Control NSX using Log Insight webhooks and a Lego Mindstorms robot
[Updated 26-03: Added the NSX API call script] During the last few years we’ve had some fun demos at the Dutch VMUG Usercon. We’ve automated a coffee machine using vRealize Orchestrator. We did a vRealize Automation challenge where competitors could control a lightsaber when they…
Jeeves – your own VMGuru
Everyone is talking about it: Chatbots are going to be the next bing thing. If you don’t believe me, check out the Forbes article on why chatbots will be your new best friend. A quote from that article: Chatbots came on the scene in 2011…
Containers Containers Containers even in 2017?
Last year, Docker suddenly was everywhere. Containers were the new thing. Scalable, fast and agile. The future is boxed! Last month, vSphere Integrated Containers went 1.0, so VMware is ready for this new way of life. But is it really the new way of life? Some…
Melvin and Cloudia reviewing the VMGuru Year
Another year rushed by for the VMGuru crew and what a strange year it has been with several highs and lows. We have seen half of the VMGuru crew members performing a human vMotion to a new exiting and sometimes uncertain challenge. Martijn started as a Systems…
vRealize Automation 7.2 released
Yesterday vRealize Automation 7.2 was released by VMware. vRealize Automation is the automation platform by VMware. The first time I heard about it I was a bit puzzled. Don’t we all already do automation? Isn’t that the basics of what IT is? It depends on…
VMWorld 2016 Europe Must-See Sessions
VMworld 2016 US is well on it’s way. For those of you who have missed the live stream of the keynote, here’s the recording (about 1 hour 20 minutes). One of the key topics is Cross-Cloud Services. Moving your workloads around in different clouds to enable…
NSX security group misconfiguration
Recently I ran into an issue in which the tenant was not able to connect to its virtual machine from their office network. The tenant environment sits on an infrastructure build with VMware NSX and the vRealize suite. Now the solution to this problem wasn’t…
Please stop stretching your VLANs, virtualize your network
Network admins hate stretching VLANs across data centers, we absolutely hate it. It causes potential instability on a inter-data center scope, destroys our isolated fault domains; something happens with VLAN X on site A, it also can take down site B (unless you take special…
Virtualize Your VoIP Phone System? Yes You Can!
It’s summer and during summer, VMware Netherlands traditionally organizes the VMware Summerschool. I love to be there as you get to talk to people you normally wouldn’t meet. So, recently during the coffee break I found myself having a conversation I haven’t had for quite some…
Update your knowledge at VMware’s Summerschool
It has become sort of a tradition; The VMware Summerschool at the VMware offices in Utrecht, Netherlands. Every year during the summer, VMware’s SE’s get up and in front of a whiteboard and beamer to talk about the old and the new things in VMware’s…
New release vSphere HTML5 Web Client fling
A few months ago a new fling was released called “vSphere HTML5 Web Client“, this fling can be used in conjunction to the standard vCenter interfaces. The fling client is build on HTML5 and javascript and is deployed as a OVA. When they first released…
PowerShell Friday: Retrieving IP addresses for VMs
As I explained in the article about ExtensionData each VM object has a lot of information stored. If you want to know the IP addresses of a particular VM you can use PowerCLI to get those properties. You can get the IP addresses for VMs…
Dutch VMUG UserCon 2016 impressions
Last week the dutch VMUG UserCon was held again and it was amazing. I think it’s safe to say that it again was the biggest VMUG usergathering in the world for the second year in a row with around 1.000 attendees. Virtualization clearly has a…
Join us at Dutch VMUG UserCon 2016!
There are times when I’m especially proud to be Dutch. Last year, the Dutch VMUG UserCon was the largest VMUG gettogether in the world. Almost 1.000 particpants gathered in the venue in Den Bosch to exchange knowledge, listen to sessions, network and enjoy a drink….
PowerShell Friday: ExtensionData
Did you know that VMware stores a lot of information about your virtual machines? And that you can retrieve all that data with PowerCLI? When you retrieve an object from vCenter or your ESXi host you get a lot of information. When you use Get-VM…
