Introduction If you have worked or are working with NSX for vSphere (NSX-V) like me you are probably aware of the known bug that is present on some olders versions of NSX-V. Even the VMware Interoperability Matrix has a remark on this on all versions. The bug I am talking Read more…
Introduction Today we have something different from the ever growing VMware Cloud Director (VCD) blogposts on our blog! The other day I was upgrading a couple of ESXi hosts on one of our environments. This however did not work how it should, the ESXi host would not stage or remediate Read more…
Introduction Sometimes you can find some issues in older environment while upgrading that you haven’t seen before. This blogpost is about one that I’ve never seen before, but luckily is very easy to fix.We were upgrading the our environment from 6.7 U3x to 7.0 U3h. The upgrade eventually failed on Read more…
A feature that was introduced in vSphere 7 is the ability to use pcap (tcpdump) filters with pktcap-uw. One of the use cases where this can be useful is filtering for TCP control bits.
Have you ever found yourself wondering when a certain ESXi server was installed? In this case VMware GSS has your back. Check out KB 2144905 to find a simple esxcli command that dissects the hosts UUID to give you the installation date of that specific host. But what if you want to audit an entire cluster? This is where Powershell can help you out.
Today we have another UsageMeter issue I would like to discuss with everybody. I’ve been using UsageMeter since the old days so I’ve seen pretty much everything there is. But this time I was surprised to learn something new on these things. Last month while I was reporting our UsageMeter Read more…
The nested ESXi appliances that William Lam provides to the community are great resources for testing. But what about interoperability? Can you run a nested ESXi 7 VM on a ESXi 6.7 server? Unfortunately the answer is; it depends. We can’t all be early adopters right? I currently work in Read more…
Recently we had to upgrade a couple of our VMware Usage Meter environments. VMware Usage Meter is a tool that monitors all VMware based software solutions on the licences they are using. These numbers are used to report your license usage to your aggregator. This piece of software is mostly Read more…
Recently I found my self having to recover a VM that had most of it’s files deleted. They were removed by a script that was intended to clean up a staging datastore. Unfortunately the VM in question was left on that staging datastore and the script did it’s magic. The Read more…
Today I had an experience that was not very different than some of the ‘I was today years old’ memes which are floating on the web. I was working on a script to detach a LUN on all hosts within a cluster when I stumbled on a contribution from LucD Read more…