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I was recently working with someone who was using vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.10 (now known as Aria Suite Lifecycle) to update vRealize Network Insight from version 6.7 to 6.9 (now known as Aria Operations for Networks). The Product Support … Continue reading

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Using VI/JSON with Powershell

I recently saw a post on a new feature that is enabled by default in vSphere 8.0u1: https://blogs.vmware.com/code/2023/06/10/introducing-vi-json-a-modern-wire-protocol-for-vsphere-management. The article describes a new JSON-based, REST-like protocol named VI/JSON that allows access to all the familiar SOAP XML properties. It seemed … Continue reading

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Emulating a Wide Area Network with Latency and Packet Loss

Have you ever found yourself needing to simulate network latency or packet loss? I recently wanted to test a replication scenario but needed to have at least 15ms or so of latency between the source and destination. Years ago I … Continue reading

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Horizon Linux Virtual Desktop – Non Persistent Ubuntu 22.04

I recently wanted to apply some updates (OS updates and Horizon Agent) to my Ubuntu 20.04 desktop. It had been several months since I had last updated the desktop and realized the Ubuntu 22.04 had since been released. This is … Continue reading

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Add vRealize Log Insight endpoint to Skyline Collector

The Skyline Collector 3.3 release [release notes] recently added support for vRealize Log Insight / Aria Operations of Logs to the Skyline platform. As described in the release notes, only local authentication is supported in this release. I had not … Continue reading

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