Tag: VMware

VMware Cloud Foundation and vSAN ESA (no internet connection)

I was doing at installation of VMware Cloud Foundation at a customer. This installation does not have any internet connection, Which is something that I see as a growing requirement for VMware Infrastructure at customer. This installation was with VMware Cloud foundation 5.1, and customer had purchased some vSAN ESA Ready nodes for the installation…

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By Allan Kjaer March 15, 2024 0

VMware vSphere 8.0 Update 2b Released

VMware by Broadcom has released vSphere 8.0 Update 2b, ESXi 8.0.2b, vCenter 8.0.2b, vSphere Replication 8.8.0.3 . This fixes the CBT bug and many other problems. I think this also introduces support for the new license model. There is nothing in the release notes about this. vCenter 8.0.2b What’s new: See the full release notes…

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By Allan Kjaer March 2, 2024 0

VMware VCF and Holodeck 2.0

VMware has a way you deploy a full VCF environment on a single host as nested environment, the current version deploys a VCF 5.0 enviroment. I was playing around with this and after deploying this I was doing as I would normally do, I shutdown the Cloud Builder VM after this, the environment did not…

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By Allan Kjaer February 27, 2024 0

Aria Suite version 8.16/8.16.1 Released

VMware by Broadcom has released Aria Automation 8.16.1, Aria Operations 8.16, Aria Operations for Logs 8.16 and Aria Suite Lifecycle 8.16. VMware Aria Operations for Networks 6.12.1 is also released, this has only a update to Eval license. NOTE February 23th 2024: the Aria Automation/Aria Automation Config/Aria Automation Orchestrator 8.16.1 has been removed from the…

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By Allan Kjaer February 21, 2024 0

VMware VCF Planning and Preparation Workbook

I am working on doing some sizing of a VMware VCF environment for at customer and wanted to use the VCF Planning and Preparation Workbook and of course I downloaded the lates version for the version 5.1 from the documentation home page here: This resulted in getting the version 1.5.1.002, there are a few problems…

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By Allan Kjaer February 14, 2024 0

VMware Aria Automation Orchstrator API Authentication

I was looking into how to run a workflow from PowerShell, and found the documentation a little confusing if you are using VMware vCenter SSO authentication. In the documentation for VMware vCenter documentation looks like this. There are little or no documentation for how to create a “holder-of-key (HoK) token)” i found 1 community thread…

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By Allan Kjaer December 5, 2023 0

VMware Aria Suite 8.14.1 Released

VMware has released Aria Automation 8.14.1, Aria Automation Config 8.14.1, Aria Automation Orchestrator 8.14.1, Aria Operations 8.14.1 and Aria Operations for logs 8.14.1. Aria Automation 8.14.1, Aria Automation Config 8.14.1, Aria Automation Orchestrator 8.14.1 NOTE: If you are using the IPAM plug-in for InfoBlox you need to update to version 1.5.1, before updating Aria Automation,…

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By Allan Kjaer November 28, 2023 0

VMware Cloud Foundation 5.1 Released

VMware has released VMware Cloud Foundation 5.1, this version features some major new features and enhancements. This version has support for the new VMware vSAN ESA and vSAN Max. It is also the backbone of the future VMware Private Generative AI, for now this is only guided for installing the product at the moment, so…

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By Allan Kjaer November 10, 2023 0

VMware Aria Suite 8.14 Released

VMware has released Aria Automation 8.14, Aria Automation Config 8.14, Aria Automation Orchestrator 8.14, Aria Operations 8.14, Aria Operations for Logs 8.14 and Aria Suite Lifecycle 8.14. There are some really exciting new features with this releases. Aria Automation 8.14, Aria Automation Config 8.14, Aria Automation Orchestrator 8.14 With the Aria Automation 8.14 there are…

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By Allan Kjaer October 20, 2023 0