Here is another small nuggetized video. In this video I will show how to create email alerts and a SMTP instance in vROps 6.5. Let me know if you find it...
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Been working on some Monitoring and Logging stuff at work so decided to share a little bit more. Here is one of the videos I felt might help a few people. Now this is just a small portion of what can actually be done with vROps 6.5 and of course 6.6 but with the basics...
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For those that would rather watch a video otherwise, scroll past:
Welcome to the walkthrough of the Log Insight UI
So, Log Insight is installed – what's next? How do you use it? First, you'll need to have an understanding of the UI and where...
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Experimenting a bit with how I do some of my blogging. I am still going to use this site (obviously) but thought it would be nice if I could include a bit more video and demos. As kind of a teaser to that effect, I am putting a few teaser videos of demos up here I did...
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It has been a remarkably long time since my last post, and I apologize for that. Things got in the way…Such as my own laziness, job, laziness. You get the idea.
This blog post was conceived because of the lack of posts out there for this. Granted I may just be dense...
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So I have skipped a few sections dealing with troubleshooting. I may circle back around and get to them if I can but I am shooting to try to get all the other stuff done. Besides, I am sure if you have gotten this far – you have had at least a couple problems and...
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Welcome back to another version of Mike's VMware show! Up for today, we are going to discuss Backups and Replication. In specific, the topics we are going to cover are:
Identify snapshot requirements
Identify VMware Data Protection...
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Back again with a new objective. This time we are going to go over Resource Pools. Over the course of the blog post we will cover the following points.
Describe the Resource Pool hierarchy
Define the Expandable Reservation parameter
Describe vFlash...
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To wrap up upgrade processes and things, we are going to go over vCenter Upgrades. The following points will be covered:
Identify steps required to upgrade a vSphere implementation
Identify upgrade requirements for vCenter
Upgrade vCenter Server...
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Here we are again, starting Objective 4.1. The following points will be covered:
Identify upgrade requirements for ESXi hosts
Upgrade a vSphere Distributed Switch
Upgrade Virtual Machine hardware
Upgrade an ESXi host using vCenter Update Manager
Stage...
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