ServiceNow ITSM Plug-in 8.6 released for vRA Integration  

ITSM 8.6 Features 

• Enhancement around debug Loggers.
• Reduce the delete operation on question_choice table
• Minor bug fixes

Below are the additional features/functionalities in the ITSM application

• Limit the scheduled job to run on a limited number of threads
• Improvement to the load time of Catalog Item Request form
• Toggle switch for form loader
• Additional Loggers and improvement around try/catch logging
• Fix for Project/Endpoint reference empty on deployments/resources
• Compatible with IPAM integration plugin installed on vRA
• Provisioning Catalog items and Day 2 actions catalog items entitlement across ServiceNow users through user criteria
• Resource visibility based on ownership within ServiceNow
• Reconcile of CMDB
• Email Notification
• Provision to configure Multi-Level Approvals within request workflow
• Auto re-trigger of Catalog item request if Mid-Server goes down and comes up
• Configurable vRA Cloud region base URL
• ServiceNow Incident ticket for failed deployment request
• Condition field visibility support with equals and not equals parameter
• Support of deployment name field with an external source 
• Support of custom loader on catalog item form(Native UI)
• Enhancement around reconciliation of deployment, resources, and day-2 actions,
• UI enhancement on catalog item form 

Supported ServiceNow Releases

        Paris, Quebec, and Rome

Supported vRealize Automation Version

        vRA 8.5, vRA 8.5.1, vRA8.6, vRA 8.6.1, vRA8.6.2, and vRA Cloud

VMware NSX for vSphere 6.4.x is EoGS January 16, 2022.

 VMware NSX for vSphere 6.4.x is EoGS January 16, 2022.

There is an additional one year of Technical Guidance which ends on January 16, 2023. Limited support during this year is documented below (see Resources).

Resources

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/85706

https://www.vmware.com/products/nsx/migrate-to-nsx-t.html

https://www.vmware.com/support/services/extended.html

https://www.vmware.com/support/policies/lifecycle.html

During the Technical Guidance phase, VMware will not offer new hardware support, server/client/guest OS updates, new Security patches or bug fixes unless otherwise noted.

Renaming VMware Virtual Machine and its files

Renaming VMware Virtual Machine and its files 

There are some situations where you need to rename the Virtual Machine, but renaming Virtual Machine within vCenter will not rename the folder and Virtual Machine files, this may cause confusions in the future that VM name is different and folder and file names of different from the the current VM name.

There is way to come out situation easily by performing the sVmotion (Storage vMotion) of  the Virtual Machine to different Datastore from the current datastore, This action will rename the folder and and Virtual Machine files.

There comes a situation that you are cluster is on vSAN storage and there is no other shared storage in that cluster, No worries move the Virtual Machines to local datastore of the one of the host and move them back to vSAN storage 

Here’s a List of Docker Commands

Here’s a List of Docker Commands

docker run – Runs a command in a new container.
docker start – Starts one or more stopped containers
docker stop – Stops one or more running containers
docker build – Builds an image form a Docker file
docker pull – Pulls an image or a repository from a registry
docker push – Pushes an image or a repository to a registry
docker export – Exports a container’s filesystem as a tar archive
docker exec – Runs a command in a run-time container
docker search – Searches the Docker Hub for images
docker attach – Attaches to a running container
docker commit – Creates a new image from a container’s changes
Check out the complete list of commands in the Docker documentation

OpenStack Overview

The OpenStack project is an open source cloud computing platform that supports all types of cloud environments. The project aims for simple implementation, massive scalability, and a rich set of features. Cloud computing experts from around the world contribute to the project.
OpenStack provides an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solution through a variety of complemental services. Each service offers an application programming interface (API) that facilitates this integration. The following table provides a list of OpenStack services:

Table 1.1. OpenStack services
Service	Project name	Description
Dashboard	Horizon	Provides a web-based self-service portal to interact with underlying OpenStack services, such as launching an instance, assigning IP addresses and configuring access controls.
Compute	Nova	Manages the lifecycle of compute instances in an OpenStack environment. Responsibilities include spawning, scheduling and decommissioning of virtual machines on demand.
Networking	Neutron	Enables Network-Connectivity-as-a-Service for other OpenStack services, such as OpenStack Compute. Provides an API for users to define networks and the attachments into them. Has a pluggable architecture that supports many popular networking vendors and technologies.
Storage
Object Storage	Swift	Stores and retrieves arbitrary unstructured data objects via a RESTful, HTTP based API. It is highly fault tolerant with its data replication and scale out architecture. Its implementation is not like a file server with mountable directories.
Block Storage	Cinder	Provides persistent block storage to running instances. Its pluggable driver architecture facilitates the creation and management of block storage devices.
Shared services
Identity service	Keystone	Provides an authentication and authorization service for other OpenStack services. Provides a catalog of endpoints for all OpenStack services.
Image Service	Glance	Stores and retrieves virtual machine disk images. OpenStack Compute makes use of this during instance provisioning.
Telemetry	Ceilometer	Monitors and meters the OpenStack cloud for billing, benchmarking, scalability, and statistical purposes.
Higher-level services
Orchestration	Heat	Orchestrates multiple composite cloud applications by using either the native HOT template format or the AWS CloudFormation template format, through both an OpenStack-native REST API and a CloudFormation-compatible Query API.
Database Service	Trove	Provides scalable and reliable Cloud Database-as-a-Service functionality for both relational and non-relational database engines.

This guide describes how to deploy these services in a functional test environment and, by example, teaches you how to build a production environment. Realistically, you would use automation tools such as Ansible, Chef, and Puppet to deploy and manage a production environment.

 Conceptual architecture“

As graphical view this is a good oversight about the different modules and how they work together. The drawing this from the OpenStack documentation. The original can be found here: http://docs.openstack.org/juno/install-guide/install/yum/content/ch_overview.html

Registration Open for New VMware Certification Exams VCP6-CMA, VCP6-NV and VCP6-DTM

VMware has announced the following three VMware Certified Professional 6 (VCP6) certification exams which are now open for registration, 

The first available appointment is on August 30, 2015:

   VMware Certified Professional 6 – Cloud Management and Automation (VCP6-CMA) Exam #2V0-631
   VMware Certified Professional 6 – Network Virtualization (VCP6-NV) Exam #2V0-641
   VMware Certified Professional 6 – Desktop and Mobility (VCP6-DTM) Exam #2V0-651


These exams will be available for 50% off at the onsite Certification Exam Center at VMworld 2015 US in San Francisco, California and at  VMworld 2015 Europe in Barcelona, Spain.

You want to be on the first to get certified on these register now and can take the exams when they are made available from 30th of August 2015

New VCA Certifications Available: All are Anonuced this Month

New VMware Certified Associate programs announced this month 

• VMware Certified Associate 6 – Cloud Management and Automation (VCA6-CMA)
• VMware Certified Associate 6 – Hybrid Cloud (VCA6-HC)
• VMware Certified Associate 6 – Network Virtualization (VCA6-NV)
  

• VMware Certified Associate 6 - Data Center Virtualization (VCA6-DCV)
• VMware Certified Associate 6 - Desktop and Mobility (VCA6-DTM)

The links above will take you to the requirements for new candidates, related training courses, and objectives for each exam.