My homelab boots off of cheap USB sticks and has done so since 2016. I easily upgraded my vCenter (VCSA […]
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VMware vSphere
VMware Event Broker Appliance – Part VII – Deploy the Sample Host Maintenance Function
In Part VI of this series, we showed how to sync a fork of our VEBA repository to the upstream […]
Get vCenter CloudAdmin Role Permissions
Had a request to show all privileges assigned to CloudAdmin in VMC. Here is a PowerCLI one-liner to dump a […]
Enabling the vCenter Server permissions required to modify virtual machine network settings
We had a customer question regarding KB1020934. The customer wants to assign specific people the ability to change the portgroup […]
Disable ‘Send Feedback to the Client Team’ in the H5 client
In highly secured environments, customers generally don’t want any type of ‘phone home’ behavior. In the vCenter HTML5 client, we […]
dvSwitch Migration
I was rebuilding my lab and decided to capture the process of moving machines from the standard switch to the […]
Using snapshots to back up SQL under heavy IOPS loads
I find this problem coming up frequently in the field – you’ve virtualized your SQL server and you’re trying to […]
vSphere 6 Network Port Diagram
VMware has published an updated network port diagram for vSphere 6 under KB2131180
New VMUG presentation posted
I posted today’s VMUG presentation in the VMUG section.
The parent virtual disk has been modified since the child was created
Some VMs in my environment had virtual-mode RDMs on them, along with multiple nested snapshots. Some of the RDMs were subsequently […]