Like many of you, I am also looking forward to attending VMworld this year. I have a feeling that this year, VMware has left a bit more for Barcelona than last year and I hope my hunch is right. Just thought I should do a quick post, listing the sessions I have booked for myself, [...]
Like last year, I am attending VMworld EMEA as an official blogger. VMware has kindly granted me a pass for keeping you all informed with all the activities, technical or not. Having attended a few of these now, I thought it would be a good idea to jot down a few pointers, in case you [...]
On a couple of engagements in the recent past, I encountered situations where I was configuring Inbound/Outbound mail for newly-installed vRealize Automation environments. Despite assurances from mail admins that settings provided to me by them were correct, I found that mail didn't just work smoothly and I had to do some minor investigations. There isn't [...]
When adding Powershell hosts to vRealize Orchestrator using Kerberos Authentication, one has to create the krb5.conf file. There are various articles on that and the best one I've seen is "this one", so I am not going to repeat all that information here. However, I thought to write something up about what's important to remember while [...]
Today, I found out about an offer that is impossible to resist and thought the word should be spread about it immediately so that people can start benefiting right away. Packt Publishing has started this "Free Learning Library" which means that customers get a chance to grab a free eBook everyday! Book of the day [...]
A quick one this: Yesterday, I had to shut down one of my Shuttles, running my HP StoreVirtual VSA (12.0.00.0725.0). Usually, it's not a problem as there are three nodes in the cluster and it remained up as expected, after the shut down. However, when the node came back, the storage node didn't come back automatically. [...]
A few days back, I was working with REST operations in vRealize Automation when suddenly, I was hit by the following error, when trying to "Invoke a REST Operation": Connection pool shut down (Workflow:Invoke a REST operation / REST call (item0)#6) I checked the inventory and the target host was still there and nothing seemed [...]
Just thought I should do a quick post about a command that is extremely useful but often forgotten and that command is "watch". Syntax of this command is: watch [-n SEC] [-t] PROG ARGS where "n" is the interval in seconds (2 by default). This command is used as a wrapper, to constantly update results from [...]
A few months ago, I was helping out a customer with a time configuration issue on their vSphere environment. For one specific question, I investigated and wrote the post: ESXi Time Configuration: Don’t point it towards the Windows Domain name However, while doing the investigations, I went through various documents produced by VMware. As NTP [...]
Time for a book review. This book was released in November last year so I know it's a bit late but I've just got my hands on it. I hope you won't mind. It is written by Mike Greer and is just over 300 pages long, divided into 13 chapters. It starts with a brief [...]