vBrain.info – The year which was and the year which will be
Because I’m a big Babylon 5 fan I’m using a modified Zathras quote (“You are the one who was, You are the one who is and you are the one who will be”, Season...
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Exam Experience – VCAP6-DTM design GA
After I failed the beta of the VCAP6-DTM design exam (3V0-652) with 219 point and the rescoring with 255 I thought I need to do it again to restore my honor. I took the exam on January...
vRealize Automation 7.x – Beware of the Certificates
I worked recently with a customer to fix a problem during a vRealize Automation 7.2 PoC installation. I need to say that I’ve never installed a vRA Appliance PoC before so I didn’t know...
TYSK – VID, DID, SVID, SSID & VMware HCL
Last time when I was at a customer site I need to check a specific Network adapter against the VMware HCL. It was not that easy because I have not much information about the...
Backup Interoperability Matrix Major Update 2016-12
During my last Backup Interoperability Matrix update I decided to went from a single matrix page to a multiple matrix page and also removed old versions of vSphere. In detail this means I created...
Exam Experience – VCAP6-DCV Deployment exam
Yesterday I finally sat my first VCAP exam after my paternity leave which was VCAP6-DCV deployment (3V0-623). General exam info The exam duration is with 190min shorter then the VCAP5-DCA (I think it was 240min) exam and there is...
Veeam Backup and Replication – Migrate Repositories
Migrating Repositories is not a day 2 day job. Sometimes it must be done when replacing Backup2Disk devices and sometimes when you’re running out of space. Migrations in general could be very challenging but not so...
Things you should know (TYSK) – Content Library Permissions
During the migration of my small ROBO vSAN cluster to a new vCenter I came across a “problem” I wanted to share in my “Things you should know” series. In my current vCenter I have...
Hello my name is VMware UMDS. How can I help you.
One of the not so well-known features in vSphere is the VMware Update Manager Download Service or in short UMDS. In this post I will cover what UMDS is, use-cases for UMDS, the installation and...
Couldn’t format VMFS on nested ESXi (VSAN datastore)
I was working on a blog post and I needed a nested lab for it. So I deployed one on my newly created 2 node VSAN cluster. I used the templates from the Content...