Introduction A couple of weeks ago I started upgrading an environment that is configured with VMware vSAN. This on itself isn’t a difficult task nowadays. It does however become somewhat problematic if you receive all sorts of errors on the Read more
Ever so often you come around something that you haven’t seen before. Well this issue is one of those things. In our environments we use loads of metrics and properties that we gather from the vCenter Server and expose them Read more
Introduction Last week I encountered something after upgrading one of our environments. Since the updates we’ve been randomly getting errors on ESXi hosts that said “Status of other host hardware objects”. After troubleshooting a little bit it seemed this isn’t Read more
Lately I’ve been running some Storage Spaces Direct labs on VMware workstation. Part of doing labs means testing things until something breaks and as a countermeasure I tend to create snapshots frequently. Now this led me to an issue that Read more
In a previous post I posted back in december 2018 (CLICK HERE) we experienced issues while using on of our Veeam 9.5U3a environments together with VMware vSphere 6.7 U1. Since time has passed and Veeam has released support for vSphere Read more
Recently I was troubleshooting an environment that had some weird issues regarding the centralized VMware Tools repository that we configured. I will not bore you with these details, they will get explained in a future blogpost. But I also had Read more
Introduction to vSphere Tags VMware vSphere Tags is a way to attach metadata to VMware vCenter inventory objects to make it easier to find and recognize these objects. If you, like me, know about this functionality within vSphere, you know Read more
The 14th of April I wrote about the recently released VMware Security Advisory (VMSA) VMSA-2020-0006 also known under its CVE name by CVE-2020-3952. At the time of writing that blogpost there weren’t any Proof of Concepts (PoC’s) available to show Read more
Just a small ESXi Pro tip this time. I recently had a host that was experiencing issues and the management services were unresponsive. This is a major problem for troubleshooting as the esxcli commandset won’t work anymore at this stage. Read more
The 9th of April VMware issued a new VMware Security Advisory (VMSA) VMSA-2020-0006. This Security Advisory discusses CVE-2020-3952 in length. The vulnerability received a CVSSv3 score of 10 out of 10. Which means this is a very serious security issue. Read more