Educational Episodes: Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI)

Virtualization of your work servers is a necessary action, but the problem is when you do that, you basically put all your eggs in one basket. Let’s imagine that your Hyper-V host with several VMs on it requires rebooting. Well, in that case, you won’t be able to boot a specific VM until the host OS is restarted, and all VMs are booted. And there’s no guarantee they will be available after that! Now, that surely doesn’t sound too good. However, luckily there are ways to make this process less painful and more efficient.

While configuring Hyper-V host, you’ll have to be able to boot your VMs in a specific order. I gotta admit, even though it took me a while to figure out how to customize this process, I have some results for you.
Mind, even if your server OS isn’t prone to failure, it’ll still be wise to configure Hyper-V automatic start action for VMs. One way or another, someday, you’ll have to reboot your server. So, when such a reboot occurs, it would’ve been nice if you didn’t have to boot ever separate VM manually, don’t you think so?

Part 2 of the topic explained how to configure the AWS Elastic Beanstalk (EB) environment and the Django project to use the Postgres database. The current third installment will focus on configuring S3 storage for static and media files, as well as assigning a custom domain name for the app.

Securing servers and workstations and managing them directly from the cloud is a must-have during the current “stay-at-home.” Windows Defender ATP is a Microsoft security product to monitor and protect your servers without excessive effort. ATP constitutes a preventative, reactive, and investigative feature of the said product.

Generally, people like new things, especially when it comes to technology. But with the new vSphere 7 coming in, little to no focus is offered to what’s been discarded. For example, there is no more Flash-based vSphere Web Client, Platform Services Controller has been dropped, vCenter for Windows — canceled, and so on.

You’re not the only one struggling with ERROR GatewayLogic while trying to deploy OMS Gateway for Windows Defender ATP. The problem lies with the OMS Gateway having issues with communicating via the URL that’s provided. Looking into inbound connections on the OMS and authorizing URLs manually should do the trick.

We need tools that simplify upgrading, migrating, and managing, and VMware delivers. The recent launch presented the new version of the vSphere Update Manager (VUM) — vSphere Lifecycle Manager. Not only does it allow to upgrade vSphere clusters and ESXi hosts, it now has image management to keep the hosts in the desired state.

The previous text by this author explained how to deploy the Windows Virtual Desktop solution. Now that you’ve learned how Azure Active Directory can help simplify your shifting to remote work, there’s another trick. To further ease the process, you can deploy the session hosts by using an image.

Before starting to talk about new features and improvements, I suggest we take a little trip down memory lane.

Deliberating about choosing the necessary suite should consider various issues. For Windows VMs it’s just VMware tools and that’s it. For Linux VMs, you have to abide by the VMware Compatibility Guide, which is very strict, as you know. Open-VM tools are not worse, even better at some points, than the VMware ones, but nuances are due.