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The Eigencast 027: VMworld 2017 Preview With Stu Miniman
Justin talks to Stu Miniman from Silicon Angle Media about the upcoming VMworld 2017 conference. Read More
Tag Archives: vmware
SFD9 Prep: VMware
VMware is spending on SaaS and marketing new products, one of which is VSAN, which I don’t really like. Read More
HowTo: Platform9 + Ravello + VMware
RavelloSystems provides a cloud-based platform for spinning up a test-lab quickly and easily, and it supports VMware’s vSphere/ESXi hypervisor through nested hypervisors (running ESXi on a Google or AWS compute instance). Platform9 is a cloud-based automation and control platform for spinning up and managing an OpenStack environment quickly and easily, … Read More
vROps in Practice: Review After A Month
This is the third post in a series on vROps sponsored by VMware. Check out part 1 and part 2. I’ve had vROps running in the lab for over a month now, and I’ve also been playing with it in Hands On Labs. Overall, it’s a good product, though not … Read More
Configuring VMware vROps For The First Time
This is part of a series of posts sponsored by VMware. Read my disclosure statement here. You’ve got vROps installed after reading my last post on how to do it. Great! Now what? Now we need to configure it to do things. This is both really easy, and also a … Read More
Installing VMware vROps for the First Time
This is part of a series of posts sponsored by VMware. Check out part 2 and part 3. Read my disclosure statement here. What is it like to install vROps from scratch for the first time? Until this post series, I’d never done it, and while you can have a … Read More
Configuring vRealize Operations on Ravello
To get the vRealize Operations OVA uploaded and installed on Ravello Systems, read my previous post about how to do that. Once you’ve got the VM added to your Ravello application, you’ll need to configure a couple of things so that it starts correctly at boot time. HTTPS Service vRO has … Read More
Installing VMware vRO on a Scale Computing Cluster
Hopefully you’ve had time to read my blog on getting VMware vRealize Operations Manager (vRO) running on Ravello Systems cloud platform. Since I recently took delivery of a Scale Computing cluster (kindly gifted to me by the lovely people at Scale, thanks @bocanuts) and I’ve been playing with image installs … Read More
vRealize Operations Review: Disclosure
I’m about to pen a series of blogs about VMware’s vRealize Operations Manager product (vRO), and in the interests of full disclosure, I need to tell you that I’m being paid to do so, and the parameters of this engagement. By now I hope you’re familiar with my approach to disclosure, and … Read More
How To Import OVA/OVF Into Ravello
I’m currently taking advantage of the generous vExpert offering from Ravello Systems, wherein we get some free time every month. So far it’s an excellent service, though not without some flaws, but hey, they’re brand new! I may do a more comprehensive writeup on Ravello later on, but if you’re … Read More