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As part of my back to basics on AWS, it is now time to discuss creating a ElastiCache cluster. My primary example is creating a ElastiCache cluster to support Redis. Walkthrough Select get started now I like this new feature in case you are an early adopter of outpost Provide a name I’ve selected the … Explore: Create ElastiCache Cluster for Redis in AWS
Whether you are setting up your first AWS environment or you are onboarding a new employee, sometimes you have to perform a quick user add to your organization. Below you will find the quick and easy walkthrough of creating a new user. Go to IAM > Access management > Users add user Provide a username … Explore: Add a new user in AWS IAM
If you are just learning AWS or have been an active user for a while, there comes a time when one must group users together for ease of management. Below you will find the quick steps to create a new user group and assign permissions. Navigate to IAM > Access management > groups > create … Explore: Create a new group in AWS IAM
Have you ever found yourself in a position where you never saved your license key in windows 10 and needed it? It just happened to me recently so here is a quick and easy way to accomplish. Click on the windows key CmdRight click on Command Prompt and select run as administrator $ wmic path … Explore: How to find Windows 10 License Key
Over the last four years the partnership between VMware and Dell Technologies has allowed for some incredible integrations into the Dell portfolio. The flagship of this partnership VxRail has evolved into the new backbone infrastructure component of the modern datacenter. That is why VMware Cloud on Dell is a huge step forward into towards the … Explore: VMware Cloud on Dell EMC (VxRail) VMworld 2020
Earlier this year VMware acquired Datrium and from Datrium comes a new DRaaS offering. DR holds a special place in my heart because when I was at global enterprise companies, the annual if not quarterly DR tests were my responsibility. DR is not a sexy topic to be having in meetings and rarely do people … Explore: VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery (DRaaS) VMworld 2020
At VMworld 2020 the new vRealize AI Cloud was announced. This is a huge step forward for VMware to bring AI into the fold to help optimize customer environments. The ability to create a digital copy of your environment and run ML against the copy in hundreds of scenarios is a game changer for VMware. … Explore: VMware vRealize AI Cloud VMworld 2020
At VMworld they announced the new vRealize Cloud Universal suite of products. This new flexible licensing model merging both onprem and SaaS offerings is a smart move for VMware. VMware is acknowledging that not everyone is 100% cloud yet and by allowing them a single license to manage both the onprem and cloud was the … Explore: VMware vRealize Cloud Universal VMworld 2020
Now that I have my new 7.0 vCenter stood up in my solution center I figured it was time to add in the datacenter and my management cluster. Since I’m playing around in 7.0 I thought I would give the cluster quickstart method a try. Step by step process Right click on the vCenter name … Explore: Deploy VMware Datacenter, Cluster, & Hosts 7.0 Quickstart
It has been a while since I’ve posted a how to article. I’m in the process of building a new solution center and figured why not update my how to install VCSA with a fresh 7.0.0c. As always, plan ahead to avoid long delays for issues that could have been planned around or avoided. Download … Explore: How to Install & Deploy vCenter Server Appliance…
The time came to upgrade my 7.0.0c vCenter to 7.0.0d. I thought I would map out the steps taken to perform the upgrade. Please Remember:Go to the following URL to confirm version number you need for 7.0 d Go to the following URL to confirm all other products are compatible with U3: Once you confirm … Explore: Upgrade VMware vCenter 7.0 to 7.0.0 d
Recently, I had to upgrade my existing VMware 6.7 U3 VCSA to the new 7.0 VCSA. I know a lot of people who are planning for this upgrade by the end of the year so I hope this helps everyone out. Prerequisites Need temp FQDN & IP with valid DNS registration for deployment process, will … Explore: Upgrade vCenter (VCSA) 6.7 U3 to 7.0.0c
Believe it or not I have not had to setup an out of office message in a couple of years. While just clicking around on rusty memory I thought this may make for a good article for those who don’t ever take PTO, like myself. If looking for Microsoft documentation to go even deeper: How … Explore: How to Set Out of Office Message in…
This should be a quick and easy article. Teams is becoming more prevalent in our environments and I am a huge fan of Teams. However, I get the occasional customer and peer asking how to setup a Teams meeting in outlook. Here is a quick article with two options. The Teams Meeting add-in lets users … Explore: How to Schedule Teams Meeting in Outlook
In the last few years as a VMWare person I have watched containers and Kubernetes go from people saying containers cannot replace virtual machines to now Kubernetes being integrated into vSphere. Years ago, I thought containers were really cool but it lacked all the infrastructure features we relied on to run in enterprise environments. Yet, … Explore: The Rise of the VMWare Platform Reliability Engineer
If you have worked with VxRail as long as I have then you know it is inevitable to relocate a host from one cluster to another to support other projects. Also, it is likely you’ve had a couple hosts laying around in the datacenter awaiting install. I thought I would put together this quick how … Explore: Discover & Add DellEMC VxRail Host into Existing…
As an Architect one thing you are constantly hit with is capacity planning, migration planning, and cost savings meetings. I am sure anyone reading this article has been sitting in their office and someone ask, “Hey could you run some quick estimate numbers on what X would cost if we performed Y?” This article is … Explore: VMWare vRealize Operations: Migration Planning
Have you ever needed a quick way to discover any and all virtual machines in your environment that have a mounted ISO? An example of this would be you are going to be performing an ESXi or VXRail upgrade and need the ability to migrate VMs from one host to another as part of maintenance … Explore: VMWare vRealize Operations: Create Custom View and Report…
As I’m sure many of you are aware VxRail Manager is only responsible for the virtual distributed switch it creates at install. What about any additional vDS that you create? You are 100% responsible for their upgrade and management. It doesn’t sound so bad right? How often do we actually interact with a vDS? Here … Explore: Post RASR Reset of VxRail 4.7 Host Re-Add…
This article is intended to leverage vROPs to help in resource planning meetings and possibly allow you to reclaim idle resources.
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