Introduction Last week VMware has release VMware Cloud Director (VCD) 10.3.3. After a small wait from the previous 10.3.2a version but this version was the one I was lingering for! This release would have fixed a lot of the operational issues we have on the environment, which I will post …
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 …
The problem In my homelab I’m using a server which contains both Gigabit and 10GbE NICs. When I first deployed ESXi version 7.0U1 the list of devices looked like this.
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Name PCI Device Driver Admin Status Link Status Speed Duplex MAC Address MTU Description ------ ------------ -------- ------------ ----------- ----- ------ ----------------- ---- ----------- vmnic0 0000:02:00.0 nmlx4_en Up Down 0 Half xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx 1500 Mellanox Technologies MT27500 Family [ConnectX-3] vmnic1 0000:03:00.0 igbn Up Up 1000 Full xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx 2018 Intel Corporation I211 Gigabit Network Connection vmnic2 0000:04:00.0 igbn Up Down 0 Half xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx 2018 Intel Corporation I211 Gigabit Network Connection |
In this system the Mellanox isn’t connected to a switch (yet). So I didn’t notice this straight away. But …
The coming months I’ll be focussing a lot on education and certification and for this purpose having access to a lab environment is crucial. Now, I used to have the luxury of having a couple of blade servers at work that I could use for this but as I switched …
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 how useful this can be. In previous versions of vSphere, …
Introduction vSphere 7.0 with Kubernetes is going to be released soon! The announcement just went live today during the “Modern Apps Virtual Event”. A couple of weeks ago I followed multiple sessions regarding the new VMware and vSphere product releases and updates and witnessed all its beauty. Today the NDA …
As of today I am extremely proud to announce that Rudolf and I have both been awarded for our second year being a VMware vExpert! We just received the news! We are going to continue writing blogposts to help the community and spread our knowledge around the globe. We want …
In November and December 2019, Microsoft released a few new patches just like any other month to patch certain issues in Windows Server 2012. It has recently come to my attention that these patches seem to break Windows Server 2012 virtual machines! They appear to cause a reboot loop, which …
Sadly I didn’t make the cut back in March. But I made it this round. I’m honored to be accepted in VMware’s vExpert program. And I will continue to support the vCommunity by blogging at vCloudvision.com which is now 100% powered by vExperts. ?
vCloud Director Extensibility Experience Day Today was a day with just one lab – a lab in which we tried out the vCloud Director Extensibility features leveraging vRealize Orchestrator. This was a day filling lab so there wasn’t much else happening today. Since we haven’t worked that much with this …
