My lab environment crashed a few weeks ago and runs with very limited capacity for the moment. Until i have a new in place i have used a Swedish based public cloud solution, provided by the company Ipeer, to host my lab environment. This is not an advertising blog post for Ipeer, i just wanted to …
Last week i was asked by a customer to help him reclaim CPU, Memory and Storage resources from over sized virtual machines (VM) in his vSphere 5.1 environment since the overall utilization has increased more than expected over the past 2 months. The customer request was very simple: Free up as much resources as possible …
A few weeks ago me and Tomas Fojta were interviewed over skype for the VMware Education and Certification Blog regarding our double VCDX certifications. The interview was published yesterday on the VMware Education and Certification Blog with the title “Advice from the First ‘Double’ VCDXs“. It was a straight forward interview and i liked that both Tomas and …
Today when i arrived back home i had a package waiting for me. It turned out to be a VMware gift for my newly earned VCDX Cloud certification and it was a really nice business backpack/laptop portfolio. Pay extra attention to the very elegant inscription:) This was actually perfect timing since my because my existing business backpack …
A couple of months ago a customer of mine changed their vCenter Server database location from a standalone MSSQL 2008 SP2 installation to a Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS) based MSSQL 2008 R2 SP2 installation. The intention is very good and it all comes down to increase the availability of the MSSQL server since you can …
It is with great pleasure i announce that my blog has received yet another sponsor. The Swedish based company Compose IT has decided to see what a VCDX56 blog sponsorship can offer. The past two months i have done virtualization consultancy work for the hosting division of Compose IT, which by the way is located in …
For those of you following my blog are aware of that SimpliVity gave a Raspberry Pi to all 2013 vExperts me included, see blog post here. That was highly appreciated and now SimpliVity has decided to be a VCDX56 blog sponsor and i’m really exited about this and would like to take the opportunity to send a thank …
One of the things to verify before you perform any kind of upgrade activity for your vSphere environment is to secure that all the other infrastructure components used by or connected to your vSphere environment supports the version you are about to implement. This includes but is not limited to e.g.: Physical servers Storage systems …
Running nested ESXi hosts is great for development, education, test and training purposes and i have used it for many years in e.g. vSphere, VMware Workstation, VMware Fusion and vCloud Director (vCD). One thing that has been a pain while running nested ESXi hosts over the years has been the shut down process. This was …
A few days ago i was helping a customer building a vSphere 5.5 test environment in a vCloud Director (vCD) version 5.1.2 environment. My customer has changed strategy and will start using the vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) instead of the Windows based vCenter Server version. I’ll not discuss the underlying cause for their decision in …
Today, 2013-11-05, i received the VMware vExpert 2013 gift from SimpliVity, a Raspberry Pi. This is really cool and would like to send a big thank you to SimpliVity for this gift and for the commitment they’ve shown too the VMware vExpert community. I haven’t decided what to do with the Raspberry Pi yet so expect an update …
A new version of vCenter Server 5.5 was released today. A complete list of included fixes/updates can be found here (short version) and the complete release notes can be found here. You can download the new version here. I have had some problems when updating both production and test/development environments and most of the problems i have …
I was asked by a customer the other day how to find out, using the ESXi command line, how much disk space a thin provisioned virtual machine disk consumes. Back in the ESX days you used the du command to query the virtual machine disk and in ESXi, version 5.5, you need to use the stat command. Fot this …
A few weeks ago a customer asked me how to automate the export of the vSphere vNetwork Distributed Switches (VDS) configuration. Their existing routine included to make a manual export of the VDS configuration whenever a VDS change was implemented including adding or removing a VDS port group. In the vSphere Web Client you can …
Updated 2017-11-03: I was made aware of that this solution works for Horizon View 7.1 as well. —————————————————————————– A customer of mine running VMware Horizon View 5.2, View Conenction Server 5.2.0.987719, and vSphere 5.1 had an issue with deleting a desktop pool. All virtual machines (VMs) in the desktop pool could be deleted manually apart from …