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On 9 th Aug 2018 , I took the most difficult decisions of my life to leave my country India and one of the best companies in information technology VMware after working for 4.5 years. Our search for a better standard of living in a developed country and secured future for my kids ended up in Australia. We did evaluate Canada & Germany as well, but looking at all the factors, Australia was the place which we locked down to migrate and settle. Back in early June, I started looking for an internal transfer within VMware . However, after talking to multiple bosses and divisions, nothing was materializing for an internal move. I had to make a hard choice to leave VMware and move ahead with my decision of moving countries. I began my job hunt during my notice period within VMware and 15 days later I came across a wonderful opportunity in Dell EMC @ Sydney , Australia. I am pleased that I got an opportunity in the parent and consortium of companies Although I am going to miss working wi...

We were having frequent hardware issues on our Dell PowerEdge R630 hyper converged servers and the Dell Support recommended in upgrading the Avago (LSI) Dell PERC H730 Mini Controller Driver and Firmware to the latest version. Avago (LSI) Dell PERC H730 Mini Existing Version Dell Recommended Firmware 25.5.2.0001 25.5.4.0006 Driver 6.910.18.00 7.703.18.00-1OEM Note : The procedure of upgrade is applicable and tested on vSphere 6.5 U1 or vSAN 6.6 environments We were running the support Driver/Firmware as all vSAN Health checks were green. However, there was a latest build available which included few additional fixes. Let me show you how easy it was to update the Storage Controller Drivers and Firmware using the VMware Update Manager and vSAN Configuration Assistant Upgrade Tool . The Sequence that we need to execute is as follows: Upgrade the Driver - LSI_mr3 VIB driver using the VMware Update Manager After doing the above step you will start seeing the Controller Firmware and Ava...

I had been intrigued by the Samsung DeX mode post its launch but didn’t have the courage to buy the 125$ (Rs. 10,000/- INR) Samsung DeX Station. I was on a look-out for an alternate Hub which could do the DeX mode on my Galaxy S8+ for a lot less. After searching @ AliExpress I finally managed to find a hub called EASYA Thunderbolt 3 USB C to HDMI Adapter DeX Mode for Samsung Galaxy S8/S9 which had some good positive reviews and for 33$ The moment of truth was to plug-in the Galaxy S8+ and try the DeX mode. Attempt-1 : Managed to plug the phone to the hub and HDMI monitor as the output. Next thing I noticed was the screen mirror got enabled and DeX Mode pop-up wouldn’t come or get detected. Attempt-2 : Additional to the above I plugged in the Power in the USB-C 3.1 PD Port and magically the pop-up appeared on the phone “ Start DeX Mode ” If you don’t have the wireless mouse plugged in the entire Galaxy S8+ screen acts like a mouse trackpad which can come-in handy. Productivity with...

If you are using multiple vRealize Operations Manager (vROPS) – Management Packs like Horizon , VSAN , NSX and vCenter and want to monitor their availability of the adapter/POD in terms of whether they are “ Collecting Data ” and get notified via email when the collection of data stops due to unknown reasons. Then go ahead and read further. If you don’t setup the monitoring one doesn't get notified until someone logins to the vROPS Manager and see the adapter status physically. Adapter Status: Collection State/Status: To achieve the above its a 3 steps process. You will have to create the following: Custom Symptom Definition Custom Alert Definition Custom Notification Symptom Definitions We will create four custom Symptom Definition (SD) for Horizon Adapter, Horizon POD as it collects data, vCenter instances and VSAN Adapter. Following are the SD combined: Horizon Adapter Instance Open the vROPS Manager and navigate to Alerts – Symptom Definitions Click on the + Under the Base O...

In this post I will demonstrate the configuration that are required to deploy the VMware Enrollment Server s for High availability and redundancy. This includes two Certificate Authority CA’s and Enrollment Servers My colleague Tarique Chowdhury has an excellent post on the TrueSSO Lab Setup . However in that deployment it talks about a single Enrollment Server and Certificate Authority Server. This post is not a replacement of the Setting Up TrueSSO guide on VMware Pubs. However the below mentioned two sections complement during the configurations for everything else follow the setup guide/blogs: Certificate deployment – Enrollment Agent (Computer). Deploying the Enrollment Agent (Computer) certificate onto this server, we are authorizing this ES to act as an Enrollment Agent and generate Certificates on behalf of users. Both the Certificate Authority Server Enrollment Agent (Computer) certificate needs to be added. They are added one-by-one. The Personal –> Certificate store sh...

In this post we shall go over the remaining configuration on “ Pools” and “Virtual Servers” of the NSX Load Balancing for VMware Unified Access Gateway. 4. Configure the Load Balancing – Pools Overall we will be creating four Pools as follows: Click on the green plus sign to add a new pool In the Name field, type: XXX-UAG-POOL-8443 Leave the Description blank For Algorithm , pick IP-HASH Leave Algorithm Parameters blank For Monitors , pick default_tcp_monitor Click on the green plus sign to add a new pool In the Name field, type: XXX-UAG-POOL-4172TCP Leave the Description blank For Algorithm , pick IP-HASH Leave Algorithm Parameters blank For Monitors , pick default_tcp_monitor Click on the green plus sign to add a new pool In the Name field, type: XXX-UAG-POOL-4172UDP Leave the Description blank For Algorithm , pick IP-HASH Leave Algorithm Parameters blank For Monitors , pick default_tcp_monitor Click on the green plus sign to add a new pool In the Name field, type: XXX-UA...