What hypervisor is my linux VM running on?
Lately I've been responsible for migrating quite some VMs from a Hyper-V platform to vSphere. One of the applications I migrated started experiencing some intermittent…
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Rudolf Kleijwegt
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NLVMUG UserCon 2019 recordings available on YouTube
On March 21 Bryan and myself attended the Dutch VMUG UserCon 2019. It was a very busy day filled with a lot of interesting content.…
vSphere 6.7 U2 support across platforms
Now that vSphere 6.7 update 2 is released I can start the process of reviewing all relevant resources that come with a new version. This…
Provision vSphere VMs using Terraform
Recently I got asked to provision a number of identical VMs. Now usually I resort to PowerCLI for this task, but this time I thought…
PowerCLI function to increase VM storage capacity
We recently had a customer that we onboarded for a managed service. Part of this service is that we monitor the OS and it turned…
Creating a nested ESXi server in vCloud Director
Back in 2018 William Lam released a special virtual appliance version of the ESXi 6.7 image as an OVA. Now you might wonder why would…
Update VM storage timestamp using PowerCLI
The company I work for uses the vSphere API for all kinds of purposes. Usually this works great however one of our programs returned some…
Automate VM image creation using Packer
Recently someone sent out a request via Twitter on how to automatically update images. I suggested using Hashicorp Packer but not with the default vmware-iso…
Testing vCenter Simulator in Docker Playground
On the 31st of december I read a very nice post over at brianbunke.com on running a simulated vCenter with govcsim. Simulated is maybe a…
VMworld Europe – Day 2
Today was the second day of VMworld Europe 2018! We started the day of with the General Session with Pat Gelsinger doing most of the…