We recently had a case where a customers IS team who use VMware vCenter Protect to patch Microsoft servers with both Microsoft and 3rd-party patches had issues with Microsoft Update offering other admins updates to install during business … Read this post »
I know this is fairly well publicised, but having found it wasn’t the easiest of documentation to find, and even found many results just resulted in “it can’t be done” type answers/summaries I thought I’d pat myself on the back … Read this post »
VMware Blog – 11 September 2011: The new vCloud Suite 5.1 and vSphere 5.1 products announced just two weeks ago at VMworld are now available for download. With these new releases, VMware customers can build even more agile, efficient and … Read this post »
The new update for VMware vCenter Protect™ (version 8.0.1)has new features and minor bug fixes; since the original product Shavlik was acquired by VMware many impressive additions and improvements have been made to the product.… Read this post »
George Gerchow – Director, VMware Center for Policy & Compliance – 6 June 2012: CP&C is pleased to announce the most anticipated content release to date in vCM, the VMware vSphere 5.0 hardening guidelines! As critical component of the vC … Read this post »
George Gerchow – Director, VMware Center for Policy & Compliance – 9 May 2012: As VMware continues to build Trusted Cloud solutions that help customers migrate tier one applications to our Cloud Infrastructure Suite (CIS), the Center for Policy & … Read this post »
George Gerchow – Director, VMware Center for Policy & Compliance – 10 April 2012: Today we are going to give you access to two FREE downloadable tools that help you get started on the journey to achieving PCI 2.0 Compliance.… Read this post »
Would you know when you current system resources are going to run out? Do you know how your system would cope if you added another 60 VM’s? Have you over-provisioned your resources and could your system perform efficiently with less … Read this post »
In November 2012, Shavlik, a VMware Company, will End-of-Life versions 7.5, 7.6 and 7.8 by disabling the ability to update the XML data and so all customers are advised to upgrade to the latest version which can be found here… Read this post »
I have been using vCOPS for the last 5 months and lately there have been an issue where each badges where not being populated and the values were being shown as unknown. All the configurations and settings looked fine and was … Read this post »
We’ve all heard the expression “it’s like finding a needle in a haystack” or “hindsights a wonderful thing”. Well how much easier would it be if someone removed that haystack? Or replaced your hindsight with foresight? VMware has done just … Read this post »
This has been one of my biggest complaint with vCOPS where the timeout on the vCOPS UI is very small. Finally, found a way to fix this issue from the VMware forums to increase the timeout.VMware vCenter Protect Essentials, April 26, 2012: XML data version = 2.0.0.1784 Last modified on 26/04/2012.… Read this post »
David Davis, VMware – 30 March 2012: If you aren’t too familiar with vCloud Director, here are 5 things that you should know:… Read this post »
I’ve spent quite some time with vCOPS 5 and have been facing a few questions regarding how a few values corresponding to a badge are derived. I am writing this blog based upon documentation provided by VMware and my time … Read this post »
Over the past 12 months, VMware has added a number of exciting products to their already impressive portfolio which seek to free end users and IT organisations from more than two decades of complex, device-centric computing and deliver a more … Read this post »
One of the attractive features in vCOPS is the ability to configure adapters and pull information from a desired resource and show it in the vCOPS interface. It is a component that connects to and collects data from a designated … Read this post »
I’ve been playing with VMware vCenter Operations management suite for a few days and first impression are that its slick, neat and intuitive. It visualises all the information in one place so you can quickly understand what the vCenter is … Read this post »
Microsoft has released 7 new security bulletins. VMware is currently testing these patches and will release updated XML files shortly.… Read this post »
Satisnet Ltd are pleased to announce today that it has been awarded Enterprise-Level Partnership with VMware, the global leader in virtualisation and cloud infrastructure.… Read this post »