Clik here to view.
Erster Eindruck: Veeam Backup for Linux
Veeam bietet seit längerer Zeit eine kostenlose Lösung zum Sichern von einzelnen Windows-Maschinen an: Die Software hört auf dem Namen Veeam Endpoint Backup Free und hat selbst mir schon mehrmals aus...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ersteinrichtung: Veeam Backup for Linux
Wie bereits in einem vorherigen Blog-Artikel genauer erläutert, hat Veeam eine neue kostenfreie Software mit dem Namen “Veeam Backup Agent for Linux” veröffentlicht. Aktuell noch in der Beta-Phase....
View ArticleClik here to view.
PowerShell für Linux und macOS
Here it comes… PowerShell Core. Überraschung! Microsoft hat vor wenigen Tagen die von der Windows-Welt allbekannte PowerShell für Linux- und macOS Systeme öffentlich freigegeben. Und zwar steht nun das...
View ArticleClik here to view.
VMware vROPS: Upgrade von 6.3 auf 6.4 schlägt fehl
Am 15. November 2016 veröffentlichte VMware eine neue Version von VMware vRealize Operations Manager 6.4 (kurz: vROPS) mit Verbesserungen, neuen Dashboards und auch eine Unterstützung für das ebenfalls...
View ArticleClik here to view.
HPE Gen8: Redundant boot devices with FreeNAS
Since more than a year I’m running FreeNAS on a dedicated HPE ML310e v2 Gen8 machine in my HomeLab as my main storage, mainly as a iSCSI server for my VMware ESXi nodes. However when building this...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Windows in recovery mode: No fixed disks to show
I have a bunch of Windows Server VMs running in a VMware vSphere HomeLab. After nearly about three months of uptime, FreeNAS decided for yet some unclear reasons to crash completely (probably a kernel...
View ArticleClik here to view.
vRLI: Change node IP address
How to change the IP address of a VMware vRealize Log Insight node? Glad you asked! I’ve done this change a few weeks earlier to be able to take use of the recommended “Integrated Load Balancer” (in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Log Insight: Node unreachable after upgrade from 4.8 to 8.0
The new Log Insight 8.0 release brings some cool new things: The OS of the whole appliance is replaced with Photon OS 3.0 instead of SUSE (in-place update possible!), the Windows agent is being...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Horizon 7.10: Enabling dynamic codec switching
VMware Horizon 7.10 – released on September 17, 2019 – ships with a new dynamic encoder. Depending on what content you’re watching to in your VDI, it will seamless switch to the best suiting codec for...
View ArticleClik here to view.
VMware Appliance for Folding@Home
The PhotonOS-based appliance allows you quickly deploying the software by Folding@Home running protein folding calculations using your available CPU/GPU resources to help fighting COVID-19. Deploying...
View ArticleClik here to view.
VMware FAH Appliance: Making Of F@H-Stats
You might have seen my previous blog post about the VMware Appliance for Folding@Home. This article is about how the local console was made underneath – and actually how simple it is. Usually when...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Horizon Agent: Installation fails at VM_BlastUDPReservePorts
I’m building customized and optimized Windows 10 images for my VDI, removing unnecessary stuff from the Windows installation (to name a few: unneeded drivers, retail/demo files, Hyper-V components)....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Quick Tip: NSX-T 3.0: Removing VIBs manually from ESXi host
Due to some experiments with NSX-T 3.0 in my lab with ESXi 7.0 hosts I was in need removing the VIB files manually from the host, as the NSX Manager failed doing so. Just to be very clear: This is NOT...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Let’s Panic: ESXi failover not working, using Static LAG/etherchannel
There was once… a customer who was concernced about the network-wise failover on the ESXi-level, which was not working as he expected it to. To shed some light on the complete scenario… Configuration...
View ArticleClik here to view.
mailpiler installation guide
This is my installation guide for mailpiler I have written and optimized in the last days. If there are any questions or ideas, please let me know in the comments below or via email. ABOUT PILER piler...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Quick Tip: Use USB storage devices as datastore on VMware ESXi
When attaching any kind of USB devices, the service usbarbitrator claims those devices to allow passing through USB devices into virtual machines. This is (one of) the reason you won’t see USB sticks...
View ArticleSolved Mystery: DRS, Powering On VM fails with “insufficient resources”
Once there was a DRS-enabled cluster with a mystery: When trying to start a virtual machine, the very generic error Insufficient resources appeared. However further checking all hosts in the cluster...
View ArticleQuick Tip: Get vCenter Instance UUID via SSH
That post is more a quick note, in case someone ever needs this. There might be few very specific and rare situations where you might need the unique vCenter-Instance-UUID. In this case, you can get...
View Articlepiler update guide
In addition to my piler installation guide this now focuses on updating an existing piler setup. Luckily this takes noticeable less time than the installation. If you don’t have piler up and running...
View ArticlevCenter 7.0 U2: vSphere Native Key Provider! (integrated KMS)
Recently vCenter 7.0 Update 2 was released to the public, with new features and improvements. For me one highlight was the introduction of the "vSphere Native Key Provider" (NKP): a native KMS (Key...
View Article