Patching vRealize Lifecycle Manager v2.1

So we have our vRLCM installed and it is time to patch. Hre is our series on the subject: Installing vRealize Lifecycle Manager - find it here Patching vRealize Lifecycle Manager - this article Configuring vRealize Lifecycle Manger - find it here Deploying with vRealize Lifecycle Manager - find it here Lets get started. We … Continue reading Patching vRealize Lifecycle Manager v2.1 →

Installing vRealize Lifecycle Manager 2.1

At work in some of our presentations, we talk about Lifecycle Manager, and since I have been interested in it for a while I thought I would get it going. But I did not find many blogs about it so I thought I would blog it. I think that this article will be pretty long … Continue reading Installing vRealize Lifecycle Manager 2.1 →

Installing Cylance Smart Antivirus

So I need some new anti-virus in the lab and I was thinking I need something better than traditional AV. I heard a number of guys who I trust and believe in talking about Cylance, and looked into it. It is next - generation type of security software that does anti-virus - the product is … Continue reading Installing Cylance Smart Antivirus →

Using Dynamic variables in VAO

One of the more discrete things in VAO is that you can have dynamic variables added to your report template and each time a report is generated - any type of report in fact - the variables will be replaced with the right info for the report that was processed. This is something I found … Continue reading Using Dynamic variables in VAO →

Improving failover speed in VAO

Hello there, If you are using Veeam Availability Orchestrator (VAO) you may have noticed that we limit a VM group to start 10 VMs simultaneously. If your plan has two VM groups that means the first group starts 10 VMs at a time until there are not more to start, than the next VM group … Continue reading Improving failover speed in VAO →

What else can you do with Veeam Availability Orchestrator?

Hello all, I mention this stuff a lot and people are always surprised. So I thought I would share this here so that more of you can see this. Veeam Availability Orchestrator (VAO) v2 is a DR orchestration tool that can use replicas or backups as the source for failovers in a crisis. As a … Continue reading What else can you do with Veeam Availability Orchestrator? →

Deploy and configure VMware Unified Access Gateway

Hi there, I don't like long blog titles, and my was long enough. This article will be about removing a View security server, and replacing it was a UAG which is supposed to make everything more simple, and more powerful. BTW, when you go to configure there is a choice for import config, that is … Continue reading Deploy and configure VMware Unified Access Gateway →