So a couple of weeks ago I managed to get my homelab backups running with Altaro. Backups off course are nice but are worthless if you can’t recover them. This is why this 2nd and last part of mini serie is about restoring the backups. Altaro has several options available: Restore… Continue reading
One of the perks of being a VMware vExpert is that you now and then get licenses for and a chance to play with new software. Since I needed a backup solution for my lab I remembered a couple of Backup software builders int he list of companies that support… Continue reading
I must have missed i during the holiday season but VMware has released a new fling: the View Client Resizer. It’s a simple fling that let’s you easily select any resolution you want to check your VMware Horizon View environment on to see how it behaves. The steps below I… Continue reading
Yes I know 3170455 was released last summer but early last month when I released our new golden image we ran into a problem with this update. What happened was that users had problems with some printers. When adding them they got this warning: (This is an example picture, I… Continue reading
After VMworld I decided vcap6-dtm deploy would be my first real attempt at a vcap (I don’t count the design since 2 weeks prep impossibly is enough). In between the vcp7-dtm beta came around so the prepping for the Deploy exam really starts now. I am currently rebuilding my homelab… Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
