Session 1: vCloud Director as a central point of management and Extensible Service Provider Platform Since vCloud director is now able to be used as a proxy for dedicated vCenter’s and the use cases for the Extensibility Framework are practically limitless we were eager to follow this session to see Read more…
Today was the first day of VMware EMPOWER in Lisbon, Portugal! We were fortunate enough to be able to go and attend this conference. This conference is more or less the same as the VMware VMworld conference with the difference that basically all content is targeted at VMware Service Providers Read more…
Recently we’ve had some weird issues on one of our customers vCenter Servers. For starters the vMotion and Storage vMotion features weren’t working anymore because of time-outs. Which is weird and something I’ve never seen before. So we started troubleshooting the VCSA server and noticed that it couldn’t retrieve the Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…