The second day of VMworld started with another keynote and i must say this was more or less the best keynote ever, apart from the demonstration of the vMotion technology. I know it was pretty much the same as the second keynote during VMworld 2013 in San Francisco but i did not attend the SF …
VMworld – day 0
This will be the first update from my VMworld 2013 Barcelona experience. I know the actual event has not yet started, the opening is tomorrow (Tuesday), but there are quite a few events taking place today e.g. VMware Partner day VMware TAM day VMware Certified Instructor (VCI) day Myself i started at 09:00 AM CET …
ESXi host HBA priority
A few days back i had an interesting chat with one of my customers. I’ll provide some background information before going in to the actual problem statement. Background information. The vSphere setup includes: Rack servers 2 x 8 core CPUs per ESXi host. 192 GB RAM per ESXi host. 2 x 1 port Fibre Channel …
vCloud Director based virtual machine virtual hardware
Yesterday i received an email from a customer asking me why Virtual Machine (VM) VM version 10 was not available for his vCloud Director (vCD), version 5,5, based virtual machines. My customer was able to upgrade his vSphere based virtual machine to the most recent virtual hardware version and both types of VMs were hosted …
VCDX-Cloud, Double-X002
The past year i have delivered quite a few VMware vCloud projects and mainly focusing on the design part. In Q1 2013 i was tasked with a vCloud project where i had the chance to both create the design and perform the implementation. I thought these conditions were a good foundation for the VMware Certified …
vCenter Server task – Upgrade vCenter Agents on cluster hosts
One customer contacted me a week ago with a question regarding a vSphere vCenter Server problem they have seen after upgrading to vCenter Server version 5.1. I recall i had the same problem back in 2012 when upgrading to vSphere 5.1 and i thought it was worth to create a blog post about it, even …
Can’t access vCloud Automation Center Reports view
Yesterday i had some problem with accessing the vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) Reports view in my reinstalled lab environment. I have installed all vCAC, version 5.2.3.349, components on the same Windows VM apart from the database. The vCenter Server runs on a separate VM as well. This was the error i received when accessing the URL …
6 months as a blogger – my thoughts
Today i have been a blogger for 6 months and i thought i would write a short post about my time as a blogger so far. A lot of positive stuff have happend during the 6 months: I have published 51 posts. I was awarded the VMware vExpert 2013 title for the first time. I …
Reset vCenter Single Sign On password
A customer of mine lost their password for the vCenter Single Sign On (SSO), version 5.1, admin@system-domain account. It is possible to reset the admin@system-domain account if you know the password configured during the installation. However, my customer had not changed the password since the installation meaning there is no supported way of changing the …
Veeam – the first VCDX56 sponsor
I’m happy to announce that i received my first blog sponsor today, VEEAM Software. This is really awesome and inspiring so i would like to send a big thank you to Veeam. I don’t think Veeam needs a presentation, guess all of you reading my blog are familiar with the company already. Hopefully this will help me …
vCloud Director Allocation Model settings – Reservation Pool
This will be the last (third) article in the blog series about how the different vCloud Director (vCD), version 5.1.2, Organization virtual datacenter (Org VDC) allocation models affects the vSphere layer including the vSphere cluster resource pool backing the Org vDC and the virtual machines (VMs). The first blog post in the series covering the Pay …
Updated VMware Learning path tool
This is by far the shortest blog post so far in my blogger career. Last year VMware released a tool, Learning Path Tool, which could be used to design and build your learning path based on your IT role e.g.: Administrator Architect Engineer The Learning Path Tool recommends actions you can take to achieve your …
vCloud Director Allocation Model settings – Allocation Pool
This will be the second article in the blog series about how the different vCloud Director (vCD), version 5.1.2, Organization virtual datacenter (Org VDC) allocation models affects the vSphere layer including the vSphere cluster resource pool backing the Org vDC and the virtual machines (VMs). The first blog post in the series covered the Pay As …
VMworld 2013 Barcelona blogger pass
1.5 months ago i received an email from the vExpert community telling me there is an option to apply for a VMworld blogger pass. Since i was not sure if my company would send me to VMworld or not i applied for a blogger pass but my initial thought was i didn’t stand a chance …