Install a Lets Encrypt Wildcard SSL certificate on VMware Cloud Director 10.3
In this article I will demonstre how you can request and install a Wildcard SSL certificate from Let's Encrypt on VMware Cloud Director 10.3. The reason for writing this article is that the procedures for installing SSL certificates on VMware Cloud Director has...
Setting up VMware Tanzu Community Edition on MacOS
In my previous post about the announcements made at VMworld 2021 I talked about the VMware Tanzu Community edition. Today I will show you how to set it up on MacOS First of all I am using a Mac running MacOS 11.6 and its running on an Intel Mac (I know I also want the...
VMworld 2021 announcements
Today I want to give you an overview of some of the announcements made at VMworld 2021. VMware Cross-Cloud Services Vmware announced a updated strategy to help customers and businesses navigate the multi-cloud capabilities we have today with VMware Cross-Cloud...
VMware Virtual volumes or vVols
So today I will talk about VMware Virtual volumes or vVols. vVols are somewhat confusing sometimes so let's dig in. What are VMware Virtual Volumes? First of all a vVol is nothing like a a traditional VMware datastore (VMDK or NFS). vVols work completely different and...
vSphere 7 Update 3 – What’s new
vSphere 7 Update 3 has been announced by VMware so in this blog I will go over vSphere 7 Update 3 and see What's new. New innovations Here is a short overview of the topics I will discuss today: vSphere Lifecycle, Upgrade and PatchingvSphere with TanzuAI &...
VMworld 2021 Imagine that
Next week VMworld 2021 Imagine that will kick off virtually again. This is the second year virtual and even though I miss meeting colleague's, partners and customers in real life VMware is really making a push for another great effent.In this blog I share some really...
How to deploy an OVA in Cloud Director
Yesterday I was in a call with a customer and we discussed uploading OVA's into Cloud Director. I said sure that is no problem at all. Well then I started thinking how are you supposed to deploy an OVA in Cloud Director because I do not even remember how this is...
DaaS – Login Failure: General authentication error
So the other day I was preparing to demo VMware horizon DaaS I was supposed to give the demo to a customer when I ran into some issues. I was welcomed with a nice Login failure: General authentication error.Well that is a bummer. Let me tell you how I fixed the...
Veeam v11 powershell module warnings
Yesterday I upgraded veeam 10 to 11. According to the release notes, the pssnapin is replaced by a moduleSource: veeam_backup_11_0_whats_new_wn.pdf page 6:PowerShell module — By popular demand, we switched from the PowerShell snap-in to the PowerShellmodule, which can...
DaaS – 2FA not working, cannot disable
Playing with 2FA/MFA in DaaS 8/9... yesterday I did some tests with a customer and his MFA setup. Somehow the 2FA setup in DaaS was activated so users and admins could not login into the user and admin portal. So how to disable the 2FA in de DaaS database? First login...
VMware Interoperability and upgrade matrix
Like most of you are aware it is really important to keep track of which VMware versions are compatible with each other.But how can you keep track of these requirements? This is where the VMware Interoperability and upgrade matrix comes into play. Today I will show...
VMware based homelab
So today I will share with you some of my research I did for building a VMware based homelab. I must confess I did not yet buy one. I am a bit hesitant because I know myself; Once I start i can't stop and I am convinced my wife also has something to say about that.But...
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