Whilst performing some Storage vMotion activities recently, I discovered an issue with 3 virtual machines in my environment where they were unable to perform a vMotion of any type due to the Migrate option being greyed out in vCenter. I believe that this actually occurred because the 3 virtual machines in question had been in the middle of a Storage […]
In a slight change from my normal blog posts, I thought that it would be good to take a look at the emerging tech around autonomous cars. I’m sure that autonomous cars will continue to evolve and will become the main type of car purchased in the future. In reading a little more about autonomous cars, I’ve discovered that there […]
I stumbled across this blog announcement the other day and found it quite enlightening. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/transforming-your-vmware-environment-with-microsoft-azure/ Basically, the first part of the blog post is all about a frictionless migration path from VMware to Azure – being available from 27th November 2017 – unfortunately no one really answers the question about whether this will finally allow a virtual machine configured with […]
Firstly, I’d like to thank Bence Bertalan for the inspiration for this blog post (you can see his original blog post here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/qucik-tip-vmware-bringing-back-semi-dead-esxi-live-bence-bertalan/). I have actually experienced this issue myself recently with a host that was still running ESXi 6.0. It appears that some activities had taken place on the host which resulted in the storage connection to a LUN becoming […]
I know that a lot of things have been discussed about Custom Attributes and Tags across various blogs but I thought that I would just share some scripts that I have been using for a particular scenario that other people may also run into. In the environment I was looking after, we had over 1000 virtual machines which had been […]
As I sit here on the last day of VMworld 2017 in Barcelona, I’m thinking about how good the conference was. Lots of people will be focusing on the technical aspects of the conference, all of the announcements etc., so I thought that I would take a slightly different approach and look at the non technical side of things… The […]
Quick post this one, I discovered this script when I was looking to register VMs as part of a temporary DR solution, unfortunately I cannot remember where I found the script and therefore I apologise to the original creator. The idea behind the script is to search through the datastore or datastores that you select, discover the location of the .vmx […]
I know that there have been a number of blog posts in the past about creating inventories of VMs within an environment, showing various details about the environment… I have even used some of them myself in the past. The script that I have pulled together and enhanced (from various sources) was designed to provide information that can be used […]
I hope that the following information will assist people to pass their VMware Certified Advanced Professional 6 – Data Centre Virtualisation Design exam. This is work in progress and therefore will be updated over the coming weeks, so please come back regularly to discover the latest updates. Exam information Exam Number: 3V0-622 Exam Price: Approx. $400 USD Exam Duration: 175 […]
This simple test is designed to allow you to test to see if you know what items are classed as Risks, Requirements, Constraints or Assumptions as part of the preparation work for the VCAP6-DCV Design Exam. Please note that the VCAP6-DCV Design exam consists only of Drag and Drop questions and Visio style design questions… there are NO multiple choice […]