What’s New for VMware Validated Solutions – Edition #13 (February 2023)

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Last Updated: 28-Feb-2023 Welcome to Edition #13 of the What's New for VMware Validated Solutions, today we announced the following updates: Added enhancements to Cloud-Based Intelligent Operations for VMware Cloud Foundation Added enhancements to Cloud-Based Automation for VMware Cloud Foundation Cloud-Based Intelligent Operations for VMware Cloud Foundation Detailed Design Updates to the following design decisions: …

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Generating Password Policy Reports for VMware Cloud Foundation

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In a recent blog (see here) I provided an overview of Password Policy Configuration for VMware Cloud Foundation, in this blog we will take a deep dive on using Invoke-PasswordPolicyManager to generate the password policy reports. The Invoke-PasswordPolicyManager cmdlet is part of the PowerShell Module for VMware Validated Solutions and provides the ability to generate …

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Password Policy Configuration for VMware Cloud Foundation Overview

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Password Policy Configuration may not be that important to some but for security teams it’s critical for ensuring their organization is protected. If you have ever looked deep into this area when it comes to VMware Cloud Foundation and the components involved you will quickly realize that unfortunately VMware today does not make things easy …

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What’s New for VMware Validated Solutions – Edition #12 (January 2023)

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Last Updated: 31-Jan-2023 Welcome to Edition #12 of the What's New for VMware Validated Solutions, today we announced the following updates: New Solution - Cloud-Based Intelligent Operations for VMware Cloud Foundation Enhancements to Password Policy Configuration within Identity and Access Management for VMware Cloud Foundation Release of PowerValidatedSolutions v2.0.0, our PowerShell module developed to ensure …

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Generating Health Reports for VMware Cloud Foundation

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VMware Cloud Foundation is an advanced hybrid cloud platform that provides a complete set of software-defined services for compute, storage, networking, security and cloud management to run enterprise apps. By definition this means that VMware Cloud Foundation consists of a number products from across the VMware portfolio but how do you know your platform is …

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What’s New for VMware Validated Solutions – Edition #11 (November 2022)

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Last Updated: 29-Nov-2022 Welcome to Edition #11 of the What's New for VMware Validated Solutions, today we announced the following updates: Added improvements to the implementation prerequisites across all VMware Validated Solutions Added improvements to PowerShell functions for Site Protection and Disaster Recovery for VMware Cloud Foundation Added certificate replacement procedures for Cloud-Based Automation for …

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Configure Password Expiration Policy for NSX Manager/Edge Nodes for a VMware Cloud Foundation Instance

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With the release of VMware Cloud Foundation 4.5.0 a welcome enhancement to Password Management comes the notification capability, with this new feature we have introduced firstly a new banner that appears in the SDDC Manager UI when an account is identified as disconnected either as a result of the password expiring or the component going …

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Fixing Expired Passwords on Workspace ONE Access

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By default Workspace ONE Access passwords (root, sshuser) are set to expire after 60 days. Unless you rotate passwords on regular basis you may have overlooked this default configuration and suddenly find yourself locked out of being able to perform management tasks. VMware Cloud Foundation provides the ability to perform scheduled or manual password rotations …

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End-to-End Automation of Private Cloud Automation Validated Solution

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If your not already familiar with the Private Cloud Automation for VMware Cloud Foundation validated solution it’s primary purpose is to implement a modern cloud automation platform that delivers self-service automation, DevOps for infrastructure, and orchestration. This is achieved through the deployment of vRealize Automation and the integration with one of more VMware Cloud Foundation …

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What’s New for VMware Validated Solutions – Edition #10 (October 2022)

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Welcome to Edition #10 of the What's New for VMware Validated Solutions, today we announced the following updates: Added support for VMware Cloud Foundation 4.5.0 Added automation based on the PowerValidatedSolutions v1.9.0 release Release of PowerValidatedSolutions v1.9.0, our PowerShell module developed to ensure robustness, consistency, and accelerate implementation Added Support for VMware Cloud Foundation 4.5.0 …

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