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…
A few weeks ago we upgraded our vRealize Automation environments to version 7.5. This version has a lot going on so I thought it would be nice to discuss some of the new features and enhancements that have made its way into the new version of the vRealize Automation portal. Read more…
The other night I got paged up that one of our VCSA servers had a full partition. After looking into it, it seems that the /storage/archive/ partition was filled up. When browsing through the partition I quickly noticed that the “vpostgres” folder was the culprit. It was all filled up Read more…
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 bit overstated as it only contains a subset of the API. A vCenter API mocker is a probably better description. Now the nice thing about Read more…
Today we had an issue with one of our older vSphere ESXi hosts which is version 5.5. The vSphere environment which holds these ESXi hosts is version 6.5. This should not be a problem in general but we did encounter some kind of error on the hosts which were being Read more…
The other day we had to use our Veeam environment together with a customers vSphere environment to migrate, well actually replicate in Veeam terminologies, a couple of virtual machines to our environment. The vSphere environment was pretty new, which we don’t see that much with our customers. The version was Read more…
Recently we’ve been discovering some bugs in one of our environments. One of which I will discuss in this blogpost. This might seem like a small issue but if you use VMware GSS often it can be troublesome if you want to quickly create a support bundle of your environment. Read more…
On thursday most VMworld visitors are already headed home. The crowds are less, breakout sessions are no longer full and it there are no lines for the escalators anymore. Even though this might be true for some, Rudolf and I started the event again at 9 AM because we wanted Read more…
General Session The General Session started of with Sanjay Poonen delivering some numbers regarding savings you as a company can realize when you implement VMware’s software offerings such as vSAN or NSX into your IT environments. After this he briefly mentioned a new project called Skyline, a proactive support service Read more…
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 talking. VMworld Europe 2018 General Session After an opening statement by Jean-Pierre Brulard it was Pat Gelsinger who took the stage. Pat celebrated 20 years Read more…