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Monitor vCAC with vCenter Log Insight
Install and configure vCenter Log Insight per the instructions below: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5y9o9WCx0A Windows does not natively send syslogs so you will need an agent to send the syslogs Download the syslog agent from the following http://www.syslogserver.com/download.html Browse to the folder you downloaded and unpacked the Datagram Syslog files to Run the Continue reading Monitor vCAC with vCenter Log Insight
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How to SSH to Public DNS name of AWS instances in vCAC
This example is assuming that vCAC is configured to provision Linux instances to an Amazon availability zone with a VPC configured with public and private subnets and that the Security group is configured to allow SSH traffic. For information on connecting to a private address refer to the following blog Continue reading How to SSH to Public DNS name of AWS instances in vCAC
How to SSH to Private DNS name of AWS instances in vCAC
Note: Connecting to AWS instances via SSH may require modifications to your organizations firewall or you may need to use a proxy server. This lesson is assuming you have direct access to the internet and to Amazon Web Services via the Putty SSH console. This lesson uses Putty.exe and Puttygen.exe. Continue reading How to SSH to Private DNS name of AWS instances in vCAC
How to use custom properties in Approval portal and e-mail
vCAC is a powerful and extensible cloud solution. Many of the features of the product are available out of the box. Today I will show you some quick and easy customizations you can make to tailor the solution to your organizations requirements. A common request from customers is to require Continue reading How to use custom properties in Approval portal and e-mail
How to copy files to/from AWS instances provisioned with vCAC
Note: Connecting to AWS instances via SSH may require modifications to your organizations firewall or you may need to use a proxy server. This lesson is assuming you have direct access to the internet and to Amazon Web Services via the Putty SSH console and WinSCP. This lesson uses Putty.exe, Continue reading How to copy files to/from AWS instances provisioned with vCAC
How to SSH to AWS instances provisioned with vCAC
Note: Connecting to AWS instances via SSH may require modifications to your organizations firewall or you may need to use a proxy server. This lesson is assuming you have direct access to the internet and to Amazon Web Services via the Putty SSH console. This lesson uses Putty.exe and Puttygen.exe. Continue reading How to SSH to AWS instances provisioned with vCAC
Best Practices for Creating Application Director Blueprints
A great resource for creating Application Director Blueprints.
Microsoft/Oracle Reality Check
As you most likely have heard, Microsoft and Oracle have reached an agreement to support Oracle technology running on Hyper-V and Azure. See the announcements from both companies websites and read more here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/Press/2013/Jun13/06-24WSNewsPR.aspx https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud/entry/oracle_and_microsoft_join_forces To summarize, Oracle has certified it’s software running on Oracle Linux or Windows Server that Continue reading Microsoft/Oracle Reality Check