PowervRNI is now on PowerShell Gallery
PowerShell is about making things easy and consumable. Same goes for PowervRNI, making repetitive tasks in vRealize Network Insight easier and make it possible to extract information from vRNI. It’s not that easy to load a custom module into PowerShell though, you have to download…
How to build a Hyper-Available Infrastructure – Part 1: Overview
In today’s digital world we highly depend on services and their corresponding data to be available 24/7. We are frantic about our digital life and demand the underlying infrastructures to be Hyper-available. While traveling through the region to visit customers and partners, I am highly…
How to provide NSX firewall logging to individual tenants
Settings up firewall logging for VMware NSX isn’t to complicated, especially when using vRealize Log Insight. Seeing as Log Insight has a management pack available for NSX, which you can download directly from the market place. Most organisations are using some form of firewall logging. And…
How to harden the Veeam Backup Repository
The Veeam Backup Repository is a storage location used to store backup files, VM copies, configuration backups (BCO) and auxiliary replica files. There are several flavours of Veeam backup repositories, namely: Windows, Linux or Specific DeDuplication devices like the ExaGrid, EMC DataDomain or HPE StoreOnce….
Top Posts & Stats of 2017
2017 is almost done and 2018 is upon us. Looking back at this blog and its posts in 2017, I’d like to take this opportunity to thank you for going on the virtualisation journey with us! We’ve had another awesome year, filled with good content…
Keeping your applications Healthy and Secure
In the age of Digital Transformation, applications and the data they generate are the most important assets of your company. The application landscape is diverse. Traditional, client-server apps probably mixed with modern, containers and cloud native apps. And IT has to manage them all, keeping…
How to upgrade vCenter server appliance to 6.5
I know that vSphere 6.5 is out for some time now, but I did not got to upgrading my own homelab up until last week. So last week I started the upgrade and I ran into two situations in wich I had to do a…
The end of vCenter for Windows. Why invest time now?
As many of you probably know vCenter for Windows will be deprecated with the next major release. This means you still have time before you have no choice but to upgrade to the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA). But why wait with upgrading? If the technical benefits that the…
vROPS Tenant App for vCloud Director
Earlier today Erik pointed me to something I totally missed: vROPS Tenant App for VCD. It’s already out there for a month! You probably guessed what is is, since the name gives a lot of clues: It is a tenant app that you can use…
vRealize Business for Cloud report scheduling
One of the many new cool features of VMware vRealize Business for Cloud 7.3 is report scheduling. You can now schedule and email a custom report or the out-of-the-box reports to a set of recipients on daily, weekly or monthly basis. In this post I will…
Editing uneditable VMs in vCenter
Certain service appliances cannot be edited manually inside vCenter. For instance, VMware NSX Edge appliances are an example of such service appliances. These VMs are managed by the NSX Manager and you shouldn’t change their configuration manually. Normally. ;-) But sometimes you need to edit…
vRealize Log Insight: Internal vs External Load Balancer
Most of the times when talking about high availability or scaling a product like vRealize Log Insight is easily forgotten. This is a shame, especially since vRealize Log Insight is so easy to setup as a cluster with load balancing capabilities. You might wonder why it…