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 Read more
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 Read more
Recently I’ve been getting an error on one of my replication jobs in one of our Veeam environments. The error message was a bit vague, and to be honest, I’ve never seen it anywhere behore. The error message was: If you browse to your log file location, usually under: You 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
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
The other day I was patching a couple of hosts on one of our environments. All worked out fine until I got one host that refused to update from vSphere ESXi 6.5 U1 to ESXi 6.5 U3. Throughout the day this host actually gave me loads of different errors. In Read more