Kristof's virtual life

Restore ESXi network connectivity after you lost (or in my case deleted) your vCenter

March 14, 2024

Ok another booboo for the books 🙂 . After several troubleshooting attempts I wasn’t able to restore my vCenter. At that time I kind had it, and in a moment of frustration, I deleted my vCenter without thinking to much about it. Now if you have distributed switches, like me, you automatically create an issue. … More Restore ESXi network connectivity after you lost (or in my case deleted) your vCenter

vIDM upgrade fails on precheck OVFENV

May 21, 2023

This weekend I wanted to upgrade my vIDM. But as you know my luck by now, I got an error during the upgrade. It was giving me a “Failed” status during the pre-check. Content blog article 1.First attempt There’s a KB article that describes the issue I’m having but it didn’t bring me the complete … More vIDM upgrade fails on precheck OVFENV

Expired vCenter certificates, how to get back in the game.

February 13, 2023

You can tell it’s my first year I have a homelab. I never thought of expiring certificates nor did I see any messages in the vCenter console about certificates expiring. My issue started with this “HTTP Status 500 – Internal Server Error” Now, how can you check the status of your certificates? You can run … More Expired vCenter certificates, how to get back in the game.

Extending my homelab with the vExpert gift

January 5, 2023

People that follow me on Twitter, know that we (vExperts) received an awesome gift from Cohesity. During VMware Explore in Barcelona we received a NUC for our homelab. How cool is that, an excellent gift to extend my homelab. Content blog article 1. Extra hardware Like with any NUC, you need to buy some extra … More Extending my homelab with the vExpert gift

Aria automation: Starting with API’s part 2

December 29, 2022

In part 2 I’ll continue the configuration of Aria through API’s. And as promised I’ll also dig a bit deeper into some more advanced options with Postman. In case you forgot, the 3 places where you can find more information about API calls: Content blog article 1. Create a Network Profile We create a network … More Aria automation: Starting with API’s part 2

Aria automation: Starting with API’s part 1

October 30, 2022

This will be a post for dummies on API’s. No offense to anyone, because I’m referring to myself in this case 🙂 . Before I started with this post I never really had the need to work with API’s and I didn’t know much about them. So with this post, I want to document everything … More Aria automation: Starting with API’s part 1

Setting up GitHub for vRA

July 21, 2022

They told me to use GitHub for my Cloud Templates because it gives you the possibility to develop all your code in one place. From there, you can easily distribute your code to any vRA environment you want. But you’ll need to have internet access if you don’t use an internal GitHub. In this blog … More Setting up GitHub for vRA

Lessons learned: upgrading homelab from 8.3 to 8.8

July 14, 2022

Accepting the role as Belgian VMUG leader made me seriously neglect my homelab. So once I’ve found some time again to focus on my homelab, all my licenses and passwords were expired and I had to upgrade from 8.3 to 8.8. Because I’ve deployed everything with LCM I had to do it step-by-step, and for … More Lessons learned: upgrading homelab from 8.3 to 8.8

Fling: vRealize Automation Health Monitor

July 1, 2022

I saw a post on Twitter, saying there was a new Fling out to monitor your vRealize Automation environment. So I needed to have it running in my homelab, you can find the link to the fling => HERE You can choose to install Docker Desktop on Windows or on Linux. But because I’m not … More Fling: vRealize Automation Health Monitor

New Belgian VMUG Leadership

January 21, 2022

I’m proud, that as of today, I can call myself officially a VMUG Leader for the Belgian community. The former VMUG Leader Erik Schils, decided that after 15 years it was time to step aside and leave it over to a new generation of leaders. So first, a big thank you, for doing this by … More New Belgian VMUG Leadership