vSphere 6.5 announced
Today vSphere 6.5 was announced. I won’t bore you all with another page that doesn’t have all info (yet!) so i will point you to Brian Graf’s site for all information you want and need. Click here! Continue reading
Is updating @VMware ESXi at @Nutanix really that easy?
Do you want the short answer or the long answer? Short: Yes! Long: Absolutely! The real story: After doing several Acropolis (CVM) & NCC (Health check) upgrades before on my customer’s Nutanix clusters today was the first time to do an actual hypervisor upgrade. Since we run everything on VMware… Continue reading
Received the VCAP6-DTM Design beta exam result
Well as expected I failed this one miserably! I scored 183 where 300 was required while the scoring range is 100-500. Points to improve are all over the place so I guess it’s all back to the drawing boards while I’m still not sure if I want to do the… Continue reading
VMworld 2016 US Part 4 – the last one!
So right now it’s thursday evening and here I am in my hotel room too damn tired to even go outside. VMworld is a wrap and wow it was awesome. Yesterday I had 2 more sessions. First a quick vExpert session at the Docker booth where we got a nice… Continue reading
VMworld 2016 US report part 3
Wow it’s wednesday already, time flies at VMworld! Yesterday again was an awesome day, first the 2nd keynote and after I had to head out to the Luxor for the Inner Circle fireside chat. The Inner Circle is a group of about a 1000 people that is engaged by the… Continue reading
VMworld 2016 US report part 2
Òk so in part 1 I stopped after the Partner General Session. After lunch I wanted to do some labs but the queue was really awfull so I decided to attend a group discussion about vCloud air or mobile management in general. I got some good info on the view… Continue reading
VMworld 2016 US report part 1
RIght now I am setting in the Partner Exchange lounge and since I have some time at hand it might be time for a short message from the US. Since this is my first VMworld, first time in the USA I have to admin I am really in awe of… Continue reading
vExpert 2016
Last friday I received word that I was added as vExpert in the 2nd batch of 2016. After several people nudged me to apply for this I went ahead but never expected to be chosen. vExpert is no technical title but more of an award for people who have done… Continue reading
Login Monitor Script & Check MK
Last night Paul Grevink posted a nice post about the basic setup for Check MK and i am really looking forward to the rest of the series. At my current customer we are also using Check MK so i decided to use the script I made for the VMware Login… Continue reading
Installed the VMware Logon monitor, now what? Let’s make a script!
A while back VMware released the Logon monitor fling. I thought this was a very useful expansion of out toolkit. So I decided to fling in our golden image to see how it behaves. After playing around with it, it writes the log files away to a share so in case… Continue reading
