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Useful VMware Reference Posters! (NSX/VCSA 6.5/PowerCLI 6.5/PSC Toplogy Tree)

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Useful VMware Reference Posters!

(NSX/VCSA 6.5/PowerCLI 6.5/PSC Toplogy Tree)

 

For all those VMware techies out there that work with VMware solutions on a daily basis, it’s hard to remember everything we need to know related to the many solutions we manage. So VMware has created several VMware Reference Posters to help us out when we need a little reminder as far as a command-line argument, configuration option, etc.

At the VMware provided website, they have provided us with (3) reference posters for working with PowerCLI 6.5 R1, vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA), and Platform Services Controllers (PSC) Topology Decision Tree. Click on the below link to go to the VMware Reference Poster site and download your copy of these great tools!

VMware Reference Posters Link:   https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/posters

Although not listed in the above site, there is also a NSX Reference Poster that is also available! So for those that are managing VMware NSX, I highly recommend you download this poster and keep it handy, I am sure you will need to use it at some point in time while managing NSX.

The dimensions for the NSX posters are designed to be printed in a high-resolution A3 size (no lower than 300 dpi). 

  • In inches: 11.7 x 16.5
  • In mm: 297 x 420

NSX Reference Poster (Printable Version):  Click Here to Download!

NSX Reference Poster:  Click Here to Download!

 

VMware Validated Design for SDDC 4.0…

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VMware Validated Design for SDDC 4.0 Architecture Reference Poster [blogs.vmware.com]

VMware Validated Design for SDDC 4.0…

On March 2nd 2017 we released the VMware Validated Design for Software-Defined Data Center 4.0. A milestone release in our commitment to delivering our customers standardized, proven, and robust data-center level designs for the Software-Defined Data Center.

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vRealize Operations Management Pack For vCloud Air 3.1 Is Now Live!

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vRealize Operations Management Pack For vCloud Air 3.1 Is Now Live!

I am pleased to announce that vRealize Operations Management Pack for vCloud Air 3.1 is now live at Solution Exchange.

Management Pack 3.1 extends vRealize Operations Manager to monitor vCloud Air infrastructure and adds metrics, dashboards, reports, and alerts for newly released services – Dedicated Disaster Recovery, High Performance Storage, and Hybrid Cloud Manager 2.0 U2.

Highlights:

  • Hybrid Disaster Recovery (aka Dedicated Disaster Recovery) dashboards, reports and alerts
    • Count and spread of VMs with replication enabled and disabled
    • Count and spread of VMs with RPO violations, including average RPO violation time
    • Breakdown of VMs by replication status, test status and recovery status
    • Ongoing replications with VM name, source, target, replication status, test status, recovery status, RPO, sync time, sync duration, and sync size
    • Ongoing replications with replication, test, or recovery errors
    • VM topology with and without replication on stretched networks
  • High Performance Storage dashboards, reports and alerts for IOPs, quotas, and violations
  • Hybrid Cloud Manager 2.0 U2 dashboards, reports and alerts
    • Monitoring and alerts for Hybrid Cloud Manager SD-WAN fleet components – Cloud Gateway, High Throughput Layer-2 Concentrator, and WAN optimizer
    • Health and status of Hybrid Cloud Manager components, tunnel, and virtual machine migrations
    • Dashboards and reports for migration planning – Low and No-downtime workload migration and tracking

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Requirements:

  • vCloud Air Dedicated Cloud or VPC Subscription
  • vRealize Operations Manager 6.x

Download Landing Page:  Solution Exchange

 

Migrate from Windows vCenter to vCenter Server Appliance to access new features

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Migrate from Windows vCenter to vCenter Server Appliance to access new features – via TechTarget

Migrate from Windows vCenter to vCenter Server…

With greater scalability, cost-efficiency and ease-of-deployment, it’s no wonder more and more users are flocking from Windows-based vCenter to the vCenter Server Appliance.

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VMware NSX for vSphere Essentials: A practical guide to implementing Network Virtualization

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Available for pre order – VMware NSX for vSphere Essentials: A practical guide to implementing Network Virtualization

Available for pre order – VMware NSX for…

This is the first definitive reference for all network and data center virtualization professionals planning, implementing, or operating VMware NSX 6.2 for vSphere.

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vSphere Optimization Assessment (VOA) Enhanced Evaluation

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vSphere Optimization Assessment Enhanced Evaluation

vSphere Optimization Assessment Enhanced…

Improve your vSphere configuration, performance and capacity utilization with a free vSphere Optimization Assessment enhanced evaluation. Get started now.

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Moving from windows vCenter to vCSA 6.5 using…

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Moving from windows vCenter to vCSA 6.5 using the migration-assistant – vPirate

Moving from windows vCenter to vCSA 6.5 using…

Since the introduction of vCenter Server appliance (vCSA), there has always been a debate on which one is better (Windows based deployment or vCSA) and what one’s advantages over the other is.

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WinSCP and the VCSA – vRatpack

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WinSCP and the VCSA – vRatpack

WinSCP and the VCSA – vRatpack

Have you ever tried to upload / download files using WinSCP to / from the VCSA >= v. 6.0? Out of the box, this won’t work. In this post I’ll show you how to fix this.

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vSAN Troubleshooting Tools (Part 1)

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vSAN Troubleshooting Tools (Part 1)

vSAN Troubleshooting Tools (Part 1)

In Part 1 of the vSAN Troubleshooting Tools series, Francis Daly covers VMware’s most useful troubleshooting tools for vSAN- vSphere web client, esxcli and more.

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New Release: PowerCLI 6.5 R1 – VMware PowerCLI…

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New Release: PowerCLI 6.5 R1 – VMware PowerCLI Blog

New Release: PowerCLI 6.5 R1 – VMware PowerCLI…

There’s been a lot of buzz around PowerCLI lately, and we’re keeping it going! It gives me great pleasure to announce the general availability of VMware PowerCLI 6.5 Release 1!

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Unveiling Project Clarity – VMware CTO Blog

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Unveiling Project Clarity – VMware CTO Blog

Unveiling Project Clarity – VMware CTO Blog

Today we’re ecstatic to announce Project Clarity, a design system that combines UX guidelines, patterns, and front-end code in one solution. Clarity is for the designer and developer in each of us.

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Cool Tool: SDDC Discovery aka bringing back “Maps” — Yellow Bricks

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Advertise here with BSAYou still recall the days where you had the awesome map view in the vCenter Client? That unfortunately was removed from the Web Client. A shame as it was very useful for troubleshooting and seeing relationships between components of their stack. Guess what?! We just released a fling where we show you a…

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Automatic space reclamation (UNMAP) is back in…

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Automatic space reclamation (UNMAP) is back in vSphere 6.5 -via vSphere-land

Automatic space reclamation (UNMAP) is back in…

A long time ago in a vSphere version far, far away VMware introduced support for automatic space reclamation which allowed vSphere to send UNMAP commands to a storage array so space from deleted or moved VMs could be un-allocated (reclaimed) on the storage array. This was a welcome feature as block storage arrays have no visibility inside a VMFS volume so when any data is deleted by vSphere the array is unaware of it and it remains allocated on the array. UNMAP was supposed to fix that so when data was deleted vSphere would send a string of UNMAP commands to the array telling it exactly which disk blocks it could have back.

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vSphere 6.5 Link-O-Rama

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vSphere 6.5 Link-O-Rama – vSphere-land

vSphere 6.5 Link-O-Rama

Your complete guide to all the essential vSphere 6.5 links from all over the VMware universe. Bookmark this page and keep checking back as it will continue to grow as new links are added everyday. Also be sure and check out the Planet vSphere-land feed for all the latest blog posts from the Top 100 vBloggers.

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New MDM Migration Tool Automates Transition…

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New MDM Migration Tool Automates Transition from Legacy Vendors to AirWatch EMM -AirWatch Blog

New MDM Migration Tool Automates Transition…

Migrating from legacy mobile device management (MDM) to enterprise mobility management (EMM) is a painful process. Often that pain blocks IT from moving to a desired, next-gen EMM platform. To help IT get the EMM tools they need without the hassle, VMware today announced a new automated MDM migration tool and professional services. VMware’s innovative […]

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VCSA Migration Tool gets official release

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VCSA Migration Tool gets official release -vMustard.com

VCSA Migration Tool gets official release

The migration path from Windows vCenter Server to the vCenter Appliance has just got a whole lot more official, after the VCSA migration tool gets it’s official release. Formerly only available as a Fling, the newly GA’d Windows vCenter Server to vCenter Server Appliance Migration Toolprovides an officially supported upgrade and migration path… The post VCSA Migration Tool gets official release appeared first on vMustard.com.

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