In my role as an onsite GSS Senior TSE at a large VMware customer in Germany I have to collect vROPs log bundles multiple times a week. As this is time consuming manual process I have created a script in my spare-time which fully automates this task. The script triggers the creation of a log bundle using the CASA API, …

VMware has just released a new technical white paper about performance best practices for VMware vSphere 6.5 It covers hardware for use with VMware vSphere, ESXi and Virtual Machines, Guest Operating Systems and Virtual Infrastructure Management. Performance Best Practices for VMware vSphere 6.5

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If you would like to run a command remotely from the master node on all/only data/only remote collector nodes here is how you can do this. On the master create a SSH key. localhost:~ # ssh-keygen Generating public/private rsa key pair. Enter file in which to save the key (/root/.ssh/id_rsa): Created directory …

I would like to receive push messages for triggered alerts from my vCenter. There is the possibility to execute a command when a alert has been triggered so I decided to write a script which will use Prowl to send push notification to my mobile apple device. I used Prowl already for other devices like my Homematic home …

In my past job and for my own scripts I used gitlab as repository. Most of the time it was running fine and the functionalities are also ok. But from time to time I faced problems in updating gitlab from the repository (on Ubuntu). The process to reconfigure gitlab was failing often due to issues with postgresql. …

Couple of weeks ago I got my hands on 3 Lenovo ix4-300d storage boxes. These boxes are no longer produced and sometimes you can get them really cheap. First I had plans to use them as iSCSI storage for my home lab but the performance is not good enough. Therefore I decided to play around with one of the boxes to see …

I wish you all a happy new year 2017.

Long time no post, I’m busy like hell onsite at my VMware customer. As I’m working as Onsite Senior Technical Support Engineer in VMware GSS. As part of my work I started to create VMware KB articles and my first VMware KB got approved and published now. It’s about VMware vROPs initial redirect issue using browser with …

It’s time for a new update about my new Homelab. In the past I was running HP Microserver 2x N40L and 1x Gen8. All these machines are still here but no longer in use and will be for sale soon. My new Homelab contains now 2x HP ML10v2, 1x Zyxel 16 Gbit Switch, 1x Lenovo ix4-300d storage. 2x Server HP ML10 v2: HP …