Categorie: Solutions

Reporting on your Windows Server backup

18 januari 2021 Powershell Script Solutions
A while ago I blogged about backing up my virtual home lab for free with Veeam Backup & Replication 10. The server on which I installed this is a Windows Server 2016 server that is also used for backing up my home PCs and laptops. And on this server I…

Windows Server 2019 customization issue

5 november 2020 PowerCli Solutions VMware
I was asked by a colleague to help him with a problem he had customizing a Windows Server 2019 deployment. He had no problem customizing a Window Server 2016 VM so had no idea what the problem was. The first thing I did was a manual deployment. I created a…

Packer and WinRM – mystery resolved

1 november 2020 Solutions VMware
A while ago I started exploring Hashicorp Packer in order to learn more about a new way of creating Windows template VMs. Traditionally, you create a VM, attach the Windows ISO file and of you go… But with Packer, you can define the whole thing in code and store that…

Remediation did not succeed

26 september 2020 Solutions VMware
I was patching a lot of ESXi hosts but had some trouble with one of the clusters. Remediation did not work and in the Events for the first host I saw two events:Could not install patches on <host name>Remediation did not succeed for <host name> A quick search on the…

Troubleshooting Host Profiles

2 september 2020 Solutions VMware
A while ago I was working with host profiles to get the hosts compliant with the CIS Benchmarks (https://www.cisecurity.org/benchmark/vmware/). But for some reason, I could not remediate some of the hosts. Issue #1 The error I got was pretty generic… I started looking at log files and decided to download…

ESXi Events flooded… Firewall configuration has changed.

8 juli 2020 Solutions VMware
I was investigating an event that would appear every two minutes, flooding the Events on the host. So the first event in the sequence is “Port vmk1 is now protected by Firewall”. Followed by “Firewall configuration has changed. Operation ‘allowall’ for rule set iSM succeeded” and finally “Firewall configuration has…

Migrating Windows PSC to VCSA – failed to send HTTP data

15 juni 2020 Solutions VMware
I was working on a migration to get rid of a vCenter/PSC running on a Windows server. So I started the VMware Migration Assistant on the PSC that I wanted to migrate. Then I started the vCenter Server Appliance Installer on a different Windows server and filled in the configuration…

Building a lab – recurring issues

1 februari 2020 Solutions VMware
As I am preparing for an exam (VCAP Network Virtualization Deployment) is started a rebuild of my lab. During this process, I encountered several issues. With this post I keep track of all the issues and solutions. Keep in mind that I try to write them down in the order…

vCenter not using SMTP smarthost but DNS

8 juni 2019 Solutions VMware
The other day I had scheduled a task for a VM and I wanted to get an email notification about the status of that job. So I configured the notification. But the next morning I didn’t find a confirmation email in my inbox. Strange! So I checked the email settings…

Allign SDRS Thresholds and Datastore Usage on Disk Alarms

18 maart 2019 Solutions VMware
Last week I was monitoring a relatively large vSphere cluster with several host clusters and datastore clusters. I saw a couple of datastore warnings related to the datastore usage. There were two or three datastores that were more than 75% utilized. Strange, because other datastores in the same datastore cluster…