Updating VMware Tools and Virtual Hardware on VMs with vSphere Update Manager 6.5

We will be able to continue with another automatic update process, and it is only once we have all the hosts updated to the version 6.5, We will need to update (in this order) VMware Tools and Virtual Machine Hardware. The latter perhaps more optional. We will do all this through Update Manager which, as we know, is embedded in the vCenter Server Appliance 6.5

Bitdefender GravityZone: First contact

I begin with the great Xavier Genestós a series of posts about Bitdefender GravityZone, A great security solution that protects our environment against threats of any kind. In his first post we saw how to install the management appliance, and appliance installation for vShield or NSX environments. In this post we will see a next step, how to install an agent for non-vShield or NSX environments and a first look at the control panel structure!

Getting data from the Fitbit bracelet using Python and displaying graphs in Grafana

How is it going? Today we are going with a document that will surely be of interest to all those who have a Fitbit bracelet, with which you already know that we can obtain data about our lifestyle and such… Well, if you want to exploit this information and see it in beautiful graphics, This is your document! Using a Python script we will obtain the measurements that interest us and store them in a MySQL database, and then with Grafana paint the graphics that interest us!

Updating Hosts with vSphere Update Manager 6.5

As we already know, Update Manager is the VMware product that will keep the vSphere virtual infrastructure fully up to date. With UM we will be able to update the patches or versioning of ESXi hosts in a centralized and fully manageable way, as well as Virtual Machines or Virtual Appliances! We will see as an example how to update a host of the version 6.0 from ESXi to the 6.5 Update 1, for this, without moving from the chair, we will upload an ESXi image to Update Manager and install it to the hosts that need it!