With the worldwide outbreak of the coronavirus the Folding@home project has seen a massive influx of new users donating their computer’s idle CPU cycles to run simulations of protein dynamics in order to help find treatments for diseases such as coronavirus, cancer, alzheimer’s, and more. The people of VMware were …
Introduction vSphere 7.0 with Kubernetes is going to be released soon! The announcement just went live today during the “Modern Apps Virtual Event”. A couple of weeks ago I followed multiple sessions regarding the new VMware and vSphere product releases and updates and witnessed all its beauty. Today the NDA …
As of today I am extremely proud to announce that Rudolf and I have both been awarded for our second year being a VMware vExpert! We just received the news! We are going to continue writing blogposts to help the community and spread our knowledge around the globe. We want …
A while ago I was working on a very very old VMware View environment. Yes, you’ve read this correctly, a VMware View environment. This is even from before the product was officially called “VMware Horizon View” back in 2015. So, the subject I was working on for the customer, but …
In November and December 2019, Microsoft released a few new patches just like any other month to patch certain issues in Windows Server 2012. It has recently come to my attention that these patches seem to break Windows Server 2012 virtual machines! They appear to cause a reboot loop, which …
Recently I’ve been involved with a project that required the use of physical mode raw device mappings (pRDM) on vSphere. We weren’t thrilled with the prospect to deploy these pRDMs. Now why would that be you might ask? Well, as a cloud service provider you want maximum agility when it …
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.
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{@{Name=Hard disk 1; CapacityGB=49,875}, @{Name=Hard disk 2; CapacityGB=49,875}} |
Fixing this for …
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 …
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 …
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 …
