Standing up and configuring a Horizon environment does not need to be a daunting, manual process! Join Joey Ware, Sr. TAM, in TAM Lab 110 as he walks through automating the deployment of Horizon from start to finish! We will do a follow up on lessons learned since this video was made ASAP.
In this TAM Lab, Raul de la Flor (Technical Account Manager) will demonstrate how we can test different hardware failure scenarios on a VSAN Stretched Cluster, checking how resilient VSAN is and how Storage Policy Based Management SPB can help us to protect our data.
Raw Device Mappings (RDMs) can be difficult to work with when managing a virtual datacenter and with the latest vSphere storage capabilities you may not need RDMs any longer. Join Steve Tilkens (@stevetilkens) as he gets hands-on with RDMs and demonstrates how to migrate VMs with RDMs and convert RDMs to VMDKs.
Adobe Flash Player is End of Life on 12/31/2020. Zachary Johnson and Jason Schertzinger discuss what this means for certain VMware products and what you need to know as a result.
In this session, we highlight two different approaches to solving the vCenter STS Certificate Expiration Issue (KB79248 & KB76719) via automation. Christopher Price joins us with his customer, David Crown (@_davecrown), to highlight how they leveraged Ansible and Mark McGill shows us his approach via PowerShell.
NOTE: This video is roughly 60 minutes in length so it would be worth blocking out some time to watch it!
In this session, Kelly Dare (@vKDare) and Scottie Ray (@H20nly) explore some of the foundational components of vSphere 7 w/K8s. They walk through some generic Cluster API concepts and show how they are implemented in VMware’s newest offering. They explore namespace creation, the idea of native pods, Tanzu Kubernetes Cluster service, as well as some tie-ins to other portions of the VMware portfolio.
NOTE: This video is roughly 60 minutes in length so it would be worth blocking out some time to watch it!
With the release of vSphere 7, customers can now move beyond authentication mechanisms like SSO domain users, LDAP(S), and joining vCenter to their Active Directory domains. Identity Federation allows for us to leverage enterprise identity providers, like Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), to grant access to vSphere! Join Bill Hill (@virtual_bill), for this TAM Lab session where we walk through what this looks like and how our customers can leverage this in their environment.
Steve Tilkens (@stevetilkens) reviews the process to build a Microsoft SQL Server cluster (Windows Server Failover Cluster) on vSphere and the configurations required to tune the workload for performance.
NOTE: This video is roughly 60 minutes in length so it would be worth blocking out some time to watch it!
Helpful Links
Microsoft SQL Server on Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC) on VMware vSAN – New Capabilities! – https://blogs.vmware.com/apps/2019/10…
vSphere 7 Microsoft Windows Server Failover Cluster with Clustered VMDKs https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/di…
Disk and File Layout for SQL Server – https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/sqls…
Performance Best Practices for VMware vSphere 6.7 – https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/di…
StorageHub – https://storagehub.vmware.com/
SQL Server Failover Cluster Instance on VMware vSAN™ Native – https://storagehub.vmware.com/t/sql-s…
Best Practices For Running VMware vSphere On iSCSI – https://storagehub.vmware.com/t/best-…
Architecting Microsoft SQL Server on VMware vSphere – https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/di…
Microsoft Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) with shared disks on VMware vSphere 6.x: Guidelines for supported configurations (2147661) –
https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2147661
Setup for Failover Clustering and Microsoft Cluster Service –
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSp…
ESXi/ESX hosts with visibility to RDM LUNs being used by MSCS/WSFC nodes with RDMs may take a long time to start or during LUN rescan (1016106) – https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1016106
In this session, Steve Tilkens (@stevetilkens) and Victor Monga (@victorvirtual) deploy and configure vRealize Network Insight (vRNI) in Steve’s lab. Victor also gets hands on with vRNI in another demo environment.
NOTE: This video is roughly 55 minutes in length so it would be worth blocking out some time to watch it!
Steve Tilkens (@stevetilkens) deploys vRealize Operations and Log Insight via vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager.
Great job Steve!