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 …

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 …

If you face APD’s in your environment you can follow the KB below to possible improve the situation. http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2016122 https://kb.netapp.com/support/index?page=content&id=1014696 When using NFS datastores on some NetApp NFS filer models on an ESXi/ESX host, you experience these symptoms: The NFS …

This is a small powershell script to get all Guest IPs from all virtual machines $VCENTER="10.1.1.3" Connect-VIServer -Server $VCENTER $vms = Get-VM | Sort $file = "c:\ip_list.txt" foreach ($vm in $vms){ foreach($ip in $vm.Guest.IpAddress){ Write-Host "$vm $ip" "$vm $ip" | Out-File -FilePath $file -Append } } …

Some of you might have noticed, there was a countdown on my website. So what has happened … I have decided that it was time to move on to new challenges. So I quit my job at Vodafone after nearly 15 years and joined VMware at the 1st of April 2016 as Senior Technical Support Engineer. Currently I’m really busy by doing …