The other day I was patching a couple of hosts on one of our environments. All worked out fine until I got one host that refused to update from vSphere ESXi 6.5 U1 to ESXi 6.5 U3. Throughout the day this host actually gave me loads of different errors. In …
Recently we have been having (extremely) slow boot times for a couple of hosts that we’ve been using for a new customer. We actually didn’t really notice this in the beginning, until we added hosts to the existing cluster and the reboot for that host took over 3 hours! The …
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 …
On March 21 Bryan and myself attended the Dutch VMUG UserCon 2019. It was a very busy day filled with a lot of interesting content. If you were unable to attend or missed a session because of scheduling conflicts you can now view them on YouTube! Check out the following …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Back in 2018 William Lam released a special virtual appliance version of the ESXi 6.7 image as an OVA. Now you might wonder why would you need a special virtual appliance for a nested ESXi server? The most essential components are already there especially with ESXi 6.7: VMware tools Native …
Recently I got asked to create an overview for a license audit we were receiving. Nothing all to difficult is what I thought at first. But then I had a look at the requirements and they were asking for the ESXi install date for each host. Well when you have …
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. …
