Today I was planning a NSX manager deployment in my Home Lab… But that turn out to be a problem, because I could not upload an OVF file in the vSphere Client and HTML5 Web Client. When looking in my Home Lab notes I realized the last time I deployed an OVF was when the …
Announcements Yesterday VMware announced the list of 2017 Second Half vExperts. I was pleased to hear that I am also selected. For ITQ (my employer) this means we have in total 14 vExpert and 5 vExpertNSX. Congratulations to everyone else that got their accreditations. What is a vExpert? The VMware vExpert program is VMware’s global …
In this blog post, we are going to automate the installation of VMware ESXi 5.5, 6.0 and 6.5. This can be done with a so-called “kickstart” configuration file which is officially supported by VMware. The file contains the configuration for a VMware ESXi Host to configure settings like IP address, subnet mask, hostname, license key, …
Today I continued installing Microsoft Exchange 2016 on Windows Server 2016 in my lab environment. It looked like I was making some progress, the forest preparation was executed perfectly but then the installation started with the active directory preparation. After a couple of seconds, it failed… so it was time to start troubleshooting again to …
Today I was running one of my favourite home lab scripts to startup and shutdown my lab environment. Sadly, this ended with a PowerCLI error code. So it was time to investigate what was going wrong because the code did not change but the script stopped functioning at some point. Error message: The first thing …
Today I was installing Microsoft Exchange 2016 on a new Windows Server 2016 purely for lab and education purposes. The Windows Installation was finished all Windows Updates were installed and now it was time to start the Microsoft Exchange installation! I had downloaded the installation media some time ago from the Microsoft website (this is …
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 …