I recently decided to disable my very hot, very expensive to cool spinning disk Fibre Channel SAN. It was also the slowest thing on my storage network. It had only 4 GB controllers. Upgrading it would be too expensive at the moment. Instead, I upgraded my HPE StoreVirtual VSAs to have more disk space. As I have licensed up to 10 TBs, I figured I would take advantage of that and increase my storage.
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In my GitHub repository is LinuxVSM, a port of the VMware Software Manager to Linux. The reasons for the port were many, but the main one was that I used Linux as my repository of ISO and other images from VMware. So, I wanted a tool I could use on Linux and not depend on Windows. In creating the port, I fixed several VSM issues.
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VMware will be removing the vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) from future versions of vSphere. I, for one, use vMA quite a bit. However, all hope is not lost. It is pretty easy to build your own version of a vMA. It is even easier now, as I have created an installer.
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I previously created a VMware vRealize Log Insight security operations center (SOC), which has been updated to support vSphere 6.5 U1. This release, with the SecureESX teaser, has been released on GitHub already. SecureESX has a bit of history behind it and has always been about auditing ESX and vSphere for security issues. Continue reading “DISA STIG Auditing for the VMware vRealize Log Insight SOC”
Upgrading the virtual network to use NSX is not a heavy or large task. It can be, depending on what you are doing, but the basics are fairly straightforward. These basics are not the wholesale replacement of your existing virtual network. They are not the inclusion of new forms or routing in your virtual environment. The are the addition of NSX on top of what you already have. Once you have NSX in place, then you can dream, plan, and adopt those better ways of managing and creating virtual networks. Continue reading “vSphere Upgrade Saga: NSX in 8 Easy Steps”
As I am preparing for my upgrade to vSphere 6.5, it is time once more to upgrade my HPE management tools, such as HPE Systems Insight Manager and HPE OneView for vCenter. Each has its own challenges and is not without issue.
