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VCAP6 exams retiring in September 2018

If you're looking at taking one of the VMware Advanced Professional exams listed below, you might want to get your skates on as they're being retired at the end of September: * VCAP6 – Data Centre Virtualization Design (VCAP6-DCV Design) * VCAP6 – Cloud Management and Automation Design (VCAP6-CMA Design) * VCAP6 – Desktop and Mobility

education

Extensibility course in vRA / vRO (Feb 2018)

A new vRA / vRO Extensibility course is scheduled to be held in the UK in February 2018. It will provide detailed information on how to leverage the power of vRealize Automation and vRealize Orchestrator. I should point out that it's a beta course, so it may not be 100% polished

HomeLab

Root password expired on vCenter VCSA 6.5

I thought I'd update my homelab's primary vCenter to the latest and greatest (6.5 update 1d), when I encountered an issue with the root password. The update showed up ok in the appliance's VAMI interface and I selected to install it but an error quickly showed up: [/content/images/

CTOA

New Year, New CTOA - Congratulations

[/content/images/wordpress/2018/01/CTO-Ambassadors_avatar_1461093858-96x96.jpeg] VMware's Office of the CTO (OCTO) [https://octo.vmware.com] runs an annual programme internally to appoint a limited number of outstanding individuals as CTO Ambassadors (CTOA). Broadly, the role of an ambassador is to help ensure a tight collaboration between

SWUKVMUG

South West UK VMUG - 22nd February 2017

I was absent from the VMUG scene for the entirety of 2016 for a number of reasons. I'm determined to make amends this year and I'm jumping in at the deep end! A week from today is the first South West UK VMUG for 2017 and I'm going to be

2017

VMworld 2017 - Call for papers is open!

VMware have a gift for you this Valentine's day. VMworld 2017 call for papers is open today! [https://www.vmworld.com/en/call-for-papers.html] This year, VMworld US and VMworld Europe are closer together. Only two weeks separate the two events. I'm interested to see how that changes the makeup

Automation

New vRO and PowerCLI Automation Training

A lot of the projects that I work on have an element of automation to them and I've been asked a few times by customers if there is a training course available that will help them get started in understanding vRO and VMware's PowerCLI cmdlets and how they can be

certificate

Howto: Creating a CA template for VMware services

Having setup my lab's PKI infrastructure previously, one of the next steps I needed to complete was to create a template for certificates for VMware's products to use as they require certain properties to be present in the certificates used. There is a KB article [https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/

esxtop

ESXTOP Overview Poster for vSphere 6

Whilst I was googling for ESXTOP the other day (I had a lab issue), I saw an interesting link that I thought I'd share. Andreas Lesslhumer, a fellow vExpert from Austria, has created an A3 sized poster that tells you pretty much everything you could ever want to know about

Cloud

Open roles in the Northern EMEA PSO team at VMware

I may only be in my third week working for VMware PSO, but I'm enjoying it. If you have experience of delivering high quality virtualisation and cloud projects then you might be interested in applying for one of the open roles on LinkedIn at present. In the UK: * PSO Consulting

jobs

...Hello VMware!

I've been a user of VMware's products since finding VMware Workstation in the early noughties but things really took off for me in 2007 with ESX3. I've long thought that I might work for VMware one day if the circumstances were right. As of yesterday, it became a reality. This

vCO

vRealize Automation 6.2 is GA

Ladies and gentlemen, start your downloads! vRealize Automation 6.2 (formerly known as vCloud Automation Center) has gone GA today. Beside the usual raft of fixes, the major focus for this release is the integration with vRealize Operations 6.0 (formerly known as vCenter Operations Manager). Download VMware vRealize Automation

vgiveback

Thank you VMworld... see you next year?

As always, the highlight of any VMworld for me is the interaction with other attendees. Meeting new people, discussing technology and ideas with old friends and new is what makes it great for me. Also great was that over €143,000 will be donated to charities by VMware as a

Automation

VMworld 2014 - Day 2

Day 2 can often get off to a sluggish start for many. Either from hitting the parties too hard the night before, or misjudging the time required to get into the conference centre, there were still quite a few people arriving after Wednesday's keynote session had started. Keynote The keynote

atlantis

VMworld 2014 - Partner Day

VMworld Partner Day – I guess you could call it VMworld Day 0, or the “quiet before the storm”. That's not to say that it's an easy day mind you. Partner day for me is all about networking. Not the NSX / Cisco variety, but talking with and meeting people. From former

bytelife

VMworld Europe 2014 - Looking forward...

It's October now and it means that VMworld Europe 2014 is right around the corner. I'll be attending in Barcelona for what will be my 4th VMworld. It will be the first time that I've ever attended under a full conference pass rather than just as a blogger. However, I

Certification

VCP-NV: Getting Started

So, you’ve decided to take the VCP-NV exam that VMware launched just recently. If you haven’t been living and breathing VMware NSX for the past few months, you’re probably going to need to do some preparation so that you don’t waste the exam fee. Even if

Hybrid

vCHS in the UK

[https://blog.v12n.io/content/images/wordpress/2014/03/vCHS-in-the-UK1.png]I was fortunate and privileged recently to be invited to the UK launch event for VMware's vCloud Hybrid Service in the UK. The first of many planned deployments in the EMEA region for VMware. VMware’s vCloud Hybrid Service

partner

VMworld Europe 2013 - Partner Day

I have to confess to feeling a little jaded this morning thanks to the vRockstar party [http://www.vspecialist.co.uk/vmworld-vrockstar-party-2/] last night. I'm not complaining though, as I have been on the previous two occasions that I've attended VMworld Europe, I'm both excited and glad to be here.

nee

The End of the VMTN Saga?

If you don't know what VMTN is, you might be new to VMware virtualisation or the IT industry. Either way, I have an older post that covers it a bit [http://www.vspecialist.co.uk/vmtn-subscription-campaign/]. I posted it in November 2011 just as the campaign to get the VMTN

vExpert

Are you a vExpert?

VMware's vExpert award isn't something that you can study for. It's not something that you know, it's something that you are! This is the 5th year that VMware have operated the the programme (“program” for any US readers) and applications for the 2013 award are open now. If you've contributed

design

New Book - VMware vSphere Design (2nd Edition)

Forbes Guthrie and Scott Lowe have been busy. I very much enjoyed the first edition of the VMware vSphere Design book and now the second edition is up on Amazon [http://www.amazon.co.uk/VMware-VSphere-Design-Forbes-Guthrie/dp/1118407911/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1363726653&sr=8-1] for download

Blog

Vote For Your Top Virtualization Blogs

[http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1165270/Top-vBlog-2013]It's that time again. For the last few years Eric Siebert, over at vsphere-land.com [http://vsphere-land.com/news/voting-now-open-for-the-2013-top-vmware-virtualization-blogs.html] , has organised a vote giving you, the readers of virtualization blogs, the opportunity to decide which you think is the best. Jeremy

CTO

VMware - Changes At The Top

Following on from VMware CTO Steve Herrod's announcement that he is to leave his role [http://cto.vmware.com/transition-in-our-industry-and-for-me/], I joked on twitter that this was actually a response to the prospect of being accosted by Gregg Robertson and Darren Woollard at VMworld [http://www.vspecialist.co.uk/vmworld-europe-2012-day-1/

ESXi

Reset VM Stuck at 95%

I'm not convinced that this is supported, but it did work. As with anything on a blog, use at your own risk. I was working on rebuilding my home lab and wanted to clear down the host that my vCenter VM was sitting on. Before doing that I wanted to