VMware vSphere Infrastructure build completed, tested and ready for workloads. What’s next? Right, it’s time to create bunch of Windows and Linux VMs for customers! Fastest way to do so – prepare VMware PowerCLI / PowerShell script. In my case as part of the project I had to build 200+… Continue reading
Hello, it’s been a while since I last blogged, had a busy few years, took a sabbatical or there was nothing to blog about without breaching a NDA. Anyway I’m back here with a new issue which may help some of those who are virtualizing latency sensitive workloads, a niche… Continue reading
As you might aware VMware announced deprecation of the Integrated Windows Authentication in a future release of vSphere KB. So we had a task for our customers to switch to AD over LDAP authentication. I’ve prepared this manual and want to share it with you to save your time on… Continue reading
We are using AppVolumes Manager on several environments together with Horizon View. When we were deploying the first AppVolume Manager I was asked to provide permissions for AppVolume Manager to local ESXi hosts to avoid using root permissions. There are guides which you can use to setup all required permissions… Continue reading
If you are using Intel X710,XL710 or X722 adapters in your environment, you may have already noticed, that LLDP (Link LayerDiscovery Protocol) is not working for you. And you are getting following message “Link Layer Discovery Protocol is not available on this physical network adapter” Apparently those cards have their… Continue reading
In this article I would like to show you how to replace failed HDD (or SSD) drive in VMware vSAN cluster running on Softlayer Cloud. 1. Open web-client and navigate to: Hosts and Clusters -> choose Cluster -> Manage -> Settings -> Virtual SAN -> Disk Management You will see all… Continue reading
Part II. vAPI and JavaScript This is the second part of the series of articles related to VMware vSphere Automation with vRO 7 – Tags and vAPI. In Part I we have covered the vSphere Tags and the setup of the vAPI for vRO7. Here, we will be discussing how to work with vAPI… Continue reading
Part I. vSphere Tags and vRO 7 This is the first part of series of articles related to working with vSphere tags from vRrealize Orchestrator 7 Here we will discuss the tags, we’ll talk about the required setup for vRO to handle vSphere tags and will touch upon other related topics. In Part II… Continue reading
It’s been a while since we experienced partial outage on our storage infrastructure running under IBM SVC storage. Few LUNs (vdisks in IBM SVC world) presented from storage went offline. I’m not going into details why it happened as HW problems just happens sometimes. Important thing is how are you… Continue reading
Possibility of cross vCenter vMotion is quite popular among customers. But the thing is that most of the times the vCenters, or the environments managed by those vCenters, are in different sites or locations. This simply means they do not share same vMotion network. Which means vMotion traffic needs to… Continue reading
