Hi, all, short blog post today to inform you of some new community content. Logging is a pretty important thing these days (well, almost all days), and being able to implement that into your CMP is equally as important. VMware's Log Insight solution is a fantastic platform for aggregating, analyzing, and searching for …

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Logging is an extremely important and, in some cases, essential part of a successful data center. That’s why you use a tool like Log Insight to aggregate, query, and alert on them. There are a variety of reasons why having your systems report their logs are crucial. They could be things like compliance: you are bound …

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I wrote last about attending VeeamON 2017 in New Orleans and you can view that here. As I was deep in various sessions or talking with peers and Veeam folks, several things stuck out in my mind as current gaps or “nice-to-haves” when it comes to Veeam. So after putting pen to paper, I identified four things I thought …

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I had the chance to attend VeeamON this year for the first time, which took place at the convention center in New Orleans from May 16–18. This three-day event was as much about the new product announcements, which we’ll get to in a minute, as well as expert technical deep dive sessions and networking. There were around …

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vRealize Automation 7.2 was released in late November with the much-heralded release of container support. You can read about it in the official announcement blog here and a post from Jad here, but other features also accompanied containers including support for Azure, ServiceNow integration, and others. Since …

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This article is the third in a series of three which explore the vRealize Automation guest agent in depth. For the others, please see these links. Part 1: Adding machine requestor to local administrators group in vRA 7 Part 2: Running in-guest scripts on Windows VMs in vRA 7 Part 3: Running Bash commands in the Linux …

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This article is the second in a series of three which explore the vRealize Automation guest agent in depth. For the others, please see these links. Part 1: Adding machine requestor to local administrators group in vRA 7 Part 2: Running in-guest scripts on Windows VMs in vRA 7 Part 3: Running Bash commands in the Linux …

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Docker is a topic that seems all the rage today, and people and organizations are scrambling to understand the technology in order to power their next-generation apps with methodologies such as continuous delivery and micro-services. In order to make standing up Docker easier for those with vRealize Automation, I’ve …

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This article is the first in a series of three which explore the vRealize Automation guest agent in depth. For the others, please see these links. Part 1: Adding machine requestor to local administrators group in vRA 7 Part 2: Running in-guest scripts on Windows VMs in vRA 7 Part 3: Running Bash commands in the Linux …

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With the much-heralded release of Microsoft’s PowerShell, VMware’s PowerCLI Core in fling format was released on October 17th. This allows users of Mac and Linux to run PowerShell just like on Windows. While PowerCLI can be installed with instructions on the fling website, VMware also released a Docker container with …

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