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Working from Home – Tips from a remote worker
Disclaimer *This post is unlike most posts published on the {code} blog* In these unprecedented times, it will be an adjustment for all of us to start working remotely over the course of the next few weeks. As someone who works remotely most of the time, I wanted to put together some tips that have The post Working from Home – Tips from a remote worker appeared first on VMware {code}.
VMware is uniquely positioned to help HR and IT teams quickly enable and support a remote workforce. In this webinar, hear best practices for designing and supporting remote-first strategies, scaling VDI environments, extending security policies beyond the firewall and more.
Large enterprises clearly trust Kubernetes, according to our most recent State of Kubernetes survey, and are using it for applications in production. And while there are barriers to adoption, they’re worth it for the productivity and resilience benefits that using Kubernetes yields. Among the key highlights from the new survey: 59 percent of large organizations The post Why Large Organizations Trust Kubernetes appeared first on Cloud Native Apps Blog.
Upgrade to 9.7 is little bit more complicated, because you need to upgrade (if you are using it) PostgreSQL.
Step-by-step guide
do a PostgreDB backup
yum install postgresql10-server
sudo systemctl stop postgresql-9.6.service && sudo systemctl stop postgresql-10.service
systemctl stop postgresql-9.6.service
su postgres
/usr/pgsql-10/bin/initdb -E UTF8 –locale=en_US.UTF-8 -D /var/lib/pgsql/10/data/
/usr/pgsql-10/bin/pg_upgrade –old-datadir /var/lib/pgsql/9.6/data/ –new-datadir /var/lib/pgsql/10/data/ –old-bindir /usr/pgsql-9.6/bin/ –new-bindir /usr/pgsql-10/bin/
change /var/lib/pgsql/10/data/pg_hba.conf same as /var/lib/pgsql/9.6/data/pg_hba.conf
# TYPE DATABASE USER ADDRESS METHOD
# “local” is for Unix domain socket connections only
local all all trust
# IPv4 local connections:
host all all 127.0.0.1/32 trust
# IPv6 local connections:
host all all ::1/128 trust
# Allow replication connections from localhost, by a user with the
# replication privilege.
#local replication all trust
#host replication all 127.0.0.1/32 trust
#host replication all ::1/128 trust
host all all 0.0.0.0/0 md5
vi /var/lib/pgsql/10/data/postgresql.conf
listen_addresses = ‘*’
Disable PostgreSQL 9.6 and enable and start PostgreSQL 10
systemctl disable postgresql-9.6.service
systemctl enable postgresql-10.service
systemctl start postgresql-10.service
su postgres
./analyze_new_cluster.sh
./delete_old_cluster.sh
Remove old PostgreSQL service
yum remove postgresql96-server
su postgres
psql
#list DB’s
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Still in progress… not all HW is in the list.. for now just the CORE HW is in the list… and new homeDC building is being build ..
Networking:
Compute:
DELL R710
DELL R710
DELL R710
NUC1 – Test & Dev
VSAN ROBO:
ESX2 (whitebox)
ESX5
Storage:
NearStore
QNAP 653Pro
Networking:
Compute:
GOLEM – ESXi 6.5.0 – Build 10719125
Networking:
Compute:
ESX
Storage:
Synology DS210j
vSpeaking Podcast Ep 144: Home Labs Powered by vSAN
This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast it’s all about Home Labs. Our good friend William Lam has been aggregating an amazing collection of Home Labs in the IT Community. On this episode we welcome William, Max Abelardo and Johan van Amersfoort do discuss this new Home Labs aggregated list and things to consider when The post vSpeaking Podcast Ep 144: Home Labs Powered by vSAN appeared first on Virtual Blocks.
VMware vSphere 6.0 Reaches EoGS in March 2020
Proactively inform your customers about the vSphere 6.0 End of General Support (EoGS) and help them upgrade to vSphere 6.5 or 6.7. Note that by upgrading to vSphere 6.5 or 6.7, customers not only get all the latest capabilities of vSphere, but also the latest vSAN release and capabilities (with the separate vSAN license). Learn […] The post VMware vSphere 6.0 Reaches EoGS in March 2020 appeared first on Partner News.
Thank you to everyone who applied for vExpert and thank you to the vExpert PROs for helping with the voting process. We are pleased to announce the list of 2020 vExperts. You can visit https://vexpert.vmware.com/directory to see a list and profile of each vExpert and see the list at the bottom of this post. All The post vExpert 2020 Award Announcement appeared first on VMware vExpert Blog.
VMware executives & Kubernetes pioneers join forces to help you unlock the potential of your team to accelerate digital innovation in a multi-cloud world.
New KB articles published for the week ending 9th February,2020
VMware App Volumes Impact of March 2020 LDAP Channel Binding & Signing Requirement for Microsoft Windows (ADV190023) on App Volumes Environments Published Date:03-02-2020 VMware Cloud on AWS [VMC on AWS] Creating an SDDC with AWS CloudFormation template fails with an error on AWS console Published Date:03-02-2020 [VMC on AWS] Resize SRM/VR Protected Virtual Machine Disk The post New KB articles published for the week ending 9th February,2020 appeared first on VMware Support Insider.
vCloud Automation University: Replacing the vRA VAMI Certificate
In this video, we’ll walk through the process of replacing the VAMI certificate for the vRA appliance. Applying custom certificate to the VMware vRealize Automation Appliance Management interface on port 5480 https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2078167 Replace the vRealize Automation Appliance Management Site Certificate https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Automation/7.6/com.vmware.vra.prepare.use.doc/GUID-E6515C12-61DA-4F67-8F44-C740B778743B.html https://vmwarelearningzone.vmware.com/
Along with the change in the recertification policy in February 2019, VMware has introduced a couple of easier ways to upgrade your previous certifications. The different upgrade paths for 2020 will be listed on our website within the next few weeks; this blog will help outline the general upgrade policy that you will see reflected The post Certification Upgrade Policy Update appeared first on VMware Education Services.
If you’re like me, you like to dive deep into technology to learn how things work in the safety of a lab environment. I enjoy experimenting with a live lab. I’ll use the lab to look behind the curtain and see what’s going on behind the scenes. The safety of the lab allows me to The post Deep dive into VMware Cloud Foundation – Part 1 Building a Nested Lab appeared first on Cloud Foundation.
Check prerequisites, documentation, release notes
Documentation: https://docs.vmware.com/en/vCloud-Director/index.html
Release notes: https://docs.vmware.com/en/vCloud-Director/10.0/rn/VMware-vCloud-Director-for-Service-Providers-100-Release-Notes.html
API: https://code.vmware.com/apis/553/vcloud-director
Instalation,configuration and upgrade guide: https://docs.vmware.com/en/vCloud-Director/9.7/com.vmware.vcloud.install.doc/GUID-F14315CC-B373-4A21-A3D9-270FFCF0A417.html
In my scenario I have CentOS 7 VM where is vCloud director 9.7 running. And another VM where is running PostgreSQL.
Step-by-step guide
/etc/init.d/vmware-vcd stop
su – postgres
pg_dump vcloud > /var/lib/pgsql/vcloud-backup_20200124-1821.sql
./vmware-vcloud-director-distribution-10.0.0-14638910.bin
Checking free disk space…doneChecking for a supported Linux distribution…Detected CentOS7 systemdoneChecking for necessary RPM prerequisites…doneExtracting VMware vCloud Director. Please wait, this could take a few minutes…vmware-vcloud-director-25.2019.09.12-14636284.x86_64.rpmvmware-vcloud-director-rhel-25.2019.09.12-14636284.x86_64.rpmvmware-vcloud-director-h5ui-25.2019.09.12-14636284.x86_64.rpmvmware-phonehome-1.0.0-14574960.noarch.rpmdoneVerifying RPM signatures…doneAn older version of VMware vCloud Director has been detected and will beupgraded to 10.0.0.If you choose to proceed, the installer will stop the vmware-vcd service,back up any configuration files from the previous release and migrate theproduct configuration as necessary.
Would you like to upgrade now? (y/n)? y
Upgrading VMware vCloud Director…
Installing the VMware vCloud Director 10.0.0 RPM…
warning: vmware-vcloud-director-25.2019.09.12-14636284.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 RSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 66fd4949 : NOKEY
Preparing… ################################# [100%]
Updating / installing…
1:vmware-vcloud-director-rhel-25.20################################# [ 13%]
2:vmware-vcloud-director-25.2019.09warning: /opt/vmware/vcloud-director/etc/global.properties created as /opt /vmware/vcloud-director/etc/global.properties.rpmnew
################################# [ 25%]
3:vmware-vcloud-director-h5ui-25.20################################# [ 38%]
4:vmware-phonehome-1.0.0-14574960 ################################# [ 50%]
Cleaning up / removing…
5:vmware-phonehome-1.0.0-12611311 ################################# [ 63%]
6:vmware-vcloud-director-h5ui-24.20################################# [ 75%]
7:vmware-vcloud-director-24.2019.03################################# [ 88%]
Update completed.
8:vmware-vcloud-director-rhel-24.20################################# [100%]
done
No DSA certificates found; disabling DSA ciphers for SSL/TLS connections. See KB 2056026 for details
Upgrade installation complete.
Next steps:
You will need to upgrade the database schema before starting the
vmware-vcd service. The product upgrade tool should be run only once per
vCloud Director group. The tool may be run with the following command:
/opt/vmware/vcloud-director/bin/upgradeRun upgrade script
Welcome to the vCloud Director upgrade utility
Verify that you have a valid license key to use the version of the
vCloud Director software to which you are upgrading.
This utility will apply several updates to the database. Please
ensure you have created a backup of your database prior to continuing.
Do you wish to upgrade the product now? [Y/N] y
Examining database at URL: jdbc:postgresql://Postgre-DB.lab:5432/vcloud?socketTimeout=90
The next step in the upgrade process will change the vCloud Director database schema.
Backup your database now using the tools provided by your database vendor.
Enter [Y] after the backup is complete. y
Running 5 upgrade tasks
Executing upgrade task:
Successfully ran upgrade task
Executing upgrade task:
Successfully ran upgrade task
Executing upgrade task:
Successfully ran upgrade task
Executing upgrade task:
……………./Successfully ran upgrade task
Executing upgrade task:
……………[15]
Successfully ran upgrade task
Database upgrade complete
Upgrade complete
Would you like to start the vCloud Director service now? If you choose not
to start it now, you can manually start it at any time using this command:
service vmware-vcd start
Start it now? [y/n] y
Starting vmware-vcd-watchdog: [ OK ]
Starting vmware-vcd-cell [ OK ]
In addition to a couple of recent conversations with peers, a recent comment on a post on my site lead
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During this Christmas break, I wanted to learn PowerCLI properly. As I’m researching the use-cases of new hardware types and workloads in the data center, I managed to produce a script to identify the PCIe Device to NUMA Node Locality within a VMware ESXi Host. The script set contains a script for the most popular […] The post PCIe Device NUMA Node Locality appeared first on frankdenneman.nl.
A year and six releases later we are releasing our second “holiday season” release – the 2.6.0! Let’s take a quick look at the new capabilities and see how far the provider developed throughout the year.
The new 2020 VMware Certifications and Badges are now available. With the year designator, it becomes clearer when you earned it and how current your expertise is. The credential you earn depends on when you complete the requirements. If you met all the requirements in 2019 (starting on January 16, 2019 – ending December The post Introducing 2020 Certifications and Badges appeared first on VMware Education Services.
Continuing our Search Poster series, we’ve arrived at the NSX-T search poster! Using the search engine inside VMware vRealize Network Insight can be a revealing experience. It has every single bit of data you ever wanted to see about anything in your infrastructure and it’s available at your fingertips. Because of the vast amount of The post vRealize Network Insight Search Poster for NSX-T appeared first on VMware Cloud Management.
I’m sure most readers will be somewhat familiar with VMware’s Project Pacific at this point. It really is the buzz of VMworld 2019. If I had to describe Project Pacific in as few words as possible, it is a merging of vSphere and Kubernetes (K8s) with the goal of enabling our customers to deploy new, next-gen, distributed, modern applications which may be comprised of container workloads and virtual machine workloads. Not only that, but we also need to provide our customers with a consistent…Read More
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Five Tips for a Successful BYO vSAN Cluster
Guest blog author Sidharth Swami wrote this article. He is a Sr. Technical Account Manager here at VMware. As such Sidharth spends a lot of time with customers in real-world environments. Thank you, Sidharth, for sharing your time and expertise regarding build-your-own (BYO) vSAN clusters. vSAN Turn-key Appliances and vSAN ReadyNodes are Recommended One of the many The post Five Tips for a Successful BYO vSAN Cluster appeared first on Virtual Blocks.
