One of the use cases for VMware Cloud on AWS is extending your data center and taking advantage of hybrid cloud functionality. Configuring Hybrid Linked Mode (HLM), similar to Enhanced Linked Mode (ELM) on-premises, is an essential step and deploying the vCenter Cloud Gateway gives you some additional flexibility. HLM allows you to bring together…
vSphere 6.7 General Availability
As many of you know, yesterday, vSphere 6.7 was released. There are some awesome updates, and while this isn’t an all-encompassing list of features, I wanted to round up the ones I felt were the most important (especially to my customers). First and foremost, it should be noted that you cannot upgrade from vSphere 5.5…
VCSA: Consolidating SSO Domains and Ensuring a Successful Migration
The vCenter Server Appliance is all the rage right now. No, it’s not a fad, in fact if you want to make sure you can take advantage of all the latest cool features, you should make the jump. The days of Windows and MS SQL are over, at least as far as vSphere management is…
Building a Nested ESXi Lab For Your Company
Let’s face it, most companies don’t have Labs for you to learn new software and operating systems, let alone test upgrades and changes to your existing environments. If you do have some sort of lab, it’s probably hand me down gear that’s in shambles with so many problems you can’t remotely attempt to mimic anything…