After running the new homelab for several month now I encounter a really annoying problem with the onboard 10GBit NICs (TX540-A2). I had the problem that an application was not correctly syncing across the direct...
Yesterday I did a major update of my Backup Interoperability Matrix including the following backup software: VMware vSphere Data Protection Symantec BackupExec 15 Symantec NetBackup HP Data Protector EMC Avamar EMC Networker CommVault Simpana...
During my inquires which backup software will support vSphere 6.0 I came across BackupExec 2015 where I saw that vSphere 5.0 was no longer supported. This made me little bit confused because vSphere 5.0...
As a Technical Account Manager, in my case at VMware, you came across a variety of customers and 3 of my 5 current customers running Cisco Nexus 1000V. Because two of my previous customers, when...
During a hardware maintenance task I decided to do update my ESXi hosts to the newest available patch. In my case it was patch ESXi550-201505002 which is the replacement for Patch 5 (ESXi550-201504002). After both hosts where updated...
After attending the Veeam Certified Engineer (VMCE) version 7 course and passing the VMCE v7 exam last year I needed to update the VMCE to version 8 during the grace period which is 120 days...
On March 31, 2015 VMware announced the availability of VMware Certified Professional 6 – Datacenter Virtualization exam. This announcement was for the Beta version of the exam. Because I would never do VCPs anymore, I’m a...
Since I started using the Virtual Center Server Appliance (VCSA) I noticed a strange behaviour which I didn’t understand in the beginning. When using the WebClient or the C# Client and selected “Use Windows session...
I had a recent conversation with one of my ex-colleague discussing about a problem he saw on a NFS datastore with VMDKs when he tries to extend it online beyond 2TB. I told him that...
After reading a post from Andrea Mauro I thought that I’m little behind with my update cycle on my Backup Interoperability Matrix. I wanted to update it since vSphere 6 was GA but I didn’t find the time...