Unveiling Project Clarity
Unveiling Project Clarity – VMware CTO Blog Unveiling Project Clarity – VMware CTO Blog Today we’re ecstatic to announce Project Clarity, a design system that combines UX guidelines, patterns, and...
View ArticleRelease Announcement – vRealize Orchestrator 6.0.5
Whew the last few days have been full of new releases and VMware is not done yet. I’m not going to spoil anything but I will tell you that the release of vRealize Orchestrator 6.0.5 is not the last...
View ArticleRelease Announcement – vRealize Automation 6.2.5
Still running vRA 6.x, then you will be happy to hear vRA 6.2.5 is now GA and boast some great performance improvements. See blow for more details. GA Date:11/17/16 What’s new? Enhancements Hotfix...
View ArticleRelease Announcement – vRealize Automation vRA 7.2
While I was away on vacation last week it seems VMware had another exciting round of releasing starting with the Release of vRA 7.2. Probably the most anticipated feature is the new Azure Endpoint....
View ArticleRelease Announcement – vRealize Business for Cloud 7.2
As you may have guessed along with the release of vRA 7.2 VMware also release vRealize Business for Cloud 7.2. What’s New in this release? Enhanced support for AWS via AWS Cloud Watch API Integration...
View ArticleRelease Announcement – vRealize Cloud Client 4.3
vRealize CloudClient 4.3 What’s new? Support for the vRealize Automation 7.2 capability to assign all users of a business group to an entitlement or to delete an inactive entitlement. The new vra...
View ArticlePut away the computer and take a relaxing trip
I have been so busy I haven’t had time to put any articles together in quiet some time. I know many if not all of you have the same issue. Never enough time in a day to do all the things you need to...
View ArticleSovLabs – Solutions for VMware vRealize Automation
If you have been to the VMware Solutions Exchange you most certainly have seen the name SovLabs. Although their solutions are regularly called plug-ins, I assure you they offer more than just...
View ArticlevRA – vRealize Automation and ServiceNow Integration
Some of you may have attended the vRA and ServiceNow presentation at VMworld 2017 yesterday. I regret not being able to attend and present it myself, however I’m certain that Chris Smith and Ian...
View ArticleInstalling the SovLabs vRO plugin for vRealize Automation 7.3
Many of you are looking to kick the tires on the SovLabs vRO plugins for vRA 7.3, but don’t know where to begin. If that’s you, then you are in luck. In this article I’m going to walk you through...
View ArticleUsing the vRA Cloud Client to export and import blueprints
There are lots of reasons to want to export and import blueprints from one vRA instance to another. My current motives are to move blueprints from my vRA 7.2 environment to my newly deployed vRA 7.3...
View ArticlevRA 7.3–Installing and configuring vRA plugin for ITSM–ServiceNow–Part 1
It seems like everyone these days wants to use ServiceNow as their catalog for vRA. It use to be that everyone just wanted to create or update CI records. Before I get into the weeds on how to get...
View ArticlevRA 7.3 – Installing and configuring vRA plugin for ITSM – ServiceNow – Part 2
If you haven’t read Part 1 of this article you will want to go back and read it before you proceed. In part 2 we will build on the installation that we performed in part 1. Let’s just dig right in and...
View ArticlevRA 7.3 – Configuring the SovLabs Plugin
In my previous article about the SovLabs plugin I covered some pre-requisites and sent you over to the SovLabs documentation to finish the installation. Once you have installed the vRO plugin using...
View ArticlevRA 7.3 – Configuring SovLabs Custom Naming Module
Many of you have utilized the Custom Hostname module that has been made available by Tom Bonanno here on Dailyhypervisor. Those that use have probably noticed that it is no longer maintained. This is...
View ArticleHello Amazon Lightsail, Good by 1&1 dedicated server
Many of you may have heard about Amazon’s latest product named Lightsail. This service is designed to competed with shared hosting providers. A few years back I moved my websites from shared hosting,...
View ArticleThe road to automation with VMware vRA
I think we need to take a few steps back and focus on vRA architecture and design. I’ve had many questions, requests, and discussions with some of my readers on this topic. Implementing vRA can lead...
View ArticleRoad to Automation with VMware vRA – GSS Company Profile
In my previous article The Road to automation with VMware vRA I discussed I would be published a company profile for my fictitious company GSS. In this article we will be digging into GSS to take a...
View ArticleRoad to Automation with VMware vRA – vRA Design Part 1
GSS has decided on a number of design considerations for their vRA implementation. GSS is currently using a consumption based model for their resource allocation. They don’t pre-reserve any amount of...
View ArticleBedtime story – A tale of two vRA admins
My six-year-old asked me to tell him a bedtime story and it went something like this. Jimmy and Tommy are both vRA admins. Jimmy works for a large financial company and Tommy works for a large company...
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