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 Lam. Considerations and Requirements for VCGW I took this piece of information about the new appliance that the subscription uses and pasted it here, i…
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 to complete to give you an estimate. Now i can finally take new snaps and go ahead with the upgrade to 6.6.0 which now agrees…
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 all of them. So i went searching for something like i usually do with the use of Google :). I came across another blogger who…
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 groups and get the members (vm’s) and then output the names of the vm’s that are in both groups. This bit of code also includes…
Last couple of days i have been making some small but very usefull “scripts” to perform some tedious tasks where i did not feel like clicking in the GUI to make it all happen. Chapter 1 : Check MAC to find VM’s I think the title says it all, simple import of csv file with…
Something i struggled with in the past is setting the productlocker, hassle with scripts and ssh and avoiding host reboots. Today we had to configure another 20 hosts with this and i was pointed to a solution doing it with the MOB. So my next thing was, how to automate this. And with 2 simple…
I needed to get more insight into what is happening with resyncs on vSAN cluster for my customer so i decided to look to vROPS to get that and this is what i came up with to see what is going and and also be able to look back and see what happened. First of…
ran into an issue today where we could no longer login with the mystic account, turns out there were too many failed attempts. This can be fixed by logging in to the console of the vxrail manager with the root account and checking and resetting the mystic account : simple solution!
When upgrading a vCenter from 6.7 to 7.0.2 today i ran into something i haven’t seen before…. a quick google search led me to KB article 84355. https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/84355 what you need to do is lookup the PNID and the hostname and with that information you need to change the hostname to the PNID output which…
Start with a new vm and Rocky 8.5 from here https://rockylinux.org/download/ Install Docker with this manual https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/centos/ Install Homebrew first! Install Kubernetes (kubectl) with homebrew Install git now i started with the installation of TCE with version v0.10.rc.2 If you wanted to install the current main release with homebrew which is 0.9 at the time…
