I faced multiple times the issue that after the installation of VMware tools the iso has not been clean unmounted. This can prevent virtual machine from live migration by VMotion. Mostly the root cause is related to the fact that the “eject” command is missing in the guest operating system. So to fix you could try to …

I got the possibility to take over a new role in my company. My old role was Application Manager responsible for cloud like services. Now I become Cloud Solution Manager responsible for the Orchestration Team and a Cloud Management Workstream. I’m completely focused on our internal cloud solution called Vodafone Plex. …

Last week I started to play around with Openstack in combination with VMware vCenter. I used Devstack as baseline and configured the VMware support. I wasn’t expecting that it will directly work but it did. The configuration is described in the OpenStack Wiki. As environment I used 3 HP Dl360 G7 (2xQuad Core, 96GB …

Today AMD and Canonical announced a new awesome out of the box solution for Openstack based on a SeMicro SM15000 and Ubuntu LTS 14.04 and Openstack. Official Announcement page AMD-Canonical Out of the Box Solution Details: AMD HARDWARE <td> CANONICAL SOFTWARE </td> SeaMicro SM15000 server provides the following in 10 …

Recently I had to collect log files from a couple remote hosts with Syslog-NG. I found a pretty good config which separates the log files in different folders based on the hostname. Ubuntu Syslog-NG server: <br /> vi /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf<br /> <br /> source s_net {<br /> udp(<br /> ip(SYSLOG-SERVER-IP)<br /> …

Sorry for long time not posting new stuff. I was extremely busy at work which ended in a long phase of sickness. But now it starts changing got new tasks and responsibilities in the companies cloud area. It’s the management of an internal Amazon like cloud. Real interesting topics with a lot of new challenges. …

There are new online trainings and corresponding exam’s available. VMware Certified Associate – Cloud VMware Certified Associate – Data Centre Virtualication VMware Certified Associate – Workforce Mobility later on a 4th one will follow VMware Certified Associate – Network Virtualization I successfully passed VCA-Cloud …

I faced this issue in my environment multiple times now. If I try to consolidate I get an error message “Unable to access file since it is locked” An easy way to get this resolved is, you shutdown the virtual machine and afterwards migrate it to a different host and datastore. After this migration you can consolidate …

To remove an VSA cluster you have to execute an script which is part of the VSA Manager. Details:

Based on the response of VMware on a SR it is possible to increase the memory of a VDP appliance to 16GB.