VMworld 2014 Europe – Sunday
I arrived at Barcelona with some delay because there was a lot of traffic up in the air. Also this “traffic jam” causes a much longer delay at the luggage retrieval because it started 45...
Author: Manfred Hofer
#vBreakfast at VMworld Europe
At VMworld US there is always a traditional vBreakfast at Mel’s Diner invented by Shane Williford. So Jane Rimmer, Pietro Piutti and Andres Prieto discussed on twitter that there should also be a #vBreakfast for...
My Schedule for VMworld 2014 EMEA, Gatherings and more
I’m very happy that I can attend my 6th VMworld in a row and I’m very pleased and honored that VMware selected me for a blogger pass. I will do my best to spread...
Cannot create Storage Profiles in vCenter 5.5
Yesterday Henrik Andersson and I discovered a strange problem. The following screenshot shows the problem we saw in our demo environment. To be clear, this error showed up as soon as we clicked Create new VM Storage Policy....
The third time is the charm – Moving on!
Since 2005 I have been employed by VMware solution & service provider partners and I have learned a lot about all the different VMware products. Over time virtualization especially with VMware took more and more part...
vCenter Database running full
I had this problem several times in the last few months. In a small environment the customer is using SQL 2008 R2 Express Edition for their vCenter database. When using SQL 2008 R2 Express...
VMworld EMEA 2014 Tips & Tricks
With VMworld EMEA 2 months away and VMworld US kicking in in 1 week I thought I can give some Tips/Tricks/advice that I’ve learned over my last 5 VMworlds. Some of these are general for...
How-to add an ESXi connected USB device to a VM
Last time a colleague came to me and ask me how to pass-through a license dongle to a VM. The first thing that came to my mind was “Hm…. haven’t done that before, but...
Can’t remove standalone host from Veeam Backup & Replication 7 (Used in Job)
I was attending the Veeam Certified Engineer course this week and tried some things in my home lab. One of the discussions in the course was, if it’s possible to add a ESXi Hypervisor...
Hey Dude where’s my NIC?
Today I was at a customer site and the customer told my a really strange story and I don’t know if everybody else is/was aware of the following behavior. But first of all the story. He was...