leverages DellEMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines-based disaster recovery to restart or recover VMware virtual machine workloads and cloud management infrastructure to another converged infrastructure platform on an alternate site.

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vRB Storage Costs by Storage Profile begone

For any customers accustomed to using VM Storage Profiles as a means to display their Storage Costs in vRealize Business, be aware that as of vSphere v6.0, this is no longer possible.

Configure vROps Remote Collectors

This post covers the configuration of remote collectors for vRealize Operations Manager, and explains how they are leveraged for the Enterprise Hybrid Cloud solution.

vRA VM Backup, Delete, Restore – What’s the Problem?

Virtual machine lifecycle management is a key feature and function of VMware vRA. Policies can be put in place to control virtual machine requests, approvals, provisioning, expiration, and reclamation. With the EHC solution, we can also include automatic backup and restore in the VM lifecycle.

But what happens when a user decides to destroy a VM, only to realise shortly afterwards their mistake, meaning they now need to restore a VM that has been destroyed? Well, that’s the thing …

vRB for Cloud and vROps Integration

As of vRB for Cloud v7.1, the integration between vRB and vRealize Operations Manager has changed to what the official documents describe as ‘seamless integration’.

Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Multisite Services

The release of Enterprise Hybrid Cloud v4.0 has enabled EHC customers to leverage EHC services across multiple sites. This multi-site functionality is one of the major themes for the v4.0 release and is based upon the ability to provide EHC services to multiple vCenter endpoints.

This post will explain some of the options available to EHC customers.

Upgrade vRB v6.2.3 to v7.1

We wanted to upgrade our EHC lab instance of vRealize Business Standard (v6.2.3) to vRealize Business for Cloud (v7.1.0). Using vRB v7.x has been a common request for some of our Financial customers who required vRB to support the Swiss Franc.

So after a quick glance at the vRB 7.x Install Guide, we realised that this is a migration, not an upgrade.

Monitor RP4VM with vROps

The recent release of EMC Storage Analytics (ESA) for vRealize Operations Manager provides the ability to discover and monitor EMC RP4VM (RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines).

This post will walk through the installation and configuration of the RP4VM adapter in vROps and show some of the available dashboards.

Updating Certificates for vROps

Going through a process of converting all self-signed certificates in our EHC environment to CA-signed certs. First we converted all of the vCenter Server certificates, available here, but then we were faced with updating the certificates used by the various other vRealize Suite components that integrate with vCenter.

vRealize Operations Manager was the first on the list of those components.

Converting vCenter Self-signed Certs to CA-signed Certs

This post provides some high-level detail on what was required for us to migrate to CA-signed certificates on an existing vCenter Server  installation. Our overall plan was to upgrade versions of the EHC solution (EHC v3.1 to EHC v3.5) which meant that we needed to upgrade from vSphere v5, using SSO, to vSphere 6, using the new PSC (Platform Services Controller).