The next meeting of the Cincinnati VMware User Group will be June 18, 2019.
The focus of the meeting will be:
Hytrust is sponsoring the event
It will be held at
University of Cincinnati Teachers-Dyer Complex
2610 McMicken Circle
Cincinnati, OH 45221
You can register at VMUG.COM
We are full on into spring. The flowers are blooming, and I
am cutting grass twice a week. Welcome to the April 2019 edition of vToolBelt. vSphere 6.7 Update 2 is the big news this month. It is out and hot. We will also cover VMware Project Skyline.
For those of you still running vSphere 6.0, don’t look over your shoulder – End of General Support is less than a year away. Time to start planning the upgrade!
Let’s get to it!
The following products are nearing the End of General Support. You can find the full list on the VMware Lifecycle Product Matrix.
| NSX-T 2.0/2.1 – 9/7/19 | vROPS – 6.6/6.7 – 8/23/19 |
| Horizon View 6.x – 6/19/19 | User Environment Manager 9.2 – 5-16/19 |
| vRealize Log Insight 4.6/4.7 – 8/23/19 | App Volumes 2.13 – 10/19/19 |
| AirWatch Console 9.3 – 9/14/19 | Identity Manger 3.12 – 9/14/19 |
| vRealize Lifecycle Manager 1.0-1.3 – 9/19/19 | |
| vSphere 6.0 – 3/12/20 |
I’ve been working on changing some things in my lab lately, and wanted to build a jumphost that I could get to from anywhere and use it to work on my VMware Virtualization lab. While it would be pretty easy to setup a Windows machine, my lab dollars are hard to come by and I wanted to save every bit to grow the capacity. Ever since PowerShell was made available on multiple platforms, I’ve wanted to try it out on Linux.
I am in no way a Linux expert; but have worked in multiple distros and am fairly comfortable – at least for non-production use. I set up a VM with Ubuntu Desktop and applied all of the patches. I’ll let others debate the virtues of the various Linux distributions. I picked Ubuntu a while ago and it seemed to make sense to focus on a single distribution to best develop my expertise. I chose Ubuntu Desktop as I wanted to have a GUI available should I be working remotely and needed to do a demo or work though something requiring a browser.
The toolset I need for my jumphost is fairly easy to assemble:
Continue reading “Installing PowerShell and PowerCLI on Linux”
You can put me in the long time Mac/iPhone user group. Not only do they make excellent hardware – Apple really goes to extraordinary lengths to integrate the software and user experience. A Macbook Pro has been my daily driver for work for nearly 3 years. Using a Mac all day every day is very enjoyable; but one little irritation has nagged at me. Images in the Messages MacOS app are broken! The image would never appear. An icon with a filename would appear but that was it.
At first I thought it was probably the corporate VPN connection that might be blocking them. Work had me so busy, I just ignored it and opened my phone each time a message with a picture came in.
Today there is more work than ever to do; but for whatever reason – I really had to scratch that itch this time! After some experimentation the solution presented itself!
The Messages app stores incoming images in a folder (Library/Messages/Attachments). Upon examining my system, I found a zero byte file (/Users/your-user-name/Library/Messages/Attachments). That seemed pretty odd. A bit of searching and I found an article on the Apple Communities site.
Remove that file and create a directory with the same name.
When you restart Messages any new messages with pictures should work just fine!
A few thoughts:
Welcome to the middle of March and Saint Patrick’s Day! February flew by so fast I missed it. Conference season is starting to spin up. In this edition of vToolbelt, we have important information for those upgrading to Horizon 7.8 or NSX 6.4.4. There are also a few links to tools that can make your life easier. Pop open your favorite Irish Beverage and do some reading!
Cincinnati VMUG
Join the Cincinnati VMUG team on the University of Cincinnati campus for an overview of VMware AppDefense and Carbon Black.
March 28, 2019 / 11am-1:30
Register
Central Ohio VMUG UserCON
At this free, one-day conference, you will:
April 2, 2019 / 8:00 AM
Register
The next VMware UserGroup meeting in Cincinna
ti has been announced!
March 28th, 2019 / 11am-1:30pm
University of Cincinnati
Teachers-Dyer Complex
2610 McMicken Circle
Cincinnati, OH 45221
You can register for this event at the Cincinnati User Group page on VMUG.COM.
Make plans to attend the Quarterly meeting of the 
Central Ohio VMUG (COVMUG) on February 26th, 2019!
The agenda is
The event will be held at the Tree of Life Center / 5000 Arlington Centre Blvd / Columbus, Ohio 43220
Save the date on your calendar for the next VMware user Group meeting in Cleveland! Make sure to attend this VMUG and join the engineers from Eaton Corp as they share their experiences with using a large number of VMware products to provide infrastructure and services for internal customers all over the world.
The event will be held from on February 27th from 3:30pm-7:00pm at
1000 Eaton Blvd
Cleveland, Ohio 44122
Learn more and register at VMUG.COM.
Welcome to Janaury! It is pretty chilly here in Ohio; but fortunately my hands are warm enough to type and bring you some VMware news! Light a fire, pull up a chair and read on for some virtualization news!
VMware 2019 Technology Outlook webcast
Join VMware vSphere Experts and fellow VMware TAM customers in a roundtable discussion around upgrading to vSphere 6.7 at Join VMware VP & CTO, Chris Wolf as he explores VMware’s Strategic Priorites for 2019 and beyond. This will include cloud and security trends and how customers can stay at the forefront of these technological advancements
January 31 @ 2pm EST – Register
VMware on VMware Webinar
In this webinar, VMware IT will review VMware’s internal deployment of Workspace ONE and how it enables employee self-service, single sign-on to multiple applications (internal as well as SAAS), and simplifies management of mobile devices.
February 12 – 12pm EST – Register
The 5 Core principles of Cyber Hygiene webinar
How VMware applies the five core principles of cyber hygiene will highlight how a multinational technology company enables and secures a highly diverse workforce. From micro-segmentation, to cloud and encryption, learn from actual practitioners on what has worked for VMware.
January 23 -12pm – Register
Save the date! The Central Ohio VMUG UserCON for 2019 is April 2nd, 2019. 
The agenda hasn’t been published yet; but be sure to register as there will certainly be opportunities to:
Follow @covmug and #COVMUG on Twitter for the latest event updates.
