Graham

Graham works closely with VMware & Microsoft solutions. He is a VMware Certified Implementation Expert, 8x VMware vExpert & a VMware User Moderator on the official VMware VMTN forums. Feel free to reach out via Twitter @VirtualG.uk or email: contact@virtualg.uk
VMware vSAN

VMware vSAN 6.5 & iSCSI Targets

Graham
It's true that VMware vSAN is getting more feature rich on each release. One interesting new feature of vSAN 6.5 is the iSCSI target service. In a nutshell you can now create iSCSI targets and LUNs on vSAN storage and present them to servers external to the vSAN cluster. Note...
vSphere

Virtual Machine Encryption in vSphere 6.5 (Video)

Graham
After a bit of digging around, I finally found a really quick way to test out the new VM Encryption feature in vSphere 6.5 with thanks to William Lam. Note that this is not for production use. I've included a video below which shows you how to setup VM encryption...
vSphere

vSphere Replication & Self Signed Certificates

Graham
This week I noticed that vSphere Replication had stopped working on both primary and secondary sites. I logged into the VAMI for both vSphere Replication appliances and noticed that the self signed certificates for had both expired. Closer inspection showed that on a default installation, the self signed certificates are...
VMware vSANvSphere

vSphere 6.5 Videos

Graham
vSphere 6.5 went GA on the 15th November 2016. Here are my videos covering basic installation to some of the more advanced topics. I'll be adding more as time permits. VMware vSAN 6.5 iSCSI Configuration https://youtu.be/8H_FNfyka7k VMware vSphere VCSA 6 5 High Availability (vCenter High Availability) Install and failover https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulJU_hSs0eM&index=6&list=PLu-PYOxDwy0PGzkKTGROYQeGVw7KHfAOI Windows vCenter Server...
CertificationvSphere

VCAP-DCV Deploy – Exam Simulator – FREE

Graham
For those taking exam 3V0-21.20  (also known as Advanced Deploy VMware vSphere 6.7) then you'll know that the exam is a real lab that you need to fix issues in or change configuration based on given scenarios. This post runs through how to use version 2 of my VCAP Deploy...
CertificationvSphere

VCAP6-DCV GA Design Exam Experience

Graham
After a month of pure dedication and late nights, I passed the VCAP6-DCV Design Exam!! Exam Overview The exam is 3 hours long, my exam center would not allow water so make sure you are fully hydrated before you go in There are 18 questions made up of drag /drops...
vSphere

Find zombie VMDKs & VMs with RVTools for FREE!

Graham
Someone recently asked me if there was something available to locate zombie VMDKs and I recalled a few years back when I was looking for exactly the same thing. A quick search through my old laptop's download folder brought up RVTools. Back then it was particularly useful for locating zombie VMDKs and...
vSphere

Where are my memory modules located inside an ESXi host?

Graham
I found this very simple one liner for showing which DIMM slots are populated and which ones are free inside an ESXi host. I have not yet found a way to do this via ESXCLI but this will do for now: smbiosDump | grep 'Size|Speed|Location' Running the above will produce...
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