Day 2 VMworld – The vCommunity perspective

November 7, 2018 Kim Bottu 0

It’s been a wonderful but at the same time very long and tiring day for me today. The sessions attended have been awesome, the people around me have been ‘super’ but unfortunately, last Monday night, I had the excellent -ahum- idea, to only drink soda drinks. Needless to say, I didn’t sleep that well on the night from Monday going on Tuesday. Oh well.. I have learned from that mistake 🙂  . The vCommunity post Today, for the most time, I have been thinking and pondering about writing an article about the general session. Also about how the technical sessions I have attended today, fit in the vision gospelled in the general session. But let’s discard that idea. There are […]

VMworld 2018 – Day One

November 6, 2018 Kim Bottu 0

Finally, VMworld we meet once more! The sixth or seventh time already and still I am enjoying it as much as the first time, if not more! VMworld is a special event, not just for the technical content which is being gospelled in all sessions but also because it is wonderful to meet and greet my distant friends from around the globe in person, some of whom I have never met outside of the virtual world until today –> Hello Valdecir and Bilal, really nice to finally meetup in person! Something else what really makes VMworld special this year, is that there are four vMusketeers attending VMworld: Frederiek, Bilal, Stijn and myself! That means that almost half of our little […]

Creating a SSL certificate using OpenSSL to be used for EPOPS and VROPS

October 30, 2018 Kim Bottu 1

At one of my previous customers, I was asked to look into setting up load balancing for EPOPS agents. Unfortunately there was no PKI infrastructure, so I had to use Open SSL. There is a lot of documentation on how to create self-certificates for vROPS but I didn’t find anything on how to create a custom certificate to be used for EPOPS as well. So what follows  is a procedure how to create a vROPS certificate using OpenSSL, which you can use for EPOPS agents as well. Take note that the following has been created using OpenSSL for Windows. Requirements Take note that the NSX load balancer will perform SSL Passthrough and that when you configure the EPOPS agent you […]

VSAN at VMworld – What you can’t miss!

October 26, 2018 Stijn Depril 0

Only a couple of days before the doors at Gran Fira open for a new edition of VMworld in Barcelona! Before packing your bags, I hope you all had a view at the session builder and scheduled the sessions you believe will be most beneficial for you! I would like to make a suggestion to fill these tiny free spaces in your diary. As you know, I’m working on building the VSAN business in the Benelux region. So it probably won’t surprise you that my suggestion is fully packed with storage sessions! Oh and by the way while you are at it. Come and have a talk with my fellow vMusketeers during VMworld! I might have some cool swag for […]

The 3 “not-to-miss” EUC Sessions at VMworld 2018 Europe

October 25, 2018 Frederiek Vanhoornick 0

VMworld 2018 in Barcelona is almost there. I am really excited because there will be some exciting new things to tell. Most of you will already have built up your agenda based upon the content catalog.  But I wanted to give you my 3 “not-to-miss” EUC sessions. Hurry up and register, because places are limited. If you have to choose one session then look no further: This is THE ONE The Digital Workspace Keynote: End User Computing and Mobility Live! [DW3727KE] There has never been a better time to be working in the field of End User Computing. Companies and organizations are putting new investment into mobile technologies and digital tools to increase employee engagement scores, drive productivity, transform business processes […]

Cisco CyberOps CCNA #CyberOps #CCNA #Security #CyberSecurity

October 25, 2018 Bilal Ahmed 0

So now that I have completed and passed this new CCNA. I thought I would write up a blog post about the whole process. Over the last couple of years, Cisco was giving away free online scholarships for this new certification they were releasing. They provided you with the online materials and gave you a voucher to sit each exam twice for free once you had completed all the relevant online coursework. I had postponed it multiple times due to various other things (VCDX/Linux training etc). This was the final run, if I didn’t do it now there was no opportunity to do it again, so I thought why not I have nothing to lose and a lot to gain! […]

Why the vExpert PRO program is important

October 18, 2018 Kim Bottu 0

Over the last couple of days I have heard and have read a lot of negative feedback about the vExpert PRO program. I don’t really want to go in on this because people are entitled to voice their opinion and we don’t always have to agree on everything. Instead, let me tell you why I think this program is important and why I think it is an added value. Four years ago, blogging and public speaking were the last things on my mind. I was too shy and too afraid of running the risk of making a fool of myself in public to even dare anything publicly. But along came Ariel Sanchez. (Yes, that guy again! He is like a […]

vROPS 7.0 SDDC Health Monitoring Solution Management Pack 5.0 – Support for NSX 6.4.1?

October 15, 2018 Kim Bottu 1

This is just a quick post to show that vROPS 7.0 and the SDDC Health Monitoring Solution 5.0 Management Pack for vROPS, is able to monitor NSX for vSphere 6.4.1 despite the fact that NSX 6.4.1 is not officially supported in combination with the SDDC Management Pack 5.0.  Of course the best way forward is to upgrade NSX to a supported version. The following list contains the supported VMware products and the supported versions of those products for the SDDC Health Monitoring Solution Management Pack 5.0. VMware vCenter Server 6.0 U1/U2/U3 latest patch, 6.5.x, and 6.7 VMware NSX for vSphere 6.2.8, 6.2.9, 6.3.5, 6.3.6, 6.4.2, and 6.4.3 VMware vRealize Automation 7.3, 7.4, and 7.5 VMware vRealize Operations Manager 7.0 VMware […]