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VMworld Day 3 – Great People, Great Conversations, Great ses… wait?
Day 3 was a really cool day and maybe even one of the best. I planned lots of cool sessions and wanted to know more about NSX-T & vCF. So, in the morning I put on our “AJAX #ITQlife” shirt, with the idea that it could be a great ...read more →
VMworld Day 2 – Great Sessions & Great Parties
Day 2 was even quicker over then Day 1. It is abnormal of how much cool new stuff I’ve learned that day. This was not only because of all the sessions, but also because of the amazing talks I had with customers, colleagues and other awesome partners. If there ...read more →
VMworld Day 1 – Partner Forum
As the first day slowly has come to its end, a lot of great impressions has stayed with me. In fact, for me this is already one of the best Partner Days in comparison with previous editions. As I blogged before, VMware is going full in, on creating a ...read more →
VMworld USA 2019 – VMware is going next level in the Digital Transformation (Part 2/2)
Check out my guest post at the itq website Where I talk all about the latest annoucements of #VMware and how #VMware is taking some serious steps in creating a #HybridCloudPlatform that embraces multiple platforms while giving the control back to business and IT. Find out how #vROps8, hashtag#vRA8 & hashtag#vRO8 is helping ...read more →
VMworld USA 2019 – VMware is going next level in the Digital Transformation (Part 1/2)
Check out my guest post at the itq website Where I talk all about the latest annoucements of #VMware and how they are taking some big steps in creating a #HybridCloudPlatform that embraces multiple platforms. Find out how #vROps8 & #Wavefront is helping businesses with Cost & Capacity Management in ...read more →
BlogPost Series – Creating a Roadmap for vSphere Upgrades:
Phase 6 – Defining the Soll & Roadmap
Intro We covered quite some topics in the previous blogposts. We talked about how important the assessment phase is, which Technical & Common vSphere Challenges you could expect, and what the consequences are of certain choices and methods. We also talked about how you can define the “Ist”, and ...read more →
BlogPost Series – Creating a Roadmap for vSphere Upgrades:
Phase 5.3 – Solving vSphere Compatibility Challenges with VVD
Intro VMware its product portfolio has grown immensely in the last several years. Most VMware products are designed to integrate & enhance each other but also to be compatible with one and another. However, it has become difficult to keep track of which versions of all the products are ...read more →
BlogPost Series – Creating a Roadmap for vSphere Upgrades:
Phase 5.2 – Common vSphere Challenges
Intro Upgrading and maintaining a vSphere environment is a broad topic that also can be difficult. As you probably have noticed already in the blogpost series, there are numerous ways of doing a vSphere upgrade, and each has its own benefits, drawbacks but also consequences. That’s why I’m so ...read more →
Troubleshooting: Cannot Add host “Authenticity of the host’s SSL certificate is not verified”.
Intro One of my customers wanted to change the hostname of the ESXi host. In this case, the ESXi hostname stayed the same, but it needed to become part of a subdomain. Changing an ESXi hostname This can normally be easily done in the following way: Migrate VMs, offline ...read more →
BlogPost Series: LCM of VMware vSphere & HPE Hardware – Final Conclusion (Part 5)
Final Conclusion Like I said in the beginning of the blogpost series, Life Cycle & Patch Management is a difficult topic. Which can become a big headache when there are so many dependencies within the environment, especially if it hasn’t been maintained for a while. The bigger the Jump, ...read more →
BlogPost Series: LCM of VMware vSphere & HPE Hardware – Global LCM Plan & Order of Upgrading (Part 4)
Intro We’ve viewed the different tools that help to manage a HPE stack and if and how we could integrate VUM with this. We also discussed that consistency with virtualization & infrastructure is one of the most important things for having reliable operations, and that you need some sort ...read more →
BlogPost Series: LCM of VMware vSphere & HPE Hardware – Scripts & Reporting Tools (Part 3)
Intro We’ve viewed the different tools that help to manage a HPE stack and if and how we could integrate VUM with this. During the project and our research, we found out that it is really difficult to see if the VIBs that are being deployed, are consistent with ...read more →
