Check out my guest post at the itq website Where I talk all about the latest annoucements of #VMware and how #VMware is taking some serious steps in creating a #HybridCloudPlatform that embraces multiple platforms while giving the control back to business and IT. Find out how #vROps8, hashtag#vRA8 & hashtag#vRO8 is helping businesses with#operations, #automation & #orchestration, and how VMware’s …read more →
Check out my guest post at the itq website Where I talk all about the latest annoucements of #VMware and how they are taking some big steps in creating a #HybridCloudPlatform that embraces multiple platforms. Find out how #vROps8 & #Wavefront is helping businesses with Cost & Capacity Management in a multi cloud world. https://itq.nl/vmworld-usa-2019-vmware-is-going-next-level-in-the-digital-transformation-part-1/ Samir …read more →
Intro We covered quite some topics in the previous blogposts. We talked about how important the assessment phase is, which Technical & Common vSphere Challenges you could expect, and what the consequences are of certain choices and methods. We also talked about how you can define the “Ist”, and how it is a big part …read more →
Intro VMware its product portfolio has grown immensely in the last several years. Most VMware products are designed to integrate & enhance each other but also to be compatible with one and another. However, it has become difficult to keep track of which versions of all the products are compatible and supported with each other. …read more →
Intro Upgrading and maintaining a vSphere environment is a broad topic that also can be difficult. As you probably have noticed already in the blogpost series, there are numerous ways of doing a vSphere upgrade, and each has its own benefits, drawbacks but also consequences. That’s why I’m so focused in this blogpost series on …read more →
Final Conclusion Like I said in the beginning of the blogpost series, Life Cycle & Patch Management is a difficult topic. Which can become a big headache when there are so many dependencies within the environment, especially if it hasn’t been maintained for a while. The bigger the Jump, the more difficult it gets. Therefore, …read more →
Intro We’ve viewed the different tools that help to manage a HPE stack and if and how we could integrate VUM with this. We also discussed that consistency with virtualization & infrastructure is one of the most important things for having reliable operations, and that you need some sort of reporting tool that can give …read more →
Intro We’ve viewed the different tools that help to manage a HPE stack and if and how we could integrate VUM with this. During the project and our research, we found out that it is really difficult to see if the VIBs that are being deployed, are consistent with all the ESXi hosts of the …read more →
Intro Life Cycle & Patch Management, can be achieved with different tools and methods with HPE and VMware. However, the number of available tools that can be used for LCM, can make it quite confusing of how and when these tools should be used. Especially when you install the CIM agent on the ESXi host, …read more →
Intro Life Cycle & Patch Management within organizations can be a difficult topic. Mostly because of the broad set of software and hardware that can and should be included in a Life Cycle & Patch Management strategy. Still, due to the constantly changing landscape within the IT, this becomes more and more important. Security breaches …read more →
