vRealize Log Insight: Internal vs External Load Balancer
Most of the times when talking about high availability or scaling a product like vRealize Log Insight is easily forgotten. This is a shame, especially since vRealize Log Insight is…
vRealize Operations 6.6: You need this!
We’ve all been there. Day Zero, your new infrastructure is finally being delivered. You or someone is putting together what you’ve long been waiting for; the solution to all your…
Missing endpoints after upgrading to vRealize Automation 7.3
Besides adding a ton of new features, some customers have reported missing endpoints after a successful upgrade to the new vRealize Automation 7.3 which was released May 16, 2017. In the Infrastructure…
How to run Containers as a Service – Secure Docker communications
Last March, Dimitri did an excellent series on ‘How to run Containers as a Service’. In part 1, Dimitri describes containers, the problems of running containers and possible solutions. In part…
VMware mobile apps: Getting more out of your infrastructure
While I was at a customers location I noticed an app that I completely forgot: vSphere Mobile Watchlist, a tool that allows you to monitor the virtual machines you care about in…
New VMware Fling – Autopology (Drag and Drop NSX Network Topologies? Yes Please!)
The VMware Fling labs is one of my favourite things, as it brings some awesome new tech straight from VMware R&D. Some of these flings flow to the product cycles…
Monitor hybrid, multi-cloud architectures with the new Microsoft Azure Management Pack for vROPS
Digital transformation is accelerating as more and more enterprises work to create and innovate by taking advantage of cloud. Research shows that in the near future, over 90% of enterprises…
5 Tips for Infrastructure Hardening
While compiling this blog post last couple of weeks this weekend all hell broke loose! A large-scale ransomware attack was launched against users of any Windows system worldwide. Showing us that…
Patches and Updates – Usefull Resources for Lifecyle Management
Updates, patches and more updates. How do you keep track? How do you decide if a patch is critical for you and when you need to install it? How do…
vRealize Automation failed requests monitoring
When working with vRealize Automation, monitoring the requests tab on the tenant portal can be really usefull. Knowing when a workflow fails for a tenant and act on this as…
Exporting your Amazon Kindle Highlights & Notes to MySQL
As a wise man said; now for something completely different. This post is going to be just that. I received a Amazon Kindle on christmas and absolutely love it. It…
Why Upgrade to ESX 6.x? Snapshot handling!
A lot of organisations are still on older versions of VMware vSphere. I see ESXi deployments in the field which run on version 4.1, 5.0 and 5.5 regularly. When I…
Correctly sizing your VMware infrastructure
A lot as been writting about sizing VMware environments. There are various opinions and ideas, like: Use the reference guide or architecture, then you’re safe Follow the sizing guides from…
How to run Containers as a Service – Part 2
In ‘How to run Containers as a Service – Part 1‘ I talked about how easy it is to run containers in a development environment and the difficulty of moving containers into…
How to run Containers as a Service – Part 1
In this post I will talk about containers, why developers love them and which platform is suitable to manage and run Containers in production. For those not in the know,…
How to control NSX using Log Insight webhooks and a Lego Mindstorms robot
[Updated 26-03: Added the NSX API call script] During the last few years we’ve had some fun demos at the Dutch VMUG Usercon. We’ve automated a coffee machine using vRealize…
Virtual Tool chest update: Flings and More
Most of you know the VMware labs and the flings they produce. Some flings are so good that they become part of a product. Some of them are good but remain a…
Powershell: VMware NSX duplicate VTEP addresses
Roughly a half year ago we came across a situation in which an VMware NSX environment was having problems consistingly applying routing and firewall rules. After some troubleshooting it appeared…