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SDDC Consulting LiVefire course
Last Monday, I attended the first day of the five day VMware SDDC Consulting LiVefire course at their offices in Staines, England. The course is designed to accelerate the readiness of VMware Partners...
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VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) and external PSC gotchas
When installing a new VMware data centre for a client this week, I took the design decision to go down the VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) route for their new ESXi 6 / vCenter 6 infrastructure....
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vExpert 2016
This afternoon, I got notification that I have been awarded vExpert 2016 for the second time. The VMware award makes me enormously proud to be part of the community that is so supportive and welcoming....
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VmkMgmtSyncEventIoctl – unable to validate header
While revisiting an old client’s site I reviewed the logs and noticed that there was a high instance of the error message in vmkernel.log: WARNING: VmkMgmtSyncEventIoctl - unable to validate header...
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NSX Ninja Training
On Monday I got up and took the redeye flight from Dublin to London to attend VMware’s NSX Ninja Training course in their UK Head Office (Staines-on-Thames). It was the first of a two week course on...
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Detach VMware Inactive Datastore on ESXi 5.5
While covering for a colleague at one of our clients, I noticed that one of the datastores was showing as inactive on one of the hosts (ESXi 5.5 Express Patch 10, 3568722) After rescanning the hosts,...
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Pick up the pace with VMware NSX network…
Pick up the pace with #VMware NSX network virtualization (via TechTarget) Pick up the pace with VMware NSX network… The VMware NSX network virtualization platform allows users to quickly provision...
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NSX vExpert 2016
Today I received the official notification from Corey Romero that I had been selected as one of the first NSX vExpert holders. My friend and colleague at Triangle Computer Services; Ross Wynne also...
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Migration to vCenter 6.0 – Issues with EVC Mode
This week I have being migrating VMs from a vCenter 5.1 environment to a new vCenter 6.0 for a client As the client must have as near to zero downtime as possible, due to being in the financial sector,...
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Migration to vCenter 6.0 – Issues with “Invalid Backing”
Continuing on from my previous post about EVC Mode when migrating from old to new hardware and vCenter 5.1 to vCenter 6.0, I encountered another issue that you should be aware off with a VM network...
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End of General Support for vSphere 5.0 and vSphere 5.1
This is just a quick post to remind people to start planning (and implementing) their upgrade of their VMware environment(s). It has now been a week since vSphere 5.0 and vSphere 5.1 and its components...
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VMware Communities – VMTN Status
If you have ever wondered what the statuses attached to profiles in the VMware Communities (VMTN) forum are? Or want to get more involved in helping the VMware community out by asking/answering...
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Microsoft PowerShell on Mac OS X
I was very excited to hear that at VMworld US 2016, Alan Renouf announced that PowerCLI is coming to Mac. No release date has been announced but meanwhile I wanted to see what I could do with...
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NSX LiveFire / HIT (High Intensity Transfer of Information) Training
Last week, I attended the VMware NSX HIT (High Intensity Transfer of Information) course in the VMware EMEA HQ in Staines, UK. This training is hosted and taught by the VMware Global Services Advanced...
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How to remove a locked VM
I was asked by one of my clients to look at a locked VM that couldn’t be powered off, deleted, edited, vMotioned or otherwise altered from its current state. As the client wasn’t able to do some basic...
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Horizon View, My learning journey
Over the last few years my career has increasingly being divorcing me from end user computer (Desktop) support. I have been designing, deploying and supporting SDDC solutions across multiple industries...
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10ZiG Thin and Zero clients
In my last post, I started to explain my re-interest in End User Computing (EUC) as I entered the world of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). In this post, I wanted to look deeper into thin and zero...
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Duplicate vNIC on VMs after restore from backup
At present, I’m involved in a project for a client to migrate virtual machines (VM) from one data centre in Ireland to another in Continental Europe. I encountered an issue after backing up the VM and...
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PowerCLI script for Time and VMTools
One of my clients I love spending time with have a constant battle to keep VMware Tools (VMTools) up-to-date and keeping the VMs time in sync. I sadly, don’t get to spend as much time with them as I...
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VM Storage Profiles on vCenter 5.5 – Noncompliant
After implementing VM Storage Profiles this week at a client’s site, I noticed that even though I had added the correct storage profile to the virtual machine, and to the datastore, it was showing as...
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