A few days back, Corey Romero asked me if I am interested in co-hosting a CrowdChat session on vSphere. Having never been on CrowdChat, jumping from nothing to co-hosting seemed a bit intimidating but I've always liked a challenge so I said yes. Plus, this was another something that I could do for this amazing community easily [...]
Chances are that unless you are an organisation new to vSphere or want an installation in the lab, you will be upgrading your existing vSphere infrastructure to the new vSphere 6.0 at some point in the future. As there are some design changes in this version, there are decision points that must be considered before [...]
We all know the pains that vSphere Certificate management presents us with. While VMware's Certificate Administration tool has made life a bit simpler, it is still quite a chore to generate requests, get the certificates (in the right format) and installing it in the right order. It was also quite a bit of work to [...]
The vSphere development team has done a great job in maintaining the same look and feel when it comes to interface of the new vSphere 6.0. Of course, there are minor changes due to new features but if you've been using previous versions of vSphere, you'll have no trouble navigating through the new version. However, don't [...]
As this year draws to a close and I review my performance as a passionate virtualisation enthusiast, this has been an "OK" year. My aim this year was to contribute more; both professionally and to the community. While I am happy that I did go some way in achieving that, I do feel that it could [...]
Every now and then, Packt Publishing comes up with this kind of promotion that feels too good to miss. Even though I am a bit late to talk about this (as the promotion started a week ago), I am still going to as it's Christmas and I am sure, after all the festivities, you're going [...]
A client asked me what happens if ESXi servers are pointed towards the Windows domain name in “Time Configuration” and one or more domain controllers are not contactable. While I had a theory, I realised I have never tested what actually happens and what is the failure process. I have seen many environments where using [...]
I happen to have two Synology boxes in my lab (DS213+ and DS412+) and I try to keep them updated as much as I can. Recently, DSM 5.1 was released which applies to both of them so this weekend, I took a few minutes to update both of my devices. DSM 5.1 brings a lot [...]
This post is about a very useful one-liner I use often and one that has saved me a lot of headache in the past. I tweeted about this one earlier in the year as well but thought this one actually deserves a blog post so that it's not lost in the large space that is [...]
While deploying a vCenter Operations Manager appliance a few days back, I was hit by the following error message (towards the end of its deployment): Failed to deploy OVF package: The task was canceled by a user. That was of course surprising given I didn't cancel the task. Thinking it might be a glitch, I [...]