VMworld 2019 San Francisco
23:57 on the 15th of July my mailbox went loco. Hello Laurens van Duijn, you’re going to VMworld 2019 in San Francisco! You have been selected to receive a free… Read more »
Category: Virtualization
How to upgrade ESXi 6.7U1 to 6.7U2 via esxcli
VMware vSphere ESXi 6.7U2 is just released so my eagerness told me to upgrade the lab asap. If you are interested in what’s changed. The release notes are here. What’s… Read more »
Awarded VMware vEXPERT 2019
Yes! I am proud to be awarded the vExpert status for the 4th year in a row. You can look up my profile or check the vExpert Directory. Congratz to… Read more »
Why is on my NVIDIA enabled vSphere host Quick Boot disabled?
Currently, I’m in the process of building a new Horizon environment on HPE Synergy. Their Synergy 480 Gen10 blades support Quick Boot and on all of the clusters, this was… Read more »
How to create a Let’s Encrypt wildcard certificate on a Synology NAS
I love the Let’s Encrypt functionality on the Synology but the built-in solution will not allow you to create a wildcard certificate. From a security standpoint a good way to do certificates with… Read more »
Fresh deployed vCenter 6.7U1 missing vSAN options in HTML5
Today I was deploying a new vCenter 6.7U1 environment with vSAN. This was containing 2 vCenters linked with embedded PSC. The whole deployment was one out of the books but… Read more »
Unable to upgrade vCenter 6.7 to U1, Root password (NOT) expired
It was time to upgrade to vCenter 6.7 U1 in my lab but when running the RUN PRE-UPDATE CHECKS it warned me about my root password being expired… Although I was… Read more »
Top vBlog 2018! Voting starts NOW:)
It’s that time of the year again one can vote for their favorite vBlogs! Don’t be shy and vote! Go to: Top vBlog 2018 or click the logo above to vote…. Read more »
What happens in Vegas… Stays on VMworld 2018!
Oh, man.. Thursday 23rd of August was one to remember. A colleague fell ill and was unable to go to VMworld Las Vegas. (Get well soon dude!) His flight was on… Read more »
Passed the VMware Certified Advanced Professional 6 – Network Virtualization Deployment Exam
Yes… Just passed the VCAP6-NV Deploy exam marking the second VCIX on my list of badges 🙂 Had to do it 3 times though.. was hit by some bad juju on… Read more »