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 Read more…
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 Read more…
Session 1: Cloudhealth – Deep Dive Since Cloudhealth was acquired by VMware in Q3 2018, some changes took place. We wanted to follow up on our knowledge of this product so that we can decide if this is something we should have a look at for our own customers. For Read more…
Session 1: vCloud Director as a central point of management and Extensible Service Provider Platform Since vCloud director is now able to be used as a proxy for dedicated vCenter’s and the use cases for the Extensibility Framework are practically limitless we were eager to follow this session to see Read more…
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…
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…
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…