Everyone with a homelab runs some sort of firewall in their environment. Either as a physical box (Ubiquiti Dream Machine, Sophos SG/XG appliances, pfSense appliances, whitebox firewall) or as a virtual machine on vSphere,...
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...
I just wanted to share a situation I encountered recently with one of my customers. My customer built a new UAT environment with some hosts and a Pure Storage. They have then deployed a...
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...
From time to time I learn something new about features in vSphere and other products I thought I was familiar with, so I decided to create a series of blog posts under the topic...
A week ago I was at a customer site to upgrade from vSphere 5.1 to vSphere 5.5 U1a. The customer has IBM Rack Server and is using Cisco Nexus 1000v. First I tried to get an...