Kubernetes in 5 mins

By Tony Reardon 6 Jan, 2022 Leave a comment

#12DaysOfK8s Day 1: Kubernetes in 5 mins Kubernetes in 5 mins In this lightboard talk, Steve Tegeler walks through Kubernetes fundamentals for beginners. And check Steve’s latest video: Mapping Kubernetes to your infrastructure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex8jY7HNnUY&feature=youtu.be Kubernetes 101: https://www.vmware.com/topics/glossary/content/kubernetes VMware Tanzu – Enterprise Kubernetes Solutions: https://cloud.vmware.com/tanzu Kubernetes Academy: https://kubernetes.academy/ VMware Enterprise PKS: https://cloud.vmware.com/vmware-enterprise-pks VMware Essential PKS: https://cloud.vmware.com/vmware-essential-pks

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Announcing vSphere 7 Update 3

By Tony Reardon 29 Sep, 2021 Leave a comment

Lots of exciting new features! We’re looking forward to rolling this out for testing Announcing vSphere 7 Update 3 Learn about what’s new in vSphere 7 Update 3, including enhancements for AI, Kubernetes, persistent memory, NVMe, and usability. VMware Social Media Advocacy  411 total views

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Script to take hosts out of maintenance mode in vCenter & vROPs

By Tony Reardon 8 Sep, 2021 Leave a comment

On occasion, I’ve noticed that people can sometimes forget to take a host out of maintenance mode in vROPs after completing some work in vCenter. I have created a short PowerCLI script that will pull a list of hosts from a specified CSV file, connect to your vCenter & vROPs then exit the listed hosts

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Add additional Syslog servers to ESXi hosts

By Tony Reardon 4 Jun, 2021 Leave a comment

This script proved to be a little more challenging than I had first expected. As you may be aware, simply running Set-VMHostSysLogServer will overwrite your existing configuration which is less than ideal when you’re trying to add a new server to your list. This script will prompt you for a file that will need to

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Create a custom dashboard in vROPs

By Tony Reardon 24 Mar, 2021 Leave a comment

Creating a dashboard in vRealize Operation Manager has been made significantly easier over the years. Here we will create a simply dashboard that let you choose a cluster and pull up some basic information about it. Go to Dashboards and select Create Dashboard Enter a name for your new dashboard Using the toggle switch at

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Creating a view in vROPs

By Tony Reardon 24 Mar, 2021 Leave a comment

vRealize Operations Manager gives you the ability to take all the data and metrics it has ingested and use that to create smaller, more targeted, visual data for specific objects and metrics for a given time frame. Once created, these can be used independently or as part of dashboards and reports. Below, I will run

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