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
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. If you were unable to attend or missed a session because of scheduling conflicts you can now view them on YouTube! Check out the following 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
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 means checking out the release notes, new maximums (if any), interoperability matrices and relevant KB articles. I’ll also check some third party products because I Read more
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 it would be nice to get out of my comfort zone and try something new for a change. Since I was experimenting with Packer in Read more
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 out there were a LOT of VMs that had very little free disk space left. Now this seemed like a perfect opportunity to apply some 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
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 you need a special virtual appliance for a nested ESXi server? The most essential components are already there especially with ESXi 6.7: VMware tools Native 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