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…
Getting a list of VDS Portgroups from the vCenter Database
Disclaimer: this is not something for production environments (at least, I hope for your sake, GSS should be able to fix it), but more for test or homelab environments. Say your vCenter is broken. And I mean really really broken to the point where you…
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 Suite just became a lot easier with Lifecycle Manager
The waiting is over! VMware released the magic sauce, vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager. vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager or vRSLCM is a standard part of the vRealize Suite and it is included with a vRealize Suite license. vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager allows you to quickly install and configure a…
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…
VMworld 2017 Hot News – Building Tomorrow
And just as you think it cannot be better, faster and become more interesting you find out it can! VMware announced several new updates to its products on VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas. According to Pat Gelsinger, CEO VMware, VMware’s goal is to connect people…
Why you want to discover services in your environment
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could discover services running in each VM and then automatically build relationships or dependencies between services from different VMs, based on the network communication? Only then could you answer the following questions: 1. Which services are running on my VM’s?…
How to solve your problem in 9 steps
One of the most important things in troubleshooting in general is that you follow a system or workflow. You have to attack the problem methodically and analytical. There’s nothing worse than trying all kinds of things and realize suddenly that it works and not knowing…
Build Your Own NAS
So you want storage for your home lab, but you don’t want to spend $1.000,- on an empty NAS box and still have to purchase disks for capacity. How about a “build your own”? There are numerous free and semi-free alternatives in the market. You…
The missing NSX security group
Earlier this week I ran into the following error “The requested object : securitygroup-xxx could not be found. Object identifiers are case sensitive.”. You can come across this error when you try to export your NSX firewall config. Or at the service composer at the top…
New releases, updates for vSphere and related
Yesterday was a big day on the release front. A lot of vSphere and related products received updates. I must admit I was pleasantly surprised by the large number of fixes in the various products and components. If you look at the release notes it…
How to define two NetFlow targets in vSphere VDS
Sorry, you actually can’t configure two Netflow targets in vSphere. ;-) HOWEVER! There’s a way around this limitation. Currently, the VDS only supports one Netflow target IP address to send NetFlow to. This limitation can cause some issues when you want to employ multiple Netflow…
How to specify a deployment target when using vRealize Automation
I regularly get the question ‘Can I specify a deployment target when using vRealize Automation?’. Most of the time this question comes up at customers who want to use vRealize Automation on top of a vSphere Metro Storage Cluster environment. For those of you that…
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…