NSX-v 6.3 was released last week with an impressive list of new enhancements and I wasted no time in looking to upgrades my NestedESXi lab instance from 6.2.5 to 6.3 however I ran into an issue that at first I thought was related to a previous VIB upgrade issue caused by VMware Update Manager not being available […] Read More
NSX Bytes: NSX for vSphere 6.3 and NSX-T 1.1 Release Information
VMware’s NSX has been in the wild for almost three years and while the initial adoption was slow, of recent times there has been a calculated push to make NSX more mainstream. The change in licensing that happened last year has not only been done to help drive adoption by traditional VMware customers running vSphere that […] Read More
Upgrading Windows vCenter 5.5 to 6.0 In-Place: Issues and Fixes
Yes that’s not a typo…this post is focusing on upgrading Windows vCenter 5.5 to 6.0 via an in-place upgrade. There is the option to use the vSphere 6.0 Update2M build with the included Migrate to VCSA tool to achieve this and move away from Windows, but I thought it was worth documenting my experiences with a […] Read More
First Look: ManageIQ vCloud Director Orchestration
Welcome to 2017! To kick off the year I thought I’d do a quick post on a little known product (at least in my circles) from Red Hat Inc called ManageIQ. I stumbled across ManageIQ by chance having caught wind that they where soon to have vCloud Director support added to the product. Reading through […] Read More
Top Posts 2016
2016 is pretty much done and dusted and it’s been an good year for Virtualization is Life! There was a more modest 70% increase in site visits this year compared to 2015 and a 2600% increase in visits since I began blogging in 2012. In 2016 I managed to produce 124 posts (including this one) which was slightly up […] Read More
OVFTool: vCloud Director OVA Upload PowerShell Script
Earlier this year I put together a quick and nasty PowerShell Script that exports a vApp from vCloud Director using the OVFTool …for those that don’t know the OVFTool is a command line tool that has a powerful set of functions to import/export VMs and vApps from vCenter, ESXi and vCloud Director weather it be from […] Read More
vCloud Director SP 8.10.1 UI Additions – Boot Options
Last week VMware released vCloud Director SP 8.10.1 Build 4655197 and while it was mainly a patch release there was one new feature added which was a couple of additional UI settings under the General Tab of a Virtual Machine. New boot customization options added to delay the boot time and to enter into the BIOS setup screen. […] Read More
Released: vCloud Director SP 8.10.1 Important Upgrade for Zerto Clients
This week VMware released vCloud Director SP 8.10.1 Build 4655197. This is the sister build for vCD SP 8.0.2 and like that release, while there a a number of minor bug fixes in this release there is one important fix that will make service providers who offer replication services built upon Zerto happy, as it resolves a bug that […] Read More
HomeLab – SuperMicro 5028D-TNT4 Unboxing and First Thoughts
While I was at Zettagrid I was lucky enough to have access to a couple of lab environments that where sourced from retired production components and I was able to build up a lab that could satisfy the requirements of R&D, Operations and the Development team. By the time I left Zettagrid we had a lab that most […] Read More
Quick Look – vSphere 6.5 Storage Space Reclamation
One of the cool newly enabled features of vSphere 6.5 is the come back of VMFS storage space reclamation. This feature was enabled in a manual way for VMFS5 datastores and was able to be triggered when you free storage space inside a datastore when deleting or migrating a VM…or consolidate a snapshot. At a Guest […] Read More