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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
