After a recent deployment in my Lab environment with a new vRealize Automation 8 installation I figured out that my NFR product license was about to expire within a week. So it was time to change the product key on my running environment. Here is a write-up to change the license in vRealize Automation 8 …
In this blog, we are going to set up the VMware vRealize Log Insight content pack for a Cisco ASA device for capturing syslog information. With setting up this pack we are able to provide a central location for storing the logging information and a way to maintain the data for longer periods of time. …
After replacing the Synology DS1515+ with a Synology DS1618+ last year it was time for another investment in the Synology DS1618+. Overall it is a great device that is running my VMware iSCSI storage for my ESXi Hosts but based on some metrics the memory was experiencing some issues, so it was time for a …
I was running into an issue in my Home Lab when upgrading vRealize Automation 8.0.0 to vRealize Automation 8.0.1. The upgrade was performed with vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager or in short vRLCM and it could not complete the precheck because of issues related to the free disk space and disk space size.
In this blog post, I am talking about the HPE ProLiant ML10 v2 home lab servers that I have been using for the last three years. I had some performance issues related to the processor with the number of virtual machines and containers running on the little ML10 v2 servers. So it was time for …
Currently, I have been involved in a Dell EMC VxRail design & deployment with VMware Cloud Foundation on Dell EMC VxRail. There were some noticeable items that you need to consider when using the Dell EMC VxRail as your hardware layer in combination with VMware NSX-T as a network overlay. So it was time to …
Today I was greeted by the following error message when logging into the VMware vCenter Server also known as VCSA: “Could not connect to one or more vCenter Server systems: https://%fqdn%:443/sdk“. So it was time for a quick write-up on how to resolve this issue. The issues were already present a couple of hours earlier …
In this blog post, we are going to talk about VMware ESXi and the ability to start & stop a virtual machine from the ESXi shell. Recently, I ran into a situation where the vCenter Server was powered-off manually and the ESXi host that was responsible was not able to open the VMware Host Client …
On the twenty-sixth of September 2019, it was time for our yearly event! For the third time in a row under the name ITQ Transform! This year the theme of the event was “Empower your Business”. The event was located in Fort Voordorp near Utrecht in Holland. A central spot in the country with enough …
Recently I was deploying vCloud Director (vCD) at a customer and I was experiencing some issues surrounding the Java Keystore password that is configured out of the box (OOTB) in the vCD Cell. Before digging into the topic, let’s talk about the latest vCloud Director releases. Since the release of vCloud Director 9.5, the software …