Guides, fixes and news from my VMware lab. Covers vSphere, VCF, vSAN, NSX and Aria, plus Broadcom licensing changes and my yearly end-of-life rundowns.
Quite a lot has been going on in April for VMware, so I've put a post together with notable news: vSphere - Next version The next version of vSphere looks to be coming soon. There…
While everyone upgrades to the latest release of vSphere be aware that there are a few minor catches along the way. A couple I've seen this week include the vague error "An…
There is so much talk about cloud now, but what what really is "cloud" - In short, I prefer a definition/feature set along these lines: A public cloud should have the following:…
From my last post about checking if your VMs are backed up with a PowerCLI script, I have been asked how to add this as a scheduled task. The answer is fairly simple. On a Windows…
A quick post on using Powershell & PowerCLI to email you a list of VMs that are not getting backed up. Also functionality to exclude certain VMs from the check (those that you do…
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VMware's vRealize suite, combined with management packs from Blue Medora is a set of cloud management tools that focus on automating, planning & monitoring both on-prem cloud…
As of vSphere 6.7 VMware no longer supports VMFS version 3 datastores. If a vSphere ESXi 6.7 host mounts a VMFS3 datastore, it will be automatically upgraded to VMFS 5. This…
This is a very quick post on the use of SSL certificates and vSphere. As of vSphere 6.0 and beyond VMware have provided a VMCA (VMware Certificate Authority) which by default…
Spectre & Meltdown are hot topics at the moment but how does this affect VMware solutions? VMware have provided detail on their stance on the situation via mostly two KB articles;…