Category: azure

New in vRealize Network Insight Cloud and vRealize Network Insight 6.4 for NSX-T 3.2
By: Date: 10/12/2021 Categories: azure

vRealize Network Insight Cloud is available as a SaaS or on-premises solution for end-to-end network visibility, troubleshooting, and analytics. It works closely with NSX-T 3.2. vRealize Network Insight Cloud also helps optimize multi-cloud network performance with troubleshooting capabilities for applications, virtual machines, physical servers, or Kubernetes. NSX Federation Customers use NSX Federation to scale across…

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DR and Migration Plan for VMware Cloud Director
By: Date: 01/12/2021 Categories: azure

VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.3 presents the DR and Migration Plans. This new feature will help Providers and their tenants define the exact steps to perform during failover or migration.  There is a new menu called Recovery Plans where both DR and Migration plans can be created. Even though tenants can also access this menu, it is not available…

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Deploy Azure Kubernetes Services
By: Date: 30/11/2021 Categories: azure Tags:

Azure Kubernetes Service is a managed Kubernetes cluster in Azure, Users are only required to manage and maintain agent nodes. Features Include in AKS. Advanced Networking Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Identity and Security Management Container health logs and monitoring GPU-enabled nodes AKS Terminology Pools are groups of nodes with identical configurations.Nodes are individual virtual…

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Deep dive into OSE 2.1 Kubernetes Backup & Restore
By: Date: 01/11/2021 Categories: azure

We are delighted to announce that OSE 2.1 is now available and offers many new features and enhancements to start immediately benefitting from. The plethora of the OSE 2.1 new capabilities span from global bucket sync policy applied to a single or multi-site tenants, through the app and subordinate user role customization to Kubernetes backup…

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Monitor your networks using Azure Network Watcher
By: Date: 31/10/2021 Categories: azure Tags:

Azure Network Watcher is a regional service that enables you to monitor and diagnose conditions at a network scenario level in, to, and from Azure. Scenario level monitoring enables you to diagnose problems at an end-to-end network level view. Network diagnostic and visualization tools available with Network Watcher help you understand, diagnose, and gain insights…

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Integrate your App Service with Azure virtual networks
By: Date: 28/10/2021 Categories: azure Tags:

Virtual network integration for Azure servicesIntegrating Azure services to an Azure virtual network enables private access to the service from virtualmachines or compute resources in the virtual network. You can integrate Azure services in your virtualnetwork with the following options:● Deploying dedicated instances of the service into a virtual network. The services can then be…

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vSphere Lifecycle Manager UI – what’s new in vSphere 7.0 update releases
By: Date: 27/10/2021 Categories: azure

Since its introduction in vSphere 7.0.GA, vSphere Lifecycle Manager (VLCM) User Interface for vSphere Client (HTML-based) was gradually improved through subsequent update releases. Let’s see some of the features that have been added since it was released. Importing image from a host while creating a cluster, you can now choose an ESXi host to extract the…

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Pods fail to attach or detach volumes
By: Date: 26/10/2021 Categories: azure

When using the vSphere CSI driver in a multi cluster Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition (TKGI) environment, pods start failing to attach or detach volumes.  Cause The vSphere CSI driver uses the cluster-id for the volume create spec. If there are multiple kubernetes clusters in the same vSphere using the same cluster-id, each time one of…

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vRealize Automation Learn Sites
By: Date: 25/10/2021 Categories: azure

New learn sites that focus on each of the services in vRealize Automation, all accessible from the Learn vRealize Automation portal: Learn vRealize Automation Learn Cloud Assembly Learn Code Stream Learn Service Broker Learn SaltStack Config Learn Orchestrator These new developer-focussed sites aim to provide in-depth resources as a living technical reference for each service,…

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Creating Zone-redundant storage for managed disks
By: Date: 24/10/2021 Categories: azure Tags:

Zone-redundant storage replicates your data across three storage clusters in a region. Each cluster is physically separated from the other two, which means that each cluster is supplied by separate utilities, such as power or networking.If there’s an outage in a datacenter, you can still access your data from another availability zone in that region….

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VMware Cloud Director 10.3.1 Generally Available
By: Date: 22/10/2021 Categories: azure

Cloud Director continues to innovate and help Cloud Providers drive growth and relevance with their customers. 10.3.1 is no exception, with this release providing updates to Core, Networking and Tanzu services.  What’s new in Core? In 10.3.1 we have delivered a much more efficient method to backup and restore the Cloud Director appliance. A new…

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VMware 2021 VMworld keynote
By: Date: 12/10/2021 Categories: azure

Tanzu Community Edition (Tanzu Community Edition) VMware Tanzu Community Edition is a full-featured, easy-to-manage Kubernetes platform for learners and users VMware SASE VMware CASB VMware Cloud Director 10.3 release (Not unique for VMworld, but still fairly new –> Just Released VMware Cloud Director 10.3 – Partner News ) VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Now Supports NVIDIA GPUs in Amazon Web…

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Planning & Preparation for Site Protection and Disaster Recovery with VMware Cloud Foundation
By: Date: 10/10/2021 Categories: azure

Enabling Site Protection The Site Protection and Disaster Recovery Solution is enabled with a new drop-down option found in the VMware Cloud Foundation Planning and Preparation Workbook. This new drop-down provides you several options: Exclude: If you don’t want this VCF instance to participate in any Site Protection and Disaster Recovery relationship with another instance…

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Announcement of Azure VMware Solution support for VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer #VMwareNSX #azure
By: Date: 10/10/2021 Categories: azure

With NSX Advanced Load Balancer (NSX ALB), enterprise-class applications with local load balancing, global server load balancing (GSLB), and Web Application Firewall (WAF) for workloads running on Azure VMware Solution. You can deploy the delivery service. As your data center grows or migrates from on-premises to Azure VMware Solution, NSX ALB’s full-featured load balancer enables customers…

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How to configure vCloud Usage Meter 4.4 LDAP Authentication #VMware
By: Date: 10/10/2021 Categories: azure

PurposeThe following information provides a sample configuration on how to get an LDAP setup with Usage Meter.  Resolution Pre-requisites: A configured LDAP server. Procedure Below is the sample configuration of a user LDAP authentication with Usage Meter. Replace the contents of /ec/nslcd.conf with information from your environment. See the example below: root@photon-machine [ /etc ]# cat /etc/nslcd.conf…

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New VMware Cloud Ready Framework (VMCRF)
By: Date: 12/09/2021 Categories: azure

To start, we are releasing the first of the five VMCRF pillars, Plan. This pillar provides the necessary guidance to help organizations start preparing for their transformative initiative.  which also includes the VMware Cloud Infrastructure Service providers: VMware Cloud on AWS Azure VMware Solution Google Cloud VMware Engine Oracle Cloud VMware Solution The Plan pillar…

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Upgrading applications using Helm
By: Date: 05/09/2021 Categories: azure Tags:

Custom Themes I will explain how to perform upgrades using Helm operators Run the following command: helm install wp bitnami/wordpress You will force an update of the image of the MariaDB container. Let’s first check the version of the current image: kubectl describe statefulset wp-mariadb | grep Image Getting the current image of the StatefulSet…

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Azure Key vault can’t access
By: Date: 17/08/2021 Categories: azure Tags:

Problem Statement: As a tenant administrator you can’t inspect KeyVault contents created by other people (“you are unauthorized to view these contents”). Solution: You can assign appropriate permission in access policies. Go to Azure portal>Key vaults>Settings>Access Policies Click “Add Access plocies” Key permissions: Select all under “Key Management Operations” and “Cryptographic Operations” Select yourself as…

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Azure App Service on Linux
By: Date: 16/08/2021 Categories: azure Tags: ,

App Service on Linux to host web apps natively on Linux for supported application stacks. To view the latest languages and supported versions Run az webapp list-runtimes –linux Currently supported featuresLimitationsTroubleshoot performance issuesContinuous deployment to Azure App Service Currently supported features Deployments FTP Local Git GitHub Bitbucket Languages and frameworks Node.js Java PHP Python .NET…

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Kubernetes Nodepools Explained
By: Date: 13/08/2021 Categories: azure Tags:

Introduction This article will explain and show the use cases for using Nodepools in Kubernetes: Describe nodepools. System and user nodepools: what are they? How can I use Labels and nodeSelector to schedule application pods on a particular nodepool? How can Taints and Tolerations be used to schedule only certain application pods on a nodepool?…

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How to set Azure blob for Immutable storage
By: Date: 01/08/2021 Categories: azure Tags: ,

Immutable storage for Azure blob that enables users to store business-critical data in a WORM (Write Once, Read Many) state. Immutable storage supports two types of policies:Time-based retention Legal holdSelect from Azure PortalTime-based retention Immutable storage supports two types of policies: Time-based retention Time-based retention allows users to add policies and store data for a…

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