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 →
This part of my blog will be available during the christmas time and will be updated daily as I want to create an advent calender. [...more...] First post will be available on 1st of December. December 1st, 2018 December 2nd, 2018 December 3rd, 2018 December 4th, 2018 December 5th, 2018 December 6th, 2018 December 7th,... Continue Reading →
Last week I came up on a situation on my homelab where one of my VMware ESXi host was not responsive and not connected to the vCSA, even though the virtual machines running on it were not affected. Trying to connect to the host's website I received this error: I connected to the host by... Continue Reading →
Using the newly released version vCSA and ESXi 6.7U1, it is possible to manage VMware Tools and VM Hardware updates directly from the HTML5 panel. A few notes from myself, as I was asked multiple time during the last few weeks about the option and how it will be implemented into the HTML5 client. As... Continue Reading →
I won't forget to double, double, double check a local NTP service ever again. Everyone knows, if something does not work, it's DNS. I agree. But almost as important as the reverse/forward DNS lookup is the correct time given by a local NTP service. I learned it the really hard way and will probably tell... Continue Reading →
Earlier this month I started a Twitter poll and asked the community if anyone would be interested in some kind of community gathering besides the VMUG or any other event. I thought about this because, looking at the western of Germany, there seems to be a huge gap with a lot of potential. There are... Continue Reading →
