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Building a lab – recurring issues

1 februari 2020 Solutions VMware No Comments

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…

Migrate Cisco Nexus 1000V to VDS with PowerShell – part 2

15 oktober 2019 PowerCli Powershell Script VMware No Comments

In a previous post I talked about the migration of a Cisco Nexus 1000V virtual switch to a VMware Distributed Virtual Switch. During the testing of the script I ran into some issues that were related to the underlying Cisco platform. But then I already made the decision to do…

Migrate Cisco Nexus 1000V to VDS with PowerShell

9 oktober 2019 PowerCli Powershell Script VMware No Comments

With the End of General Support (March 12, 2020) getting closer and closer I was asked to perform a migration and upgrade of a vSphere 6 environment. The plan was to install a new 6.7 VCSA and then migrate the hosts as-is to that new platform. After that the hosts…

vCenter Update Manager gives error status 404 in IE 11

27 september 2019 VMware No Comments

I was working in my home lab testing a migration of hosts from vCenter 6 (Windows) to the 6.7 VCSA. The steps outlined in the article “How to move ESXi/ESX host from one vCenter Server to another” (1004775) worked flawless but for some reason Update Manager didn’t work… I tried…

It’s official!! vExpert 2019

27 juli 2019 VMware No Comments

A couple months ago I applied for the VMware vExpert Program. I had to show them I share my knowledge and always try to help others. And also be an evangelist for VMware and its solutions. Yesterday I got a confirmation email that I had been added to the program!…

Find a datastore or RDM by LUN ID

27 juli 2019 PowerCli Script VMware No Comments

Sometimes the storage team wants to clean up their LUNs but they only know the LUN ID. And they ask you, the ESXi admin, where that LUN is used… Not an easy question if you don’t have an administration of your LUNs. You can use the UI and do some…

vCenter not using SMTP smarthost but DNS

8 juni 2019 Solutions VMware No Comments

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…

vRO – Creating a test copy of your appliance

7 mei 2019 VMware vRealize Orchestrator No Comments

Recently I was investigating the migration of an external vRealize Orchestrator instance to an embedded instance inside vRealize Automation. But for testing purposes I didn’t want to use the production appliances… So I had to create a test vRA and vRO appliance. I started with vRO. The control Center has…

DIY Ambilight – part 4

7 mei 2019 DIY No Comments

Finally the third USB video grabber arrived. This time I ordered a Gembird UVG-002 with a UTV007 chipset. I plugged it in, booted the PI and started a SSH session. The command lsusb showed me what I wanted to see… The grabber was recognized as a Fushicai USBTV007 video grabber……

DIY Ambilight – part 3

18 maart 2019 DIY No Comments

Finally the new LED strip arrived so now I had al the pieces to connect everything together. I started by cutting the LED strip to the desired length. I had a total of 96 LEDs so I cut it in pieces of 8, 21, 38, 21, and 8 LEDs. In…