vCenter Server Appliance – filesystem out of space

So it's all happening this week with this upgrade/clean up of the MTI solution centre!! =) Upon finishing all the upgrades and reconfiguring vSphere Replication and Site Recovery Manager, I noticed the DR vCSA was a bit unresponsive.... taking ages to log into Web Client (sometimes it didn't even get that far) - signing into … Continue reading vCenter Server Appliance – filesystem out of space

Cannot connect to vCenter Server via vSphere Client – timeout

I've been upgrading my company's solution centre to vSphere/vCenter 6.0 update 2 the past week and noticed that I was having issues logging into the vCenter Server Appliances I had deployed. It was a strange issue because I could log into the Windows vCenter Server I had deployed in my primary cluster, but couldn't log into the … Continue reading Cannot connect to vCenter Server via vSphere Client – timeout

Modifying VMware Site Recovery Manager – Windows 2012 UAC error

I first came across this issue when helping a customer uninstall Site Recovery Manager last year and wanted to blog about it but because I was pretty busy it totally slipped my mind..... until today!! I've been cleaning up the Solution Centre at MTI and tried to uninstall SRM for a new build.... and came across … Continue reading Modifying VMware Site Recovery Manager – Windows 2012 UAC error

VMworld 2016 US – Day 2 General Session Overview

One of the issues with working and having a young family is you end up doing a full days work and going home to a baby who wants loads of attention who then doesn't let you sleep because she's teething..... Yup, the joys of being a parent.... but I wouldn't give it up for anything!! So … Continue reading VMworld 2016 US – Day 2 General Session Overview

VMware NSX 6.2.4 released

So after the huge cock-up with 6.2.3, VMware have turned around a new version of NSX in a matter of weeks to fix all the bugs! http://blogs.vmware.com/kb/2016/08/vmware-nsx-vsphere-6-2-4-now-available.html Of major concern was the whole HA issue that meant DLR nodes got stuck in a 'split-brain' mode after 24 days of operations - and every 24 days … Continue reading VMware NSX 6.2.4 released

VMworld 2016 US – Day 1 General Session Overview

So the replay of yesterdays Day 1 General Session is now online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwS-AwGtEMw The biggest announcement is the tech preview of Cross-Cloud Architecture. This is obviously VMware's next step in their "Any Cloud, Any Application, Any Device" vision. According to VMware: "This architecture extends VMware’s hybrid cloud strategy, enabling customers to run, manage, connect and secure their applications … Continue reading VMworld 2016 US – Day 1 General Session Overview

Schedule Builder now live for VMworld 2016 Europe

Schedule Builder is now live for VMworld 2016 Europe.... http://www.vmworld.com/en/europe/learning/schedule-builder.html I've been checking out the content catalog for a few weeks now to try and plan my time at VMworld Europe in October. Previous years I've been quite mad, dashing around to as many sessions as possible, which has been quite tiring! This year I'm … Continue reading Schedule Builder now live for VMworld 2016 Europe

VMware VSAN & NSX vExperts 2016 Announced

Proud to say that I've been chosen as a VSAN vExpert for 2016.... Honoured to have my name amongst some highly rated peers who were chosen out of the large pool of current vExperts! I didn't really set out to become a subject matter expert, but when VMware announced they were going to create 2 … Continue reading VMware VSAN & NSX vExperts 2016 Announced

NSX 6.2.3 pulled by VMware

Hmm.... well that was unfortunate timing..... I've been penning the last blog post for the past 2 weeks after I downloaded 6.2.3 and played around with it.... and I didn't really double check my blog post before publishing it. Turns out there are quite a number of bugs in 6.2.3 which was causing loss of … Continue reading NSX 6.2.3 pulled by VMware

NSX 6.2.3 Released – support for vShield Endpoint Management

As most people are aware, VMware pulled their support for vCloud Network & Security (and with that vShield Manager) earlier this year and a lot of my customers have been wondering what's going to happen to their vShield Endpoint deployments (for agentless AV). It was strange that VMware announced the EoA for vCNS without really … Continue reading NSX 6.2.3 Released – support for vShield Endpoint Management