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…
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.
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…

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…

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…

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…
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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…