The vExpert 2014 are announced. This year 754 people (including me) are awarded with the vExpert 2014 title. Each of these vExperts have demonstrated significant contributions to the community and a willingness to share their expertise with others. This is the fourth time I got the vExpert award. I …
Continue ReadingOn a View Security Server I needed to change the default self signed certificate to a signed wildcard certificate. The customer had a wildcard certificate that didn’t include the private key. A certificate that include the private key is a requirement for a VMware View Security server. If you have …
Continue ReadingVMware has today announced VSAN. Here are some highlights from the Q&A session: VSAN will be GA at March 10 2014 vSphere 5.5 Update 1 will support VSAN GA Beta VSAN upgrades to the GA release are not supported VSAN is not a VSA. Performance is much better than any VSA Pricing and packaging will …
Continue ReadingLast week ik blogged about the “Broadcom adapter data corruption on ESXi/ESX hosts using the tg3 driver and TSO enabled” NIC problem. Link This week I found two new vSphere NIC issues worth to mention: Hosts with virtual machines using the E1000/E1000E adapter have networking issues after upgrading …
Continue ReadingVMware has released a new KB article (2072515) on possible data corruption with Broadcom adapters that use the tg3 driver. This problem can occur when: The system is configured with greater than 4 GB RAM TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO) is enabled on the adapter The system is running ESXi/ESX 3.5, …
Continue ReadingFor a VMware View Horizon Healthcheck I needed to display all VMware View Pools created and export some settings for documentation. The easiest way to do this is using View PowerCLI on a VMware View Connection server. Here are some examples to use: Display all the pools and settings: get-pool …
Continue ReadingWhen enabling the Hyper-V role on a Windows 2012 (R2) server, it creates a dynamic MAC address pool of 256 MAC addresses available for VMs. The MAC Address Pool configuration can be found in the Virtual Switch Manager under the Global Network Settings. The MAC address pool is generated as follows: …
Continue ReadingDuring a Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V implementation I needed to identify all the iSCSI disks (LUNs) presented by an EMC VNX SAN to the Hyper-v Failover cluster. Each presented iSCSI disk has a unique LUN ID. To View the LUN ID of a disk, you can use the diskpart command. Here are the steps to …
Continue ReadingA customer has a VMware vSphere 5.1 environment with VMware Horizon View 5.2 environment and Trend Micro Deep Security installed. Trend Micro Deep Security uses the VMware vShield Endpoint framework. In the vSphere license manager asset the “vCloud Networking and Security” license is displayed in …
Continue ReadingFor testing I use Hyper-V and VMware Workstation 10 on my laptop. One restriction of VMware Workstation is that it does not support VHDX disk files (yet). VMware Workstation support VHD files, so the VHDX files must be converted to a VHD first. After the conversion VMware Workstation can select the …
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