It was time to start deploying Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016. So an upgrade from MDT 2012 Update 2 to MDT 8443 was required in my Lab environment. All my virtual machines with a Microsoft Windows Operating System are deployed with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) / Windows Deployment Services (WDS). After a successful upgrade …
This week (12-06/15-06), I attended a VMware training (thanks to my employer ITQ). The training is only available for VMware partners and is called “NSX LiveFire”. It was held at the VMware office in Sofia City, Bulgaria. The training is a technical training given by VMware employees. This time by the following three instructors Bal Birdy, Luca Camarda and Nikodim Nikodimov.
At Dell EMC World 2017, the 14th generation of PowerEdge servers was announced. There is not a lot of information available but some of the key information: * The new Intel Xeon processors (‘Xeon Scalable Family’) * iDRAC version 9 will be available with support for SecureBoot, BIOS Recovery capabilities, signed firmware and iDRAC REST …
This week VMware released vSphere Integrated Containers (VIC) version 1.1. Below are the product highlights and a small introduction to the new product. Information about VMware Integrated Containers vSphere Integrated Containers comprises three components: VMware vSphere Integrated Containers Engine, a container runtime for vSphere that allows developers who are familiar with Docker to develop in …
Photon Platform version 1.2 has been released this week. Keep in mind the support for VMware ESXi 6.0 has been dropped for Photon Platform version 1.2. What’s new: Support for Kubernetes 1.6 Simpler Cluster Management Static and Dynamic Persistent Volumes Master and Worker Node High Availability Pod Networking and Enhancements AD/LDAP and Security Quota Based …
On March 16 2017, I attended the NLVMUG 2017 in the Netherlands. Frank Denneman from VMware presented the opening keynote about “VMware Cloud on AWS”. The NLVMUG is a one-day event and displayed 65 sessions, a remarkably high number. The NLVMUG is one of the largest/is the largest VMUG in the world. This week the …
A security vulnerability has been discovered in some VMware products (CVE-2017-5638). It’s a critical vulnerability which allows remote code execution (RCE) on Apache Struts 2. The vulnerability affects the following VMware products: – DaaS 6.X / 7.X – Hyperic 5.X – vCenter 5.5 / 6.0 / 6.5 – vROPS 6.X
I recently got a question about enabling and disabling the quest time synchronization for virtual machines. The customer asked about a solution to change the settings from within the operating system instead of the VMware vSphere Client or vSphere Web Client. Normally you would change the virtual machine time synchronization settings by hand with the …
When deploying some virtual machines in a test environment I ran into the following problem. In most cases, I make use of a VMware vCenter Storage DRS cluster, in this case when deploying a virtual machine the best-suited datastore is selected for the virtual machines. The only problem is not all customers are entitled to …
On 1 February 2017, I passed the VMware VCAP6-DCV Deployment exam (3V0-623). This was my first VMware VCAP exam that I ever did. I prepped for about two months in my Home Lab environment and a couple of times I used the VMware Hands-on Labs. The main goal wat to exercise all the objectives listed …