VMware Explore 2022 My Recap
Let me start by saying how great is was to get together again in Barcelona, as it was only my second time there it still felt amazing to be there…
VCF Making a Network Pool with Powershell!
Hereby my take on a scripted version of creating a networkpool in VCF! Please look at the code before using because there are some assumptions in there that may mess…
More Scripting work! now for VCF Post tasks
I have been scripting alot of post tasks after creating a new cluster for a existing Workload domain in VCF. Here they are : The first one is to join…
VCF Host stuck in “Deactivating”
We had a dead host in our environment which needed a reinstall due to a failed boot drive. So we needed to remove the host from the Workload domain. We…
Replace VROPS Remote Collector with LCM
We ran into an issue where our remote collectors only worked for a couple days and after that we had to reset (reboot) them to start collecting again. Instead of…
Expired vCenter Password with VCF
The quickest way to recover from a expired vCenter root password in a VCF environment is too connect to the vcenter with SSH and it will prompt you to enter…
vSphere+ and vSAN+
VMware just released this exciting new subscription model for vSphere and vSAN and i decided to look up some information about it and came across this awesome blogpost from William…
Upgrading Network Insight 6.2 to 6.6
Trying to upgrade to 6.6.0 from 6.2.0 in one shot unfortunately is not allowed… so i downloaded 6.4.0 and gone ahead and installed that first. Update took about an hour…
Exporting VM Hard Disk Information
I got a question from a colleague if we could export the disk information of a certain vm which had 37 vmdk’s and they needed the size and names of…
Comparing DRS groups for double entries
I was in need of a way to check if a VM is placed in 2 DRS groups so i made a little script to read out the vm cluster…