I found a great article from William Lam about how to build an Photon OS virtual appliance which includes OVF settings for configuration. During my initial tests I faced some issues like the virtual machine network did not connect properly and others. First I had changed the existing scripts to work with the vmware-iso …
Read MoreSSH to the ESXi host and execute the following command: <br /> vsish -e cat /hardware/cpu/cpuList/0 | grep -i -E 'family|model|stepping|microcode|revision'<br /> Output: <br /> [root@esxi:~] vsish -e cat /hardware/cpu/cpuList/0 | grep -i -E 'family|model|stepping|microcode|revision'<br /> …
Read MoreSSH to the ESXi host and execute the following command: <br /> vmware -l<br /> Output: <br /> root@esxi:~] vmware -l<br /> VMware ESXi 6.7.0 Update 3<br /> [root@esxi:~]<br />
Read MoreSSH into the Skyline collector and execute the following command: <br /> grep version /usr/local/skyline/ccf/config/collector.properties<br /> Output: <br /> root@photon-machine [ ~ ]# grep version /usr/local/skyline/ccf/config/collector.properties<br /> collector.version=2.5.0.0<br /> …
Read MoreSSH into the vROPs machine and execute the following command. <br /> cat /etc/vmware/.buildInfo | grep RELEASENUMBER<br /> Output: <br /> root@vRealizeClusterNode [ ~ ]# cat /etc/vmware/.buildInfo | grep RELEASENUMBER<br /> RELEASENUMBER:8.1.0.15972145<br /> root@vRealizeClusterNode [ ~ …
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Read MoreFrom Micro-segmentation to Internal Firewalling From Micro-segmentation to Internal Firewalling The Evolution of VMware NSX Service-defined Firewall Today, many people take micro-segmentation for granted. It’s incredible to recall that just a few years ago, VMware introduced micro-segmentation to support the concept of …
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Read MorevSphere Bitfusion Now Generally Available! VMware acquired Bitfusion in 2019 with intention of incorporating the Bitfusion software into VMware vSphere 7 as a feature (https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2019/07/vmware-to-acquire-bitfusion.html). The vSphere Bitfusion feature was announced on June 2, 2020 during the Dell …
Read MoreIf you do SSL inspection in your company you can run into issues when using Skyline as the collector does Hostname verification. This will ensure the collector is connecting to the appropriate server by looking at the certificate’s “dnsName” or “subjectAltName” fields against the host in the URL of the connection. As …
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