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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Attending VMworld is not only attending an IT conference it is also a big networking event where you can talk to vendors, tweeps or bloggers. What will be better for socialising than parties and gatherings at...
Please join me and many more vNerds and vGeeks for the #vBreakfast 2016 edition. Last years #vBreakfast was really awesome. We had around 20 people who joined us very early in the morning to get...
VMworld US has come to an end and VMworld EMEA is only 41 days far off. Preparation for this event has already started. This is the perfect time to give some advice or tips & tricks...
Veeam introduced in Backup and Replication version 9 a new transport mode called Direct NFS. It’s similar to Direct SAN transport mode where you present the FC or iSCSI LUNs to the Backup Proxy Server....