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A Quick Look at Windows Volume Protection in Rubrik CDM4.2
When Rubrik launched in 2014 with version 1 of the product, it focused on Protecting VMware vSphere workloads. It was able to protect a VMs VMDKs and index the data therein, therefore making the files...
View ArticleRubrik, Inc. - My First Month
So, more than a month has passed since I've joined Rubrik on the 2nd of January 2018. Those who know me would know that before moving to Rubrik, I worked for Computercenter for nine years. So what's it...
View ArticlevRA7 EBS Times Out Even When Workflows Succeed
We had an issue today where the vRealize Automation (vRA) 7 Event Broker Service (EBS) would time out. The timeouts would happen intermittently, during different stages of the provisioning lifecycle....
View ArticleTime For A Change. A New Adventure!
I've been with Computacenter now for 8 and a half years, during which time I have been privileged to have worked with many talented people and for many wonderful customers. However, every good thing...
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Guide: From Start to Finish - Coding with the vRA Plugin in vRO Using Custom...
Custom properties in VMware vRealize Automation (vRA) provide us with the ability to set data on vRA objects and to change configurations that affect the behaviour of objects in vRA. For example, when...
View ArticlevRO Plugin Development - Getting Maven to Work!
I have been dabbling in the world of vRO plugin development. Yes, I know, vRO is a product that doesn't get much love from the VMware community, and I do not think that is fair. People seem to have...
View ArticleCloud - Synonyms Define a Lack of Clarity?
Last night I was searching for a domain name for a new personal project that I would like to kick off. Personally, I don't find searching for a new domain name a fun thing to do. I wanted to see if I...
View ArticleWith No Apology - Stop with the BS!
This blog post has the potential to be a very controversial. I'm sure there will be many in the IT industry who will want to protest against a post like this, but there will also be others who would...
View ArticlevRetreat Day - Zerto!
Following on from my original vRetreat blog post, I thought it would make sense to report on some of the technical IT discussions that happened on the day, For this blog post, I am going to be focusing...
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vRetreat Day, Porsche Experience Centre, Silverstone, UK
I was honoured to have been invited to attend the inaugural vRetreat event in the UK. The event, arranged by Red-Track Ltd, took place at the Porsche Experience Centre at Silverstone on 27 January...
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vSphere 6.5 - External PSC Upgrade Issue
So with vSphere 6.5 now GA, I decided to upgrade my lab to vSphere 6.5. In my environment, I use a vCenter with an external Platform Services Controller (PSC). So as part of the upgrade, I have to...
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VMware Cloud on AWS - What about the Processor Vendor / Arch? Answers on a...
So during the keynote at VMworld in Barcelona on Tuesday morning, 18 October 2016, VMware showed a demo of how a VMware Cloud infrastructure is stood up in AWS and following that, showed how a virtual...
View ArticleGetting my head around Containers: vSphere Integrated Containers, Docker &...
Container technology has been around for quite a while now. Most people would by now have heard about Docker, and a lot of people are using Docker. What about VMware Photon? What’s that? Well again,...
View ArticleTwo Methods to Select a vRA Reservation Policy at Request Time with vRO
In the last 6 months, I've done quite a bit of vRA6, 7 and vRO. During this time, I've had to learn quite a bit about both products, and how they interact with each other and with other REST based...
View ArticlevRO: vRA7 Catalog Item Provisioning Requests, JSON and Referencing Properties
In VMware vRealize Automation 7 (vRA), blueprints are converged, rather than the single vs. multi machine blueprints that we were used to in vRA6. This presents an interesting challenge when requesting...
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Removing Obsolete Cipher Suites from vRealize Hyperic
So, you've done all the hard work to change your Hyperic Server certificate (or not). Now you browse to your Hyperic server's management page via HTTPS on port 7443 and you're presented with this...
View ArticleReplacing Hyperic 5.8.4 Server SSL Certificates
I've been working intensively with the VMware vRealize product suite over that past 4 months, including Hyperic. One of the things we have to do on our current project is to replace the Hyperic server...
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KEMP Makes Available a Free LoadMaster Edition
I’ve recently published a whitepaper on KEMP Technologies’ range of commercial "LoadMaster" load balancer products that can be found via this post. Now KEMP has introduced a free version to their...
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Log Insight 2.5 - The worker node sending this alert was unable to contact...
I have identified an issue in Log Insight 2.5 where alerts passed via email or to vROPS contain the following text in the message: “Notification event – The worker node sending this alert was unable...
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VMware vRealize Operations 6.1, Gemfire Out, Cassandra and Hyperic In!
I don't normally blog about new product releases. Although I have done so in the past, I somewhat feel that those interested in what a new release of a product has to offer are probably better off...
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