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
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
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
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
A while ago I got a request from a customer to deploy CoreOS with vRA/vRO. They didn’t want to use the built-in vRA IPAM, but they wanted to set their own IP address with the use of advanced parameters. In this blog I’m going to explain how you can deploy CoreOS with setting advanced VM … More Deploy CoreOS with advanced VM parameters
This week I needed to connect to my vCenter over SSH, but when I entered my credentials I got the message “Too many authentication failures”. Now there are a lot of articles out there, that describe the solution if you immediately get the error, without the ability to fill in your credentials. But for me … More Too many authentication failures
For an issue I had with vVols, the support team told me I had to update my FC drivers. However, when I wanted to install the new driver, nothing happened. I started with listing all the installed vibs. Connect to your ESX and execute=> esxcli software vib list Because you get a huge list, filter … More Remove and install drivers on your ESX.
Finally I had the opportunity to implement and play around with vVols. In my case it was on a Lenovo DM7100F with an expansion enclosure for NVMe (DM240N) and another one for SSD (DM240S). This is a similar product like the Netapp AFF A400. In this first part I’ll give you an intro on vVol’s … More Viva las vVols: Lenovo DM7100F – part 1
A huge advantage of being a vExpert is that you have a lot of licenses at your disposal. So if you have the necessary hardware, you can test a lot of products. Today I’ll be deploying vROps / vRNI & Log insight with LCM. Content blog article Upload vRNI to LCM Create environments vRLI config … More Homelab: Installing vROps/vRNI & Log Insight
As you know from my previous post I was so eager to start deploying LCM & vRA that I downloaded the wrong version of the appliance. So currently I’m at 8.2 while the latest version is 8.3. In this article I will update LCM & vRA to 8.3 and VIDM will be upgraded to 3.3.4. … More Homelab: LCM & vRA upgrade
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