Like any other monitoring tool with vROps you will get lots of alerts, most of them during the day while you're doing other things. You can send alerts to email, but in my experience those emails not always get the right attention. To make sure you see the alerts (especially the important ones) you...
VMware Aria Operations for Networks (formerly known as vRealize Network Insight) is a great tool to get information about traffic within your ESXi enviroment. After configuring your vCenter and NSX instance the collection starts and can give you lots of useful information. Getting the right data isn...
Most of the times I prefer to not bind VMs to a specific host, but sometimes it saves lots of money on licenses. I used this script to keep Windows VMs running on less hosts then my cluster size, in order to report less Host usage for the SPLA reports. You can use DRS Group to place selected VMs on...
At a customer I was working on hardening an environment. I case of your ESXi servers there are a lot of settings you can apply to make things more secure. But doing all this by hand and keeping track of all these settings will cost some time. The easy way to do this are host profiles, even for small...
Sometimes you find yourself in the situation you just need to migrate to a new vCenter. Deploying a new vCenter and configuring it is not hard to do, but the migration might have some challenges. One of those challenges for me was migrating the dvSwitches to a new vCenter, while the old vCenter is s...
After passing the VMware DCV VCAP Design exam I wanted to take the VCAP deploy exam. This is a lab exam, making it more fun to do! After working with VMware vsphere for a couple of years I decided to just plan the exam a couple of weaks ahead and start perparing. After rescheduling because of covid-...
After not having any form of website at my personal domain I've decided to do some more with it. Keeping track of my IT journey and documenting stuff for myself and others.
Deciding to start blogging was the first step, after that came the question about how to run it :-) I prefer having my blog s...
