I am very honored to be named a VMware vExpert again... and yeah it was announced on Feb 17, 2022 however at that time somehow missed that email ;) I would like to Congratulations to all those who made in the vExpert 2022 list. VMware vExpert directory is available here.. https://vexpert.vmware.com/directory And my vExpert profile can be found here. Thank you, VMware ..read more

In this quick post would discuss the process and steps involved in rotating the expiring Azure AD application certification configured for AWS SSO login.  This is applicable where you have your AWS account SSO configured with Azure Active Directory and the associated application password is about to expire or maybe already expired. Before you start, make sure to have the appropriate AWS IAM and Azure AD permission or involve the teams having the required access to create an application certificate (in Azure) and rotate the same in AWS. Now, login to AWS and take the backup of currently us ..read more

I am very honored to be named a VMware vExpert again, this is my 7th…..Congratulations to all those who made in the vExpert 2021 list. VMware vExpert directory is available here.. https://vexpert.vmware.com/directory And my vExpert profile can be found here. Thank you VMware ..read more

In this post would discuss about the use of a custom domain name in Azure AD and how we can add one. Before going into that, first talk about what is Azure Tenant. It's a dedicated and trusted instance of Azure AD that's automatically created when you or your organization signs up for a Microsoft cloud service subscription, such as Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Intune, or Microsoft 365. An Azure tenant represents a single organization. Now what is Azure AD, it is Microsoft’s cloud-based identity and access management service, which helps your employees sign in and access resources in: External ..read more

In some circumstances, as part of troubleshooting, where you are having a connectivity-related issue or agent/extension status related issue and think that this could be related to the underlying host on which this VM is running we use VM redeployment option. This VM redeployment is nothing but a process of changing the physical host where your VM is currently running. When you redeploy a VM, Azure will shut down the VM, move the VM to a new host within the Azure infrastructure, and then power it back on, retaining all your configuration options and associated resources. If you are coming fr ..read more

In this blog post I would talk about Azure Recovery Services vault; this is the central component for backup or DR planning in Azure or even for on-prem if you are planning to use Azure Site recovery (ASR) for DR or Azure Backup. A Recovery Services vault is a storage entity in Azure that houses data it stores the backups and recovery points created over time. The Recovery Services vault also contains the backup policies that are associated with the protected virtual machines. You can use Recovery Services vaults to hold backup data for various Azure services such as IaaS VMs (Linux or Windows ..read more

In this blog post, we would discuss about the Azure resource hierarchy and how you can organize and manage them effectively from the point of Security, management, and tracking the cost. As we know that one needs to have an active Azure Subscription to create any resource in Azure account and once you have that then need to create a Resource Groups (RG) and then can create all other resources by putting them in RGs. Now think from the perspective of an Org having multiple subscriptions, that is where you need a Scope above subscription to efficiently manage them and that is where can use Azur ..read more

In this post, I would talk about the changes noticed during the nested vSphere 7 Lab deployment and when tried to initially access the vCenter using WebClient. For direct nested deployment where you are deploying the VCSA directly on VMware Workstation 13.x or later, its a three-step process but before we go into that, extract the VCSA7 iso file and locate the vcsa folder, there you will find the VCSA appliance OVA file. Right-click on vcsa open virtualization archive (ova) file and select open with VMware workstation or double click on this ova file => in subsequent screens follow the sc ..read more

In today’s world emergence of PaaS services have made end user life easy in building, maintaining and managing infrastructure however selecting the one suitable for need is a tough and challenging task. We often tend to select hybrid cloud solution for our customers thus providing them the cost efficient solutions with cutting edge technologies. The fundamental building block of any company is DATA  , without which no organization can think of survival. But to store and analyze this Data is the traditional approach of warehouse is not fit well because of many reasons. It co ..read more

I am very honored to be named a VMware vExpert again, this is my sixth time…..Congratulations to all those who made in the vExpert 2020 list. VMware vExpert directory is available here.. https://vexpert.vmware.com/directory And my vExpert profile can be found here. Thank you VMware ..read more