The VMware vExpert 2016 announcement has now been made, check out the list of vExperts on the blog page here: http://blogs.vmware.com/vmtn/2016/02/vexpert-2016-award-announcement.html I’m pleased to say that I have been recognised as a vExpert for the third year running. As they say in the announcement, the vExpert status is not a technical qualification but instead shows that the person has been […]
I thought that I would just post this up to let anyone know that the Express Patch to help fix the ESXi 6.0 CBT issue has now been released and is available under the following KB numbers: 2137546 & 213&545 Summary of the fix is enclosed below: Solution Summaries and Symptoms This patch updates the esx-base VIB to resolve an […]
VMUG Website: www.vmug.com Most people involved in virtualisation and especially VMware already know about the VMware User Group (VMUG) but for anyone else I would encourage you all to get involved. VMUG was started in 2010 as an independent, global, customer-led organization, created to maximize members’ use of VMware and partner solutions. This is done mainly by members sharing knowledge […]
Following on from my previous post showing a backup report for the past three or four days, another element of the same report that I produce is to list out the virtual machines that are excluded from the backups and their reason. This uses the VMware Tag capability… basically, any virtual machine that you want to be excluded from the […]
Just to confirm that I am, by no means, a Powercli (PowerShell) expert and would still class myself as a novice. With this in mind there are probably tips and better ways to perform some of the items involved in my scripts… but the items that I have done seem to work for me and may help someone else in […]
Firstly let me apologise for not posting much recently, my work has been quite hectic and therefore my blog has had to miss out. I have a number of items to post up and hopefully over the next few days, I’ll start to get these up. This post is about how to deploy a new vCenter v6 VCSA (vCenter Server […]
Although the following process in itself will not enable those buttons directly again, it will allow you to perform an update of the appliance from a command line… which should enable those buttons again after the update is completed. This method should also only be performed for a minor update to the appliance… I’ll write a slightly different post on […]
Once again I am pleased to have been announced as one of the vExperts as part of the 2015 vExpert Program. The full list of vExperts for 2014 and 2015 is available here: http://blogs.vmware.com/vmtn/
For a summary of the announcements, taken from my live text feed during the presentation, see this link: http://virtualworlduk.co.uk/vmware-one-event-live-feed/
This is an unusual situation that I came across today, the exact issue that I faced was related to an issue with a Riverbed Steelfusion appliance but could easily happen to a normal VMware environment. With Riverbed Steelfusion, we present out a LUN to a remote location as iSCSI… this remote location creates the datastore etc. as with a normal […]