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More vSphere HealthCheck Remediation scripts If you follow this blog you’ll know that I like to keep track of useful snippets and scripts that can be used to fix any issues flagged during environment health checks. You can find other healthcheck remediation scripts to Disconnected connected CDs, Set DCUI and ESXi Shell interactive timeouts and […]
VMware VCSA Supported protocol for proxy server is HTTPS I’ve been working with someone recently who has not been able to download packages to virtual centre via HTTPS because their existing proxy works via HTTP. Wait back up a second, can we create https connections via http proxy servers? Short answer is yes. and I’m […]
Appliance Down! Emergency Mode! failed to start file system check. My lab had a little hi-cough the other day, I’d managed to fill the management vSAN partition… Never a good idea. Whilst I managed to recover space and bring VMs back online one VM greeted me with the following screen… Luckily I’d seen this behaviour […]
Adding Virtual Machine advanced settings to custom properties in vRealize Operations I’ve been working with a customer recently that want to display advanced settings from a virtual machine in vRealize Operations manager. If you didn’t know vROPs does a fantastic job of collecting object settings and presenting them back so they can be tracked in […]
vRealise Orchestrator 8.0.1 installation errors As part of something else that I’ve been working on I needed to install vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) into the lab. I’d not installed the latest versions of vRO but I was aware that the architecture had changed from earlier versions, and was now built upon kubernetes. vRO Deployment vRO is […]
vROPs Dashboards – Kubernetes Namespaces ***Dashboard now available on VMware Code and GitHub*** A few weeks ago I installed the vROPs management pack for container monitoring, which provides a great overview of the kubernetes cluster, nodes and pods in the environment. This dashboard is built from the context of the containers world adaptor and is […]
How to get the available Azure VM sizes with – Get-AzureRmVmSize I was recently working with a customer who was struggling to get a list of available Azure VM sizes for the locations he wanted to deploy Az IaaS VMs. Whilst I work mainly with VMware technologies a customer is a customer, so I was […]
Project Octant – Graphical User Interface for Kubernetes By introducing new layers of abstraction through kubernetes, it is possible that this comes with additional complexity. Project Octant is a useful tool to add to the arsenal when trying to navigate how resources within a kubernetes cluster hang together, to describe kubernetes clusters in a manner […]
I recently got asked a question about how to managed orphaned objects in vSAN, previously with VMFS this was being managed with a PowerShell script, but the customer couldn’t get it to work with vSAN. Which is expected behaviour as managing these vSAN namespace associations/objects is not possible via the GUI or script. Instead these […]
When there is an outage, it is natural to panic a little and maybe try a rush troubleshooting steps. In my experience this is oftentimes counterproductive. Symptoms can often be missed as the root cause, which has the net effect of extending the time to resolution. So where would I suggest is the best place to start, well that in part depends on the symptoms. However, the log files will tell you everything that you need to know.