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vmware vShieldApp versus vShieldEdge – the difference explained!
One of my colleagues today called me to ask what the difference was between vShieldApp and vShieldEdge, as he was looking at a competing firewall (Juniper VGW). For the life of me I could not explain it clearly as vmware’s website isn’t that clear about it either. I reached out to my trusted vmware SME […]
Tags: cloud, vmware, vshield, vshieldapp, vshieldedge
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Installing IBM SmartCloud Entry 2.3 for VMware vCenter
To install IBM SmartCloud Entry 2.3 for VMware vCenter, you must have a non-vCenter Windows or Linux server to host the application on. **You cannot install SmartCloud Entry on a vCenter server by default due to a TCP port conflict. Run the SmartCloudEntry 2.3 Trial installer Select Language (English), click Ok Click Next Click I accept […]
Tags: IBM, SmartCloud, Vcenter, vmware
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Find all snapshots within your vCenter environment using PowerCLI
Find all snapshots within your vCenter environment using PowerCLI $snaplist = Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine -Filter @{“snapshot”=”$snaplist”} $snaplist | select name
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Add a new NFS datastore to all of the hosts in a cluster using PowerCLI
Needing a way to add a NFS to multiple hosts, I resorted to using VMware’s API PowerCLI! get-vmhost | New-Datastore -Nfs -Name DataStoreName -Path /data1/export -NfsHost nfshost.domain.local
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