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VMware has been working hard to add new features to vRealize Operations (vROps), the management tool is unrecognisable from it’s origins as vCops… One of the most overlooked areas for me is compliance. It is very powerful and easy to setup.

In VMware Cloud Director 10.3 VMware changed from using the Java keystore to a direct import/management with the cell-management-tool. This is a reminder to myself for the steps involved to change the certificate on a VMware Cloud Director cell.

The starting situation explained: we have a VMware cloud director instance with three cell servers. On primary and two standby cells, from a database replication perspective. Cells were running on version 10.2.0 and I wanted to upgrade vCD to the latest version which is 10.3.2a.

Good news we have a new version on VMConAWS - m16 is here!

VMware HCX error message when migrating a VM to VMConAWS, related to the virtual Hardware version.

Before you can deploy a SDDC in VMware Cloud on AWS we need to have either an existing AWS VPC or create a new one. This blog post will cover the creation of a custom VPC as well as a VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC.

My customer is currently migrating vSphere workloads to VMware Cloud on AWS.
There are many aspects and processes which are running in the background, this is the what, how, why of the migration from two on-premises datacenters to the cloud with HCX.

After updating Horizon View to 8.3, the Web browser access doesn't work anymore. Here's how to fix it.

Lately, I have been doing quite some work on VMware vSphere with Tanzu. A prerequisite to configure vSphere with Tanzu is a load balancer of some sort. Currently the following are supported, HAProxy, the NSX-T integrated load balancer or the NSX Advanced Load Balancer (ALB). (Support for the NSX ALB was added with the release of vSphere 7 U1.)

Some time ago I wrote an article about vRO 8.0 and first steps. Now with version 8.4 I decided to write a second article, checking if anything changed what I pointed out in my last article, or if there are some cool new features or new glimpses.

I recently had to upgrade two log insight instances for a customer from 4.x to 8.x. This was a manual process in two phases (you have to upgrade to 4.8 first).

Recently, I had to install an older version of vRealize Automation, being more precisely, version 8.0.1, which is still downloadable from the Homepage of VMware and is officially still supported. Why, that’s a different story.