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 …
In the blog post, I am showing you how to deal with SATADOM boot devices in your ESXi Hosts. Recently I replaced my SD cards with SATADOMs in all my ESXi Hosts in my HomeLab. This blog post is about my experience and configuration that was required for HPE ProLiant servers. SD Card In the …
After some network maintenance, my virtual pfSense firewall started to cause some major issues and parts of the network started to stop functioning. In the end, it came down to the following error message (arpresolve: can’t allocate llinfo for X.X.X.X on emX). Because this wasn’t the first time… it was time to do a proper …
Last week I was converting a vSphere 6.7 Update 1 environment from external PSC to embedded PSC. After a couple of seconds running the conversion, it ended in an error message (Failed to get vecs users and permissions). The customer was using the latest available vCenter 6.7 update 1 release available at this point vCenter …
About a year ago I wrote a blog about the following issue: No Workflow Output in vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) 7.4. Apparently, after the vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) 7.6 upgrade the issue has returned. I will not go into full detail in this blog post. Just a basic instruction on how to resolve the issue in vRealize …
At a customer, I encountered the following issue when trying to connect with PowervRA to vRealize Automation. The error message that appeared was: Invoke-RestMethod : The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a send. Let go one step back: So what is PowervRA you might ask? PowervRA is a PowerShell Toolkit to …