Personal Blog about vAdventures
I am currently working on a fully new homelab environment running on Dell Poweredge hardware and considered the implementation of a plugin into my VMware vCenter server. Looking into other solutions it shows, in my opinion, that there is no software/hardware which is as tightly cooperating as Dell and VMware with their products and the... Continue Reading →
After updating my homelab to the latest version I stumbled across a new feature which may not have that much attention it should have. The renamed Lifecycle Manager does have the ability to plan and precheck the vCenter server appliance update itself through an "Update Planner". It also does compatibility checks for already installed products... Continue Reading →
Included in the newest release of Veeam Backup and Replication v10 a new feature was introduced to migrate VMs from a Hyper-V Backup to a VMware Cluster. To learn more about this feature and the highlights click HERE! This is a great opportunity to migrate your workload during a hardware (and software) refresh from Hyper-V... Continue Reading →
I recently needed to change a *.vmdk size of an VM which had created an error saying: Reconfigure virtual machine Status: Invalid or unsupported virtual machine configuration. vSphere Replication does not support changing the length of a replicated disk. Actually, this VM was replicated using vSphere Replication in the past but it has been... Continue Reading →
Disclamer: The following steps regarding the repointing of the VxRail Manager to a new PSC are not supported nor official and should be performed under supervision of trained professionals / certified engineers and/or in a training environment! These steps were performed in my own lab and should not be performed in a production infrastructure without... Continue Reading →
I was facing the following situation: VxRail Cluster Version 4.7.1xx external vCSA 6.7 U1 external PSC 6.7 U1 Goal was to update the system to the newest VxRail version 4.7.300, converge the PSC into the vCSA and update vCSA to 6.7 U3b. First things first, check the compatibility guide for issues and supported update path.... Continue Reading →
Like last year I am starting to organize the next vBeer meetup in Düsseldorf; Germany. This time we'll have a seat at "Die Kasematten" directly located at the river shore. As the vExpert second half application are open until the 12th of July I'll be happy if I can answer questions about the advantages of... Continue Reading →
I've been into VMware for quite a while now. And into storage products also. So it is quite normal that VMware vSAN caught my interest immediately. But it is challenging sometimes, to explain in an simple and easy way, how it works and what the benefits of vSAN are depending on the knowledge of the... Continue Reading →
I do have the feeling that, while promoting the fully supported HTML5 client in vSphere 6.7u1, more and more customers are curious about the features and benefits in this release. In this blog post I want to share a few informations about an added feature which I think is underrated and most people do not... Continue Reading →
Just a quick command I used. Maybe it will be useful for someone as well. I thought about the easiest way to check for all active and standby uplink ports on all vSphere Distributed Switch portgroups in my datacenter, for documentation purposes. You could easily check the settings on each portgroup by navigating to the... Continue Reading →
