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Author: Niels Engelen

Working as a Principal Analyst in Product Management for Veeam Software with an interest in anything virtual and cloud with a strong focus on AWS, Azure and Microsoft 365. He is also a VMware Certified Professional, a Veeam Certified Architect and gained the VMware vExpert award (2012-2022).
Not chosen for VMworld? Run a #vBrownBag session

Not chosen for VMworld? Run a #vBrownBag session

Yesterday the VMworld team send out e-mails to everyone whose session got chosen. As always there are people who submit a session and hear the news that sadly their session didn’t make it. Did you submit a session, got rejected but still want to share it? Run a #vBrownBag session! The ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag is a series of online webinars held using GotoMeeting and covering various Virtualization & VMware Certification topics. Want to get in? Just contact them for a presentation…

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Munin plugin: ESXi CPU/memory usage

Munin plugin: ESXi CPU/memory usage

What is Munin? Munin is a networked resource monitoring tool that can help analyze resource trends and “what just happened to kill our performance?” problems. It is designed to be very plug and play. A default installation provides a lot of graphs with almost no work. Munin can be installed on any Linux system (and there is a basic Windows version) and works with the plain old server-agent idea. The reason behind this is that you can create custom scripts…

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New Fling: ESXi Google Authenticator by VMware Labs

New Fling: ESXi Google Authenticator by VMware Labs

VMware Labs released a new Fling called ESXi Google Authenticator. The download is available as VIB package. If you want to make adjustments it is also possible to download the source code. Quote taken from the Fling page: Google Authenticator is a project that provides two-factor authentication by using both a PAM (Pluggable Authentication Module) module and a mobile application for generating one-time passcodes. In ESXi Google Authenticator, we modified the source code of Google-Authenticator to enable two-step authentication on…

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2013 vExperts announced!

2013 vExperts announced!

Last night John Troyer made a new VMTN blog post announcing the vExperts for 2013. I am honoured to be on the list again this year. This is a great community full with experts and VMware fanatics. Each in their own way, either they work for VMware or they evangelize it. This year there were about 850 applications according to John and 575 made the list this year. Some funny things in the list: There are 2 people named Scott…

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vCenter Server 5.1 Update 1a released

vCenter Server 5.1 Update 1a released

VMware finally released an update for vCenter Server 5.1 Update 1 which resolves the SSO login bug (KB for this issue). This release replaces the 5.1 Update 1 download so make sure you replace your 5.1 Update 1 ISO with the 5.1 Update 1a ISO! Keep in mind that there are some things that still won’t work, for a clear explanation check out the KB. Happy updating!