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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.

2016

vSphere Replication & Self Signed Certificates

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…

vSphere1 min

vSphere 6.5 Videos

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…

VMware vSAN1 min

VCAP-DCV Deploy – Exam Simulator – FREE

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…

vSphere10 min

VCAP6-DCV GA Design Exam Experience

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…

vSphere2 min

Find zombie VMDKs & VMs with RVTools for FREE!

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…

vSphere1 min

Where are my memory modules located inside an ESXi host?

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…

vSphere2 min

VMware vSphere 6.5 – New features overview

VMware are soon releasing vSphere 6.5 to GA. The day it is released I'll be posting a series of posts to deep-dive into the main topics with videos to demonstrate new…

vSphere2 min

How to see where VM data / objects are located on VSAN

Once you've deployed VSAN and built a couple of VMs, you might create a few Virtual Machine Storage Policies but then wonder where exactly are those VM objects located? Let's say…

VMware vSAN1 min

Creating local SSO users and permissions within VMware VCSA 6.x

If you do not use a identity source such as LDAP or Active Directory, you can still create new user accounts on the SSO domain that you can assign different roles to within the…

vSphere1 min

How to find the physical NIC that a VM is using on VMware vSphere ESXi

Have you ever needed to work out which physical NIC (pNIC) on an ESXi host is being used by a Virtual Machine? Simply SSH to the host that the VM is runningon and run esxtop then…

vSphere1 min