2019/05

Splunk Enterprise is an awesome platform for analyzing massive amounts of data at scale. Because of this, it’s a popular system for aggregating log data from VMware virtualization environments. Its flexibility and ability to search through significant quantities of log data at great speeds is why I’ve been utilizing it for years. Today I’m going to go over the process to integrate VMware Identity Manager (vIDM) as a SAML 2.0 identity provider (IdP) for Splunk Enterprise authentication.

Introduction In this short post, we will quickly review the process for installing Patch 1 to your existing vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager (vRSLCM) 2.1 deployment. The release notes for the patch are available in VMware KB 68067. How to Obtain the Patch You can directly download the patch within the vRSLCM interface or if your vRSLCM deployment does not have Internet access, you can download it from the VMware Patch Download Center.

Have you ever wished that you could automatically execute a custom workflow in response to an alert generated in vRealize Operations? In previous releases of vRealize Operations, there wasn’t an easy way of accomplishing this. While there were many actions that could be executed using the built-in VMware vSphere solution, there wasn’t an easy built-in method to execute custom actions. With the introduction of the VMware vRealize Operations Management Pack for vRealize Orchestrator, VMware has finally made this possible.