Category: VMware

  • Security sessions at VMworld 2021

    In this second post on VMworld session recommendations, I want to share some picks in security from the content catalog. It is going to be a busy week! See my blog on cloud management sessions I published before. Although I am an infrastructure guy and I have worked a long time in systems monitoring, I…

  • My personal picks for cloud management at VMworld 2021

    VMworld is upon us again, the greatest VMware tech show of the year. I have attended every EMEA version in Barcelona since 2012 and even one in San Francisco in 2013. This year it is online again, like last year, but that should not stop you from attending. When I went over the content catalog…

  • vRealize Log Insight upgrade gotchas

    I recently had to upgrade two log insight instances for a customer from 4.x to 8.x. This was a manual process in two phases (you have to upgrade to 4.8 first). After the upgrade Log Insight was running, but we saw intermittent collection/task error messages on the vCenters. (Every instance connects to 4 vCenters). I…

  • Cloud management announcements at VMWorld!

    Last week we had a briefing in the vExpert Cloud Management program on the announcements for VMWorld 2020 this week. It is one of the great perks of the program. Product managers and technical marketing take time to present to the team, which is greatly appreciated! The announcements in a nutshell are:– VMware vRealize Cloud…

  • Orbital Jigsaw community during VMWorld 2020!

    OK so you have seen a ton of pictures people post from previous VMWorld conferences, lamenting that it is an online event this year… Well the folks at Orbital Jigsaw have made a big effort to make it more of a community event with live corona-proof interactions! Their Discord Server will be running a free…