Update Manager baselines can contain a collection of patches, upgrades, bug fixes and third-party extensions. Baseline groups are collections of already defined baselines, and allows you to combine baselines to…

The Update Manger Utility is installed when you install Update Manager or UMDS, and can be found in the installation directory, by default – ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\Update Manager’. It can…

This post will look at covering a number of the Update Manager related objectives defined in the VCAP-DCA blueprint. Configure a Shared Repository Rather than have update manager download updates…

Update Manager Download Service (UMDS) is an optional component when you are deploying update manager. It is generally deployed in environments where it is undesirable for the server where update…

The Update Manager PowerShell library adds a set of cmdlets to PowerCLI which allow you to interact with Update Manager. There are cmdlets that allow you to download patches, create…

There are a number different ways in which to implement vDS depending on the scenario. As outlined in this VMware vDS Migration and Configuration document, using host profiles to deploy…

I’ve previously written about working with host profiles. This post will look more specifically at configuring storage using host profiles. You can configure ESXi host storage settings in a host…

I’ve written previously about working with the ESXi firewall, including changing rules and setting security levels. This post will have a look at troubleshooting the ESXi firewall. You can use…

My previous article covering the VCAP-DCA objectives looked at analysing a vSphere environment to determine which admission control policy to use on a HA cluster. To do so however, you need…

I’ve written about HA admission control recently, in this post, so there will be a little bit of overlap here. When choosing an admission control policy for a particular cluster,…