Vmware Posts
VMworld 2018 Day 1 Announcements
VMworld 2018 Day 1 What’s New
VMworld 2018 Day 1 started off with some exciting announcements from Pat Gelsinger that I want to highlight in this post.
Netapp Posts
NetApp Ontap 9 Configure Advanced Drive Partitioning
I recently tweeted out about the awesome boot menu option that NetApp has introduced in Ontap 9.x that saves a tonne of time called – Configure Advanced Drive Partitioning. In this post I will show you what steps to go through when using option 9 – Configure Advanced Drive Partitioning
Netapp Posts
NetApp – Sense Data SCSI:aborted command
NetApp scsi.cmd.checkCondition Warning
A quick blog post to highlight an EMS event that we have encountered after upgrading to Ontap 9.3 whereby the EMS throws up the following warning:
Netapp Posts
Netapp Ontap 9.3 Simulator
Since my last twitter post on Netapp Ontap 9.3, a few people have asked me how I’m running the latest version on the simulator without the Ontap 9.3 simulator being out. It’s actually quite simple and I’ll walk you through the steps below.
Vmware Posts
VMware vCloud Director Custom System Roles Not Working
Within VMware vCloud Director it is possible to create custom system roles to create different levels of access for administrators. Such roles might include Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3.
Cryptocurrency
Cryptocurrency Cloud Mining with Hashflare
By now most people have heard about the evolution of cryptocurrency, including bitcoin, ethereum, dash, litecoin, just to name a few. A lot of people are making good profits trading and mining these coins as their popularity increases.
Vmware Posts
VMware vCloud Director Cannot Import VM to vApp
I ran into an issue recently with vCloud Director 8.20.0.5070630 while trying to import a virtual machine from vCenter into a vApp. The Import VM into vApp window appeared, I filled out all the info and when I click on OK, vCloud produced a class java.lang.NullPointerException error.
Vmware Posts
VMware vCloud Director Cannot Delete Additional Network Specifications
Within VMware vCloud Director you have the option of creating additional secondary subnets within an External Network. You may do this to introduce additional networks to your vCloud infrastructure while re-utilizing the same External Network vlan
Veeam Backup and Replication
Backup VMware VCSA vPostgress Database to cifs share
One of the components that the VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) is missing, is the ability to automatically backup. In VCSA 6.5, VMware has introduced a backup feature within the appliance admin portal, however what do we do with VCSA 6 ?
Vmware Posts
This version of vCenter Server does not support Deploy OVF Template
If you are running VMware vCenter 6.5 Build Number 4944578 or below and you try to deploy an OVF template via the vSphere Web interface, you will most likely experience this error: