Quick post of something I ran into this week. When creating new VMs it makes sense to create disks that have a certain size in GB. But sometimes when migrating workload from one platform to another you might see some funky hard disk sizes like this. {@{Name=Hard disk 1; CapacityGB=49,875}, Read more…
We recently noticed some hosts in our environment that show an alert triggered by ‘Status of other host hardware objects’. Upon further investigation it turned out that this was caused by the system event log (SEL) that is about to run out of space. Now if you don’t mind not Read more…
Today is the last day of VMworld 2019 Europe. Yesterday was all about the keynote with Bear Grylls giving us a very inspirational talk on how to face fears and situations in life. Next we went to some technical sessions which I blogged about yesterday. Today will be about catching Read more…
Today is the third day for VMworld Europe 2019! Yesterday was full of technical deep dives that were very interesting for me. In the evening it also got quite late at the “legendary’ Veeam party, but we are back at it this morning at 9 AM for the last General Read more…
Today is the second day of VMworld Europe 2019! Last night we closed out day one with some nice drinks at a local restaurant called “El Nacional”. After some rest during the night we are ready to take on the second day! The day started with the general session. General Read more…
Today is the first day of VMworld Europe 2019 in Barcelona! The team and I have been here since last saturday to prepare for the event and relax a little bit in Barcelona! So since we are all relaxed, lets kick of this first day! Since Monday isn’t actually the Read more…
It’s that time of the year again. VMworld Europe 2019 is just around the corner. In only a couple of weeks it’s going to start. This years theme is #makeyourmark. VMworld Europe 2019 is being held in Barcelona like previous years and will be held from the 4th until the Read more…
Recently I had to do just that when a customer I recently on-boarded to our vSphere platform was having issues creating a VSS-aware backup. Even a quiesced snapshot command failed with an error. This issue took quite some time to investigate. And I was lucky enough to have a support Read more…
Recently I had to upgrade a vCenter Server Appliance with embedded PSC from version 6.5 U2e to 6.7 U2c. It seemed a pretty straightforward process like the upgrades I’ve done before. But this time the upgrade failed because of an issue with the PostgreSQL database. I examined the logfiles and Read more…
If you, as a vSphere Administrator, regularly update a vSphere environment you should be using vSphere Update Manager. vSphere Update Manager is the tooling that VMware made so that you don’t have to install patches through the command line on each host, or do updates on each host separately! And Read more…