Lenovo SN550, SN850, ST550 and X722 PSOD
One of my customers is currently upgrading their ROBO locations to vSphere 7.0 U3c. At the locations, they are using Lenovo ST550 servers with an X722 BOM network card (Intel Ethernet Connection X722 for...
Author: Manfred Hofer
vSphere 7.0 U3c update – VCDB size issue
Introduction It’s been a while since we released vSphere 7.0 U3 and also pulled it again. You can read more about it here. When we released vSphere 7.0 U3c in January most of our...
Skyline Collector not upgrading to newest version
In September, VMware announced the next level of proactive intelligence called Skyline Advisor Pro. For everyone who is not familiar with Skyline, Skyline is a proactive support service aligned with VMware Global Support Services....
vRLCM – environment deployment failed
Looks like I’m little bit into Lifecycle managers, but this time it’s the vRealize Lifecycle Manager (vRLCM). I’m running the vRLCM now for quite a time in my lab to play around with different...
vSphere Lifecycle Manager – Product version sprawl
I recently got a very good question from a customer asking “Why are there so many different product versions in vSphere Lifecycle Manager?” Unfortunately, I had no answer at that moment. My answer from...
HPE Gen10 Server SD Card issues
Background It started some month ago at one of my customers. The customer patched all of their ESXi host during the maintenance window from 6.5 U3 to 6.7 U3 through an highly automated Powershell...
Backup Interoperability Matrix Major Update 2020-10
Veritas BackupExec 21.1 Veritas NetBackup 8.3 IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 8.1.10 Micro Focus Data Protector 2020.08 (10.80) EMC Avamar 19.3 EMC Networker 19.3 CommVault Simpana 11.20 Hitachi Data Protection Suite 11.20 Veeam...
HomeLab Part 10 – Sophos SG Appliance Replacement
I was working with Sophos SG Appliances (formally known as Astaro UTM) since 2005 (version 5.x). In the beginning I used white boxes with 2-4 NICs as my personal firewall. In January 2013 when...
Sophos UTM 9.7 – SMTP proxy isn’t working
I’m working with Astaro/Sophos UTMs since the beginning of my professional IT career and I’m also running a hardware Sophos UTM 9.7 appliance in my homelab. 4 month ago I bought a used SG135...