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...
VMware solutions on AWS, Google Cloud and Azure
In this blog I am going to show you the differend VMware solutions AWS, Google cloud and Azure have to offer.All three providers have a fully managed solution. Which means that they have full administrative access to the environment. You as a customer have admin...
ESXi on Raspberry PI
VMware has released a fling* to run ESXi on ARM. Nice right? I am now able to run ESXi on my Raspberry Pi.How cool would it be if I could show you all how to install ESXi on my Pi? Pretty cool I guess, However I just noticed that the SD card of my Pi died so therefore...
DaaS 9 (20.2) tenant upgrade failed slony issues
With a tenant migration (step 6 in rundeck) to DaaS 9 it could fail with message:DaasError: 'Tenant migration failed in TA_MIGRATING phase with error: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Guest process exited unexpectedly: 1' This message does not give you the right...
DaaS 9 (20.2) – Launch console error 404
We upgraded one of our DaaS tenant to DaaS 9 (20.2) and used the "Launch Console" option to test the "new" option. (It was there already but known as HACA) Unfortunately we got an error message "HTTP ERROR 404" when trying to launching the console. In the end it...
ESXi 7.0 standalone – The service ntpd failed to start
Today I tried to install a new ESXi 7.0 server for my homelab and I bumped into an issue with NTP.I wanted to make sure this is really a bug, so I've used three different ISO's to install ESXi: (same result)...
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