I recently passed the Master Specialist exam for VMware Cloud on AWS and this guide contains all my study notes and resources I used during my preparation. VMware Cloud on AWS Master Specialist Exam overview The exam is a multiple choice exam with 34 questions which you need to finish in 60 minutes. The passing ...
NAKIVO Backup & Replication v9 can protect physical, virtual, and cloud environments.NAKIVO Inc., a fast-growing software company dedicated to protecting virtualized and cloud environments, announced today the release of NAKIVO Backup & Replication v9. The new version adds support for Microsoft Windows Server backup, allowing customers to protect physical, virtual, and cloud environments from a ...
First steps into VCDX6-NV Wow! This has been quite a journey. After I achieved my first VCDX on DCV, I was pretty soon looking at the VCDX6-NV blueprint and quietly developed the ambition of shooting for the double. I’m in the luxury position of working at ITQ so I didn’t have to convince anyone at ...
After upgrading to vRealize Operations Manager 7.5, my next task at hand was upgrading to vRealize Network Insight (vRNI) 4.1. I’m really looking forward to this release because it supports VMware Enterprise PKS and Kubernetes as a data source. Very cool! vRNI 4.1 What’s New! Martijn Smit recently made the move to the vRealize Network ...
It was time to upgrade the operations management layer of my homelab environment. This includes an upgrade to vRealize Operations Manager 7.5. vRealize Operations Manager 7.5 What’s New! vROps 7.5 introduces a lot of exciting new features, including: vSAN-aware performance optimization Return of the allocation model Identify orphaned (or “zombie”) virtual disks with reclaimable capacity ...
I have been in contact with Runecast since VMworld 2018. They deliver a product called Runecast Analyzer. It basically allows you to stay on top of the overall health of your VMware environment. They – for example – automatically scan the online VMware Knowledge Base using their “Proactive automation engine” to search for any known ...
NAKIVO is working on v8.5 of their Backup & Replication solution. You can sign-up for the Beta and download a trial until April 23rd at https://www.nakivo.com/resources/releases/8.5-beta/. Nakivo Backup & Replication v8.5 comes with a set of interesting new features: Nutanix AHV Support Replication From Backup Ransomware-Proof Mini Backup Appliance Based on Raspberry Pi Software-Defined Backup ...
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 ...
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