I’m running a fully nested homelab with a four-node vSAN Cluster. When trying to patch my vSphere environment using VMware Update Manager (VUM), my remediation pre-check fails because the vSAN Health Services are reporting an error. This short blogpost explains how to silence a vSAN Health Check: Since the ESXi servers are nested VMs, the ...
In my previous blogpost, I explained how to remove a failed PKS cluster by removing the BOSH deployment using the BOSH CLI. Removing the BOSH deployment does not remove the NSX-T objects however. Manually deleting these NSX-T objects using the GUI is prohibited because these objects are supposed to be managed by PKS and are ...
UPDATE: I received some feedback on this blogpost from some of my ITQ colleagues. I should point out this is a very quick and dirty approach suitable for my homelab environment because it not only deletes the failed PKS cluster, but also the PKS deployment itself. This is easily fixed by Bosh by applying changes ...
Back in November 2018 my application submission for my second VCDX was unfortunately rejected. Of course I was bummed out but I was also determined and passionate to resubmit as soon as possible. Well, soon has passed and I haven’t resubmitted yet. What happened? I was flying to Las Vegas for AWS re:Invent 2018 and ...
Introduction In my homelab, I’m currently running a fully nested VMware environment in a single box. With the necessary tweaking and tuning, and thanks to fast NVME SSD storage, I can quite comfortably run 6 ESXi hosts concurrently. 4 Nodes with vSAN are running the management cluster (non-stop), and two 2-node clusters with NFS storage (provided ...
Vembu has released version 4.0 of BDR Suite. This blog will provide an insight into the new features that will be available with this release and the other enhancements. What’s new in 4.0? You can now backup the VMs running on Hyper-V cluster. Even if the VMs configured for backups move from one host to another, the ...
As some people might know, I have been working hard to obtain my second VCDX certification. This time, I’m aiming for VCDX6-NV. I worked very hard to submit my application before the due date for the December round of defenses. It was a tough nut to crack, but I submitted my application and after a ...
NAKIVO is working on v8.1 of their Backup & Replication solution. You can sign-up for the Beta and download a trial at https://www.nakivo.com/resources/releases/8.1-beta/. I installed this version in my homelab and gave the new features a spin. The full release notes are available at http://beta-helpcenter.nakivo.com/display/RN/v8.1+Beta+%282018-11-05%29+Release+Notes. The most important new features are: Policy-Based Data Protection NAKIVO Backup & ...
This is just a quick blogpost on a small issue I encountered during a VMware Validated Design (VVD) deployment. As part of the VVD deployment, all ESXi hosts need to be added to Active Directory. This allows for Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) over the ESXi hosts.. Following the planning and preparation guidelines, the customer nicely ...
Introduction I am currently deploying a VMware Validated Design for SDDC at a customer, with the addition of vRealize Network Insight. This blogpost explains how to use the Certificate Generation Utility for VMware Validated Design for Software-Defined Data Center (CertGenVVD utility) to replace the default SSL certificate of the vRNI Platform Appliance. CertGenVVD is a command-line utility ...
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