Recently we’ve had to revert to migrating a customer through cloning virtual machines to a lun on a ‘migration storage box’ after which we had to do an import in our vCenter environment. Normally I just Veeam for ease in the whole migration process but this time there were circumstances …
Just a couple of months after the release of vSphere 6.7 Update 1, VMware today announced a new update to its vSphere platform in the form of vSphere 6.7 Update 2. This new update brings a lot of enhancements and new features to the table that will provide the users …
Recently I got asked to create an overview for a license audit we were receiving. Nothing all to difficult is what I thought at first. But then I had a look at the requirements and they were asking for the ESXi install date for each host. Well when you have …
A couple of days ago Karl Childs posted a blog on the VMware Education blog website about some changes that are beeing implemented effective immediately in regards to VMware certifications. VMware certifications such as the VMware Certified Professional (VCP) program has always required us to recertify after two years. If …
Recently we had a customer asking us if we could change the timeout on the vSphere Web Client because they had some issues with the default 120 minutes / 2 hours that are configured in the vCenter settings. Changing this is rather simple and can be done in the following …
This script is also already from a while ago, but I’m posting this because it might be useful to anyone that is currently investigating virtual machine limits and reservation performance issues on their environment or are simply looking for a quick check on their environment. Configuring limits on virtual machine …
A couple of months ago we had to create hundreds of portgroups on a dvSwitch on one of our environments. Doing this manually is pretty tedious, even if you only have to create the portgroup and add a VLAN tag. In this particular case I also had to set the …
A few weeks ago we upgraded our vRealize Automation environments to version 7.5. This version has a lot going on so I thought it would be nice to discuss some of the new features and enhancements that have made its way into the new version of the vRealize Automation portal. …
The other night I got paged up that one of our VCSA servers had a full partition. After looking into it, it seems that the /storage/archive/ partition was filled up. When browsing through the partition I quickly noticed that the “vpostgres” folder was the culprit. It was all filled up …
Today we had an issue with one of our older vSphere ESXi hosts which is version 5.5. The vSphere environment which holds these ESXi hosts is version 6.5. This should not be a problem in general but we did encounter some kind of error on the hosts which were being …
