Friday late afternoon, the end of the working day, a message about a customer reaching out because of many vMotions in vCenter that are not able to complete. More than 275 emails from vCenter with errors. In this blog, we take a deeper dive and find out why it was not possible to successfully perform a…
I don’t have a blog post about ‘what is VMware NSX-T‘ yet -I’ll create a more extensive one in the future- but I just needed to share this with the world. I wanted to deploy a so-called ‘One-Arm Load Balancer attached to segment VLAN ‘ but I just couldn’t get it to work. In this…
While working for a client I got into a situation where I was unable to remove a snapshot from a VM. This was quite annoying because the error message that was shown didn’t give me that much information. In this blog, I’ll explain the procedure that got me in this situation and what I did…
Now that the lab is up for a few months I noticed that I already installed quite a few Debian Linux VMs. Debian Linux is the default OS that I use when I just want a lightweight server to run some application as a learning/play environment. These VMs run quite autonomous so I don’t often…
In the blog about “New Hardware” I’ve talked about my old server running Citrix XenServer. On the new servers I changed to VMware ESXi, but why did I switch vendor? First off: what do Citrix and VMware even do? Both Citrix XenServer and VMware ESXi are what we call a “hypervisor”. A hypervisor is software…
