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Enable Bash History in VCF Cloud Builder

Mon, 03 Mar 2025 10:16:54 +1100

Enable history for the current session:

1admin@vcf-m01-cb01 [ ~ ]$ set -o history

Enable history on each login:

1admin@vcf-m01-cb01 [ ~ ]$ echo set -o history >> .bashrc

NSX API OpenAPI version - Failed to Import

Mon, 11 Sep 2023 00:39:25 +1000

Updated 2025-03-03

When using Postman, or other API clients (Thunder Client), you can download all the API commands associated to them. Although the NSX collections are still using OpenAPI Spec v2, while Thunder Client only supports OpenAPI Spec v3+.

Maximum Failed Attempts to Create Service Engine Reached

Fri, 28 Apr 2023 16:00:29 +1000

When creating a new virtual service (VS) using NSX ALB (Avi) 22.1.1 & 22.1.1-2p1 in vCenter write access mode, it's supposed to create new Service Engines (SE's) if needed, but in the case today, it just sat there.

Hovering over the red VS status showed "Maximum failed attempts to create Service Engine reached. Target Host not found to create serviceengine Avi-se-hbgqp"

NSX ALB Reset Admin Password

Thu, 25 Aug 2022 11:51:23 +1000

Uh oh. You don't know the NSX ALB admin password, but if you have have another local account with Super User access, you can reset the admin password.

NSX-T Manager: Some Appliance Components Are Not Functioning Properly

Thu, 04 Aug 2022 14:50:01 +1000

When browsing to the NSX-T Manager (3.1.3.x) interface, I see:

1Some appliance components are not functioning properly.
2Component health: MANAGER:UNKNOWN, SEARCH:UP, POLICY:UP, UI:UP, NODE_MGMT:UP.
3Error code: 101

vIDM API - Using Postman to Create a Network Range

Mon, 27 Jun 2022 10:50:14 +1000

vIDM is part of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), and you may have multiple instances depending on the number of VCF deployments.

In cases where the vIDM policy for network ranges is complex / limited, I found it efficient to use the vIDM API to push the same network ranges to all vIDM appliances.

The official vIDM docs are at https://developer.vmware.com/apis/57, with a swagger spec you can download and install as a Postman collection. The collection doesn't contain all the API's available, so keep in mind using anything not officially documented is probably not supported.

NSX Advanced Load Balancer - Syslog TLS

Tue, 24 May 2022 14:04:46 +1100

NSX Advanced load balancer is simple enough to configure with a remote syslog server entry, but it's a bit more complicated using syslog-tls (SSL).

Avi Perf Server for Load Testing and Benchmarking

Tue, 03 May 2022 14:24:17 +1100

When deploying NSX Advanced Load Balancer, it's handy to have a pre-configured web server. In the download portal where you download NSX ALB, there's a perf-server.ova you can use.

Let's Encrypt - DNS Validation for NSX Advanced Load Balancer

Thu, 24 Feb 2022 22:04:02 +1100

Replacing self-signed certificates on appliances is a lot easier these days. This is to remind myself how I did it for NSX Advanced Load Balancer using Let's Encrypt with DNS validation.

NSX ALB Failed Serial Key Decryption Failed

Tue, 22 Feb 2022 15:53:27 +1100

Applying a license to VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer (Avi) version 21.1.3+ you may get an error:

failed Serial key decrytion failed. Failed to process serial key. SYSERR_LICENSE_DECRYPTION_FAILED Vmw error: NONE_FOUND

NSX Advanced Load Balancer with vIDM Integration - Part 2

Tue, 25 Jan 2022 21:37:48 +1100

In the previous post, I showed how to integrate vIDM & NSX ALB. However any user that was assigned to the vIDM SaaS catalog item had super user permissions. Lets be honest, that's just easier to work with right? But.. some orgs prefer more selective permissions.

Here I will show how to use vIDM and be able to assign roles to groups synced with vIDM.

NSX Advanced Load Balancer with vIDM Integration - Part 1

Thu, 20 Jan 2022 12:53:12 +1100

Integrating vIDM with NSX ALB (formally known as Avi) is documented officially here: https://avinetworks.com/docs/21.1/configuring-saml-with-workspace-one-for-avi.

I was easily confused by it, due to some of the configuration being masked out. These are the same steps with my own notes & screenshots.

NSX-T 3.2 - Kubernetes Is Coming to Get Me

Wed, 15 Dec 2021 22:21:07 +1100

I’m sure we’ve all felt the wave that is Kubernetes over the past few years. I watched Getting started with Kubernetes from Nigel Poulton, which was enjoyable, but I still didn’t see the light, so to speak.

In 2019 when VMware first announced Tanzu, I knew it was going to be big, but I thought it would be another pillar with a range of products, like Cloud, EUC, Network and Security. I figured I’d ignore it to focus on going deeper with NSX-T.

Twitter Bot - VMware Product Lifecycle Matrix

Wed, 25 Aug 2021 09:34:24 +1000

Last year I wanted to learn Python, and I didn't really know what serverless (ie: AWS Lambda) was, so I looked for a project where I could learn.

TL;DR Serverless is just somewhere to run your code from 🤣

Something that I find hard to keep track of, is when VMware products are coming up to their end of supports dates. Sometimes the dates change. I'm not going to check for updates each week, but I am on Twitter a lot. *Bam* I should make a Twitter bot that tweets when VMware products are approaching end of support dates.

Here's how I did it.

NSX-T - Disk Space Requirements Not Met

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 16:44:31 +1100

Upgrading NSX-T in the lab, the Host Pre-Check came back with:

Disk space requirements not met. Please ensure 180MB free space is available in tmp partition to proceed with upgrade.

Horror Stories - The Oncer

Tue, 12 Jan 2021 15:03:26 +1100

Over the years you hear some great IT horror stories. Hopefully by sharing it, others can learn and have a good laugh. Names have been changed to protect the innocent.

Part I - A New Hope

The team had created a bootable CD that could re-image an ESXi host within 10 minutes. Late one night, rather than troubleshoot an issue, Brent mounted the ISO, re-imaged the ESXi host and it fixed the problem.

VCF 4 Multi AZ Networking

Sat, 22 Aug 2020 21:10:00 +1000

In a VCF 4 multi AZ deployment, before stretching the cluster to AZ2, there's some manual tasks required for the T0 to peer with the ToR switches in AZ2. The process is well documented in the NSX-T Data Center Configuration for Availability Zone 2 for the Management Domain in Region A on the VVD6 documentation pages.

Although afterwards, we noticed the T0 Gateway, was learning routes from AZ1, and advertising them to the ToR in AZ2. The ToR switch in AZ2 had a more preferred path for those routes, so in theory traffic for those external networks should never be routed through the T0. Unless of course the aforementioned preferred path goes away! Check out What Is BGP? | BGP Routing Explained from Cloudflare for more info.

VCF 4 - Failed to Validate the BGP Route Distribution

Sat, 22 Aug 2020 21:00:00 +1000

During a VCF 4 Bring-up of a single Management Domain, the validation tests passed all OK. But during the deployment, it failed during the NSX-T tasks, specifically on the "Verify BGP Route Distribution" - "Failed to validate the BGP Route Distribution result for edge with ID ".

My understanding of this error is because an Edge Node is not receiving routes from the ToR it's trying to peer to.

NSX-T 2.5.2 Release

Sun, 02 Aug 2020 12:46:46 +1000

On the 30th July, 2020, NSX-T 2.5.2 was released. Check out the release notes.

This is a minor update with almost 80 issues marked as fixed.

My VCAP-NV Design Exam Experience

Fri, 10 Jul 2020 13:53:41 +1000

Last month VMware released updated versions of some exams, including the VCAP-NV Design exam based on NSX-T 3.0. In the past year or so I've been working a lot more with NSX-T, but.. I'm not a real* networking guy, so I wasn't confident in taking NV exams.

After passing the VCP-NV on NSX-T 2.4 earlier in the year, I put off the VCAPs because they were based on NSX-T 2.4 or NSX-v 6.x, but with the updated exam out, I was running out of excuses.

You might have heard there's a pandemic going on, so doing exams remotely is the only option here, and suited me.

Upgrade to ESXi 7.0 Boot Disk Size Error

Mon, 06 Jul 2020 17:18:36 +1000

Finally getting around to upgrading to ESXi 7.0, and I was stuck pretty quickly, with the error: BOOT_DISK_SIZE ERROR.

NSX-T Troubleshooting Tunnel Status

Wed, 20 May 2020 02:41:09 +1000

Switching between a mix of different product versions, I forget some of the specifics, and I've wasted too much time troubleshooting something that was working OK. Hopefully this saves you some time.

Photon OS in the Lab

Tue, 19 May 2020 13:25:20 +1000

Here's a few tips from what I do when deploying Photon OS in the lab. Keep in mind this is only for troubleshooting and testing, so don't make the same changes to anything outside of your lab.

NSX-T: Configure NSX-T Manager 2.5

Tue, 28 Apr 2020 18:00:00 +1100

If you followed the previous blog NSX-T: Deploy NSX-T Manager 2.5 with OVFtool you should have NSX-T Managers deployed.

There's a few more things we have to configure within NSX-T Manager like:

NSX-T: Deploy NSX-T Manager 2.5 with OVFtool

Thu, 16 Apr 2020 10:00:00 +1100

If you have the NSX-T Manager OVA on a fileshare or web server you can deploy it from the vCenter GUI, or use any other deployment tool like OVFtool.

Using OVFtool to deploy NSX-T Manager is a great way to deploy a quick and repeatable configuration. It also helps to document the configuration options.

NSX-T Troubleshooting: Compute Manager Already Registered with Another NSX Manager

Wed, 15 Apr 2020 06:00:00 +1100

After adding a compute manager, the Registration Status shows as Not Registered, and Connection Status is Down.

This is usually caused by a previously registered NSX-T Manager to vCenter, that has been deleted. If you remove the Compute Manager via the Delete option in NSX-T Manager, it also removes the registration from vCenter.

Deploying VMware Appliance for Folding@Home With OVFtool

Sun, 22 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +1100

Recently VMware released a Fling of the VMware Appliance for Folding@Home.

It's great to see the VMware community coming together so quickly to help out.

As part of my love/hate relationship with OVFtool, here's a few ways you can deploy the VMware Appliance for Folding@Home using OVFtool.

VRA8 on VMC

Wed, 27 Nov 2019 14:11:51 +1100

If you try and deploy vRA8 into VMware Cloud on AWS, you'll get this error:

User has no administrative privileges

vRealize Network Insight (vRNI) Tips

Fri, 01 Nov 2019 13:52:25 +1100

More customers are embracing the suite of applications provided by VMware in managing their environment. I'm seeing customers with vRealize Network Insight (vRNI), but a lot still don't appreciate all the things it can do. One of those things is showing redundant NSX firewall rules.

Often when customers create NSX firewall rules, they accidently also match traffic from a previous rule. Because they only test the new rule is working as expected, they don't realise an older rule is now redundant. Having redundant rules gets in the way of managing the functioning rules, but also adds to the overhead of other VMs that may have to process additional rules before hitting the default rule.

NSX-v 6.4 End of Support Extended

Fri, 04 Oct 2019 08:53:02 +1000

For those with NSX-v 6.4, they’d know the end of general support date was 16/01/2021, (just over a year from now). If you check the product lifecycle it now shows the end of general support is 16/01/2022.

Migrate2VCSA Error

Fri, 02 Aug 2019 22:12:27 +1000

When using the Migration Assistant to Migrate from a Windows 5.5 vCenter to 6.5 VCSA, the migration assistant was failing to run on the Windows vCenter server.

It automatically saves the logs on the desktop. When viewing the logs, this part stood out:

12019-07-22T00:31:58.193Z ERROR upgrade.states.component_states vcIntegrity:CollectRequirements: Remote script failed with an error [InternalError()]
22019-07-22T00:31:58.193Z ERROR upgrade.states.component_states vcIntegrity:CollectRequirements: failed with internal error. For details take a look at CollectRequirements_com.vmware.vcIntegrity_2019_07_22_10_31.log.
32019-07-22T00:31:58.209Z WARNING wf.wf_processor State CollectRequirements com.vmware.vcIntegrity has failed.

ESXi 'About to Install...' Hangs

Sat, 27 Jul 2019 20:52:44 +1000

During an upgrade from 5.5 to 6.5, update manager started to do the upgrade, but after the host rebooted, it would boot into the ESXi 6.5 installer, but then display About to install for 15 seconds, then flash an error message, and then go back to About to Install. Leaving it for a few hours didn't make any difference, and I was unable to alt-F1 and log into the console, as when the error message flashed up, it would reset the login process.

vRNI 4.1 Insufficient capacity on each physical CPU

Tue, 07 May 2019 12:24:27 +1000

Deploying vRNI 4.1 you might get an error: Insufficient capacity on each physical CPU.

Using Ovftool

Wed, 10 Apr 2019 14:20:26 +1000

Ovftool can be pretty awesome, but it can also be very difficult to use. I seem to have a love/hate relationship with it.

Here I will go over some common issues I have with the tool. I've only tested on the Windows version of ovftool.

Migrate to Hugo

Sun, 06 Jan 2019 11:52:19 +1100

With plenty of unfinished drafts growing, I thought I'd procrastinate even more by jumping on the static website bandwagon.

I've migrated from Blogger to Hugo, and hosted on AWS with CloudFront.

The process to migrate from Blogger to Hugo has been incredibly time consuming. Honestly I have no valid reason to change except for the fact that I'm curious to find out why many others seem to be migrating to static websites in droves.

Unable to add vCenter to vRB – invalid credentials

Mon, 24 Apr 2017 11:12:00 +0000

A lot of people have probably never tried vRealize Business. As more companies want a cloud like charging model, or to show the true cost of VMs, interest in these tools is picking up.

Usually vRB is deployed with vRA or vIDM, as it will use them as an authentication source.

One of the great features of vRB7.2 is that it can used in standalone mode without vRA or vIDM. This is great for a POC as it can use local accounts on the vRB appliance.

Faking vCenter alarms

Fri, 14 Oct 2016 23:33:00 +0000

Larger environments tend to integrate their monitoring and ticketing systems. Some also add automated workflows based on alarms. The problem when setting up these workflows is how do you test the workflow is triggered based on specific alarms?

With thanks to William Lam for the tips, it’s possible to trigger specific events that make up alarms. It’s not a simple task (for someone who’s not a developer), but you can do some trial and error to work out how to trigger each event.

ESXi kickstart with Python

Wed, 07 Sep 2016 11:42:00 +0000

I recently spent some time building kickstart files. Something I hadn’t done much since 2008. The most noticeable change in the process is I’m older and fatter. I re/learnt a few things, and did my first ever python script.

First up, William Lam has plenty of articles on the topic, and the official vSphere installation doco is pretty good too.

While testing, it’s much easier to link to a kickstart file or scripts from a webserver than directly embedded on the boot CD. For a lightweight webserver on Windows, I’ve used mongoose-free-6.4 available at https://www.cesanta.com/products/binary.

If you need to customise the installation process further, you can use Ash shell commands, or python 2.7 by using the switch –interpreter=busybox | python.

To see which python modules are available, view /lib/python2.7 on your ESXi host.

2016 Australian / New Zealand vExperts

Sat, 06 Feb 2016 12:16:00 +0000

The list of 2016 vExperts was officially announced by VMware. This year sees a total of 1374 people awarded the title of vExpert. Australia / New Zealand represent 4.2% of the total vExpert numbers.

This year the vExpert nomination form asked for your country, so lets hope VMware publish that info. So for now, this is a list of names we recognise as from Australia or New Zealand.

Combining PowerCLI & ESXCLI to change PSP on a Large Scale

Sun, 15 Feb 2015 19:30:00 +0000

Using PowerCLI you can use Set-ScsiLun -MultipathPolicy “RoundRobin” to set the PSP, but I found it quite slow using it on a large scale. It would update one datastore on one host every 5 seconds. If there were 10 ESXi hosts with 200 Datastores, that’s 2000 operations, at 5 seconds each, it adds up to 3 hours. The same can be done using ESXCLI extremely quickly, but it’s run on each host. If only there was a way to combine PowerCLI and ESXCLI.

2015 Australian / New Zealand vExperts

Sun, 08 Feb 2015 19:00:00 +0000

VMware announced the list of 2015 vExperts during the week. Congratulations to all that made it. The list now contains over 1,000 vExperts.

For something perhaps a bit more relevant in the A/NZ region, I’ve broken it down for us.

The numbers haven’t changed that much due to the 3 selection rounds of vExperts in 2014.

For the A/NZ region, the numbers increased by 3, with 4 people not renewed as vExperts (most likely because they didn’t submit an entry). Melbourne still holds as a clear winner with the most active VMware community, but I’m sure the other regions will gain momentum this year.

Office Arguments – Maximum VMDK size is NOT 2TB-512bytes

Tue, 23 Dec 2014 19:30:00 +0000

…if you want to use snapshots

Pop Quiz
Q: What’s the maximum size VMDK you could create in vSphere 5.1 or earlier?

A: Most people that have studied for VCP will know the maximum VMDK size is 2TB minus 512 bytes. If you create a disk in the GUI, it allows you to choose 2TB, but it’s smart enough to minus 512 bytes.

So technically that’s the maximum VMDK size, but you should NOT create it that big.

Maximum Disks Per SCSI Controller is NOT 15

Mon, 22 Dec 2014 03:22:00 +0000

Pop Quiz

Q: What’s the maximum number of disks per SCSI Controller?

A: It depends.. On your VCP exam, you would have said 15. Correct.

Although if you want to clone or snapshot and quiesce a VM, the maximum is 7 disks per SCSI controller.

Each SCSI Controller can control 15 disks and the quiesced snapshots in Windows 2008 require one available slot per existing disk.

If you have more than 7 disks, the clone / quiesce part will fail, and you’ll have the following errors in vCenter and the VM’s vmware.log:

SRM – IP Customisation error

Fri, 19 Dec 2014 22:30:00 +0000

During an SRM (5.0) failover, a VM failed during the IP customisation failed at step 11. It was strange as we hadn’t seen this error in quite a while.

11. Power On Priority 3 VMs Error – Cannot complete customization, possibly due to a scripting runtime error or invalid script parameters (Error code: -1). IP settings may have been partially applied.

Looking through the SRM logs, they pointed to an error in C:WindowsTEMPvmware-imcguestcust.log at the VM guest.

Web Client Sucks – Use VM Remote Console (VMRC)

Wed, 12 Nov 2014 19:10:00 +0000

Lets face it, there’s lots of things the web client sucks at. Using a console window in the browser is one of them.

This bar at the top of the console window just takes up space. How about a useful hint, tell me how to get rid of this to make more use of the screen.

Learning Powershell – Beginner Steps

Sun, 02 Nov 2014 18:55:00 +0000

I had a lot of trouble getting into PowerCLI. I knew some of the basic commands, but I never used it to do anything productive. The biggest site I managed had 150 VM’s, and I could do most tasks quickly through the vSphere client.

Since then I’ve changed jobs, and now there’s thousands of VM’s to manage!

Coming into such a large environment, I’ve had to learn Powershell and PowerCLI out of necessity.

Two weeks after XtremIO Gotcha

Sun, 28 Sep 2014 00:14:00 +0000

It’s been 2 weeks since I blogged about the XtremIO Gotcha, and the story has since been covered by many people and news services (See previous post for links).

Chad Sakac quickly responded on his blog, and if you read through the comments, he says they’ll take care of customers:

“I’ll say one thing more: we planned a ton of free services (and swing hardware!) to help customers and partners that need it – at NO COST TO THEM. The customer gets a better, faster solution – for free. This is “customer first”, from top to bottom.” – Chad Sakac

XtremIO Gotcha

Sun, 14 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000

17th Sept update: I’ve been contacted directly by EMC, and they say they’ll work through this with us. Sounds promising. There’s been a lot of coverage on the topic. I’ve provided additional links at the end of the post.The funniest comment I’ve read so far is “More like Xtrem uh-oh”.

16th Sept update: here’s an official response from Chad Sakac http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2014/09/on-disruptive-upgrades.html

While at VMworld last month, I was networking with attendees when I mentioned my current employer purchased an XtremIO half X-Brick for a VDI project.

Before you go to VMworld

Sat, 09 Aug 2014 23:00:00 +0000

You’ve got flights & accommodation, VMworld ticket, and sessions picked. There’s a few more of the boring, but important tasks that you should take care of before you leave for VMworld. Spoken like a true dad.

Travel Insurance – hopefully you won’t need it, but it’s something you should get in case you lose items or need medical assistance. Make sure you understand what’s covered.

Register with smarttraveller.gov.au – for those in Australia. It provides travel advisories and assists to find you in an emergency – whether it is a natural disaster, civil disturbance or family emergency . Check for similar schemes in your country.

Apply for ESTA – if you’re not from USA, you may be required to obtain ESTA if using a Visa Waiver Program. Make sure you use the official site. It’s valid for 2 years. Have a copy on you while travelling to USA.

Notify your bank – banks are pretty good with detecting fraud, but they might be over zealous and block your credit/debit card if they suddenly detect transactions in San Francisco.

More Aussie vExperts / VCDX’s

Sat, 12 Jul 2014 11:00:00 +0000

Back in April, I did a post when VMware announced 754 vExperts for 2014. This week, 123 were named vExperts from the Q2 nominations.

That adds another 2 Aussie vExperts to the list; Tim Williams (@ymmit85) and Matthew Healy (@matt232h). By my count, we now have 24 vExperts in Australia.
Melbourne: 17
Brisbane: 4
Perth: 2
Sydney:1 (Nick Marshall moved to USA VMware HQ)

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  @pandom_
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<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  Melbourne
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  Spiteri
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  @anthonyspiteri
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  Perth
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  Stebbing
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  @ArronStebbing
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  Melbourne
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  Troch
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  @virtualb_me
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  Singapore
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  Jones
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  @cpjones44
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  Melbourne
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  Waters
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  @cswaters1
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  Melbourne
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  Frith
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  @penguinpunk
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  Brisbane
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  Manconi
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  @dmanconi
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  New Zealand
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  Barclay
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  @davidbarclay99
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  Brisbane
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  Rahman
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  @frtamal
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  Fan
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  @frankfan7
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  Melbourne
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  Orchard
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  @grantorchard
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  Melbourne
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  Mulholland
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  @g_mulholland
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  Melbourne
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  Rahabok
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  @e1_ang
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  Singapore
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  Odgers
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  @josh_odgers
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  Melbourne
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  Warren
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  @jpwarren
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  Melbourne
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  Shelden
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  @Keiran_Shelden
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  Brisbane
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  Sidhu
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  @MannySidhu2
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  Melbourne
</td>

<td style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  Webster
</td>

<td style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  @vcdxnz001
</td>

<td style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  New Zealand
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  Wheat
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  @wheatcloud
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  Melbourne
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  Waite
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  @rob_waite_oz
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  Melbourne
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  McBride
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  @RyanMcBride81
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  Sydney
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  White
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  @ausvmguy
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  Melbourne
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  Tareq
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  Brisbane
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  Williams
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  @ymmit85
</td>

<td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">
  Perth
</td>

2014 APAC vExperts

Name

Alastair

Andre

Andrew

Anthony

Arron

Benjamin

Chris

Craig

Dan

David

Faisal

Frank

Grant

Greg

Iwan

Josh

Justin

Keiran

Mandeepak

Michael

Nathan

Rob

Ryan

Shane

Tas

Tim

vExpert 2014 Q3 nominations are open until September 2014. Nominate yourself, or someone that’s done a lot for the community. This is the last chance for 2014.

vSphere Client Storage Views tab not showing any infomation

Wed, 04 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000

The storage views tab in the vSphere client disappeared, and vCenter System Services displayed some of the following errors:

unable to retrieve health data from https://localhost:443/vsm/health.xmlunable to retrieve health data from https://localhost:443/eam/eamService-web/health.xmlunable to retrieve health data from https://localhost:443/SMS/health.xml

Is Host Isolation Response set right for you?

Sun, 01 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Coming in to manage a virtual environment that’s already up and running, you guess it’s set up correctly for the most part. As time goes on, you may pick up a few things here and there to improve it. But what got me recently was the business’s interpretation of VMware’s HA.

Know your environment, understand the options

During a switch failure causing network isolation of a host, the business wanted to know why their VM’s weren’t restarted on the remaining hosts. Although it was working as expected according to VMware’s Host Isolation Response setting, but the business didn’t see it the same way.

Running Dell DSET remotely on ESXi

Sun, 25 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000

For those using Dell hardware, when you log the job with Dell Support, they’ll ask you to run a DSET report. This collects various information of the server including service tag, all hardware devices, firmware versions etc.

There’s 3 ways to get DSET info.

Install DSET locally
Run DSET LiveCD
Run DSET remotely and create a report on a local server.

Each option has their pros and cons.

The DSET download is available at www.dell.com/dset.

Installing Dell OpenManage on ESXi

Sat, 24 May 2014 02:00:00 +0000

Dell OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA) provides detailed information about the hardware. Handy to find out details of the physical drives, memory sticks and if there’s any failed components.

If you log a support call with Dell, chances are they will ask for more details, and possibly a DSET report, and having OMSA already installed, makes life easier.

Dell also leaverage the features of OMSA with other management packages such as OpenManage Essentials and the vSphere plugin.

Melbourne VMUG May 2014 Wrap up

Thu, 22 May 2014 03:00:00 +0000

Last week we had the quarterly VMUG meeting at the Telstra Conference Centre.

We paid homage to the creator of the VMware community, John Troyer, as he’s moved on from VMware after 9 years. John was responsible for the vExpert program, in which 16 were from Melbourne this year.

If you want to participate in the VMUG community and perhaps become a vExpert, contact us about doing a community presentation. If you’re nervous or unsure, look into the @Feed4ward program. We’re here to help you succeed.

Congrats Aussie vExperts

Sun, 06 Apr 2014 10:45:00 +0000

Congratulations to all the vExperts from Australia, New Zealand & Singapore. It’s an honour to be included with such great local talent.

Back in 2010, Greg Mulholland was the only vExpert that I actually knew in Australia. Now we have 23 in Australia, and 5 in New Zealand & Singapore.

It’s great to see Melbourne VMUG members dominate the list of vExperts in our region. This is probably why the Melbourne VMUG has such a great turnout and so many community sessions.

vBeers – Thursday 3rd April

Sun, 30 Mar 2014 10:30:00 +0000

Virtualisation is thirsty work

Because there’s never enough time at the Melbourne VMUG to catchup with members, we’re having an in-between VMUG vBeers at Trunktown. If you can’t wait for the next VMUG, this should keep you going for another 6 weeks until the next Melbourne VMUG, on 15th May, 2014.

There’s no official agenda, meeting topic, speakers or sponsors. It’s a social occasion of virtualisation folks having a few drinks. With no sponsor, you’ll be paying you’re own way. It’s perfectly fine to drink water, or you can show off how much of a high flyer you are with buying fancy drinks with umbrellas. It’s up to you.

Top vBlogs 2014 A/NZ

Sat, 29 Mar 2014 11:30:00 +0000

You're all winners Eric Siebert announced the results of the top virtualisation blogs the other day and it was great to see the local Australia/New Zealand guys score well.

These bloggers really are "community guys". They're all active on twitter, and have participated in a VMUG at some level.

Here are the Australia/New Zealand voting results…

Blog	Rank	Previous	Change	Total Votes	Total Points	#1 Votes
Long White Virtual Clouds (M. Webster)	13	21	+8	178	1040	11
CloudXC (Josh Odgers)	21	NEW	NEW	75	494	7
Demitasse (Alastair Cooke)	93	128	+35	33	165	1
Proudest Monkey (Grant Orchard)	95	NEW	NEW	31	164	1
Craigwaters.org	136	203	+67	29	129	0
Penguinpunk.net (Dan Frith)	184	109	-75	21	95	2
The Odd Angry Shot (Andrew Dauncey)	209	NEW	NEW	18	85	0
Hosting is Life! (Anthony Spiteri)	233	NEW	NEW	13	74	3
Musings of Rodos (Rodney Haywood)	245	93	-152	20	71	0

Eric Siebert has a tough job policing any fake votes, but as you can see, 18 pranksters made it through and voted for this blog. Ha!

2014 Melbourne VMUG User Conference Wrap up

Mon, 03 Mar 2014 18:30:00 +0000

Record attendance

Wow, we had 374 attendees at the Melbourne VMUG User Conference. The awesome turnout to this and other Melbourne VMUG events show’s we’re the premiere VMUG is the region. The steering committee of Craig Waters, Damien Calvert, Tony McPhail, Nathan Wheat and myself put in a huge effort to pull this one off.

Keynotes

International vRockstars Brad Hedlund (@bradhedlund), Chris Wahl (@ChrisWahl) and Scott Lowe (@scott_lowe) rocked it with the main keynotes. It’s such an honour to have talent like that speak at the event.

2014 Melbourne VMUG User Conference

Thu, 30 Jan 2014 21:00:00 +0000

It’s on again!

This years Melbourne VMUG User Conference is coming up next month on Tuesday 4th February at Hilton on the Park.

This will be the third User Conference Melbourne has done. We’re expecting more than 350 attendees this year.

International special guests Scott Lowe, Brad Hedlund and Chris Wahl will each be doing a keynote session.

There’ll be 24 sponsors in the solutions exchange to show you their products and answer questions on how they work.

vForum Sydney Wrap Up

Sun, 19 Jan 2014 09:00:00 +0000

Last year I went to vForum in Sydney (October 2013). This is the premier virtualisation event in the ANZ region.

Lost in Translation

I called the hotel the day before to confirm the reservation of a room with 2 singles. They informed me all they had was a room with 1 queen bed. This wasn’t going to work, as I was sharing a room with a mate to keep costs down. On the way to the airport, my travel agent looked into it, and called me back explaining the hotel had simply run out of rooms with 2 singles, so I had to make do with a queen bed. I was dumbstruck. “Isn’t that the whole point of a reservation?” I asked. Flashbacks to Seinfeld and the ‘car reservation’ ran through my mind.

Look after yourself and your data

Sun, 05 Jan 2014 10:00:00 +0000

A long time ago in a galaxy far away..

Looking back at my younger days of IT, I had plenty of time and disposable income. I spent plenty of all-nighters installing and breaking linux distros and various other toys, and when it did break, it took many hours of troubleshooting or eventually re-installing and re-configuring again. (backups? pfft).

As I get older, I find myself paying extra for better quality products that save me time and make my life easier.

Missing VM NIC

Fri, 29 Nov 2013 06:00:00 +0000

The Disappearing Act

A VM went off the network, and actually lost the NIC from within the VM’s hardware.

Pouring through logs, (some thanks to LogInsight, more on that later), I discovered in vmware-xx.log:

2013-11-19T07:33:01.246Z| vcpu-0| Powering off Ethernet0
2013-11-19T07:33:01.246Z| vcpu-0| Hot removal done.

ah ha! This shows Ethernet0 was removed via the “Safely Remove Hardware” icon in the Windows system tray.

The solution is to add a new NIC of the same type.

Updating powershell help

Fri, 15 Nov 2013 06:00:00 +0000

When installing Powershell v3, it doesn’t install any local help files for get-help. If you are upgrading from v2 to v3, the help isn’t updated either.

If you are using a proxy, a simple update-helpmay not work for you.

Do the following:

1$webclient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
2$creds = Get-Credential
3$webclient.Proxy.Credentials = $creds
4update-help

This will connect to the internet and download the updated help files.

Constant Alarm ‘Network Uplink Redundancy Lost’

Tue, 12 Nov 2013 03:00:00 +0000

It’s amazing how much is going on when you dig through logs. On this occasion I was looking at “tasks & events” of a host and noticed a lot of network errors.

Alarm ‘Network uplink redundancy lost’ on triggered an action

The error was occurring every 5 minutes. This was made visual with the use of Log Insight. My new favourite tool.

VCA Exams Worthless?

Mon, 28 Oct 2013 04:30:00 +0000

VMware released the VMware Certified Associate (VCA) exams at VMworld San Francisco 2013. These are entry level exams, below VCP, aimed at people just getting into virtualisation or not quite ready to sit the VCP exams.

Bloggers are saying great things about the VCA exams. I spoke with a few people at vForum Sydney recently on the new certifications, and I’m glad I’m not the only one to have a different opinion on them.

My VCAP-DCA experience

Wed, 09 Oct 2013 19:43:00 +0000

Everyone else has done one, so I hope there’s something unique that comes out of this.

The Study

I made some notes as I was studying for VCAP-DCA, so these may not necessarily reflect what was on the exam.

I found an awesome ESXTOP poster at vmworld.net. No idea how I hadn’t come across this before.

I’d never really used esxcli much. I’d cut & paste esxcfg/vicfg lines that I’ve been hanging on to, but these commands were mainly for ESX3/4. esxcli has been greatly improved with ESXi5.x, so this is what you want to learn. Not everything is available in esxcli, such as setting up SNMP, you need to use vicfg-snmp, as there’s no equivalent esxcli command in ESXi5.0. BUT… there is for ESXi5.1. Remember, the exam is based on 5.0, so you may have to use a variety of methods.

2013 September Melbourne VMUG

Mon, 23 Sep 2013 22:55:00 +0000

The September Melbourne VMUG was on this week, and it was a ripper.

The agenda was set for:

EMC Presentation: Continuous Availability with VPLEX – Berin Smithson
VMware Presentation: What’s New in vSphere 5.5 – Greg Mulholland
Building a Service Provider Cloud Offering – Arron Stebbing

Coming off VMworld only 3 weeks before, we knew there was a lot of great info to pass on to the crowd, and there was a higher than average number of registrations. The room was packed.

Force mount missing datastores

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 06:57:00 +0000

By accident while in Cluster Settings / Datastore Heartbeating, I noticed a datastore wasn’t available of one of the hosts.

Trying to mount it from the vSphere client failed with a popup:
Call “HostStorageSystem.ResolveMultipleUnresolvedVmfsVolumes” for object “storageSystem-326” on vCenter Server “vcenter” failed.

The command to force mount a snapshot that is persistent has changed from ESX(i)4.x to ESXi5.0.

Sit the IaaS exam for US$11

Sat, 27 Jul 2013 22:56:00 +0000

After reading the #vBrownBag IaaS study guide from @coolsport00, and exams being 75% off at VMworld, I decided to book the IaaS exam. The exam is usually US$225.

I booked it using the VMworld SF 75% discount code, and thought I’d be cheeky and try and apply the VMUG Advantage 20% discount as well. It worked! It appears to do the 20% off the ORIGINAL price of the exam.

So at the checkout screen, it was saying the total cost would be US$11.25.

Slope info magic number check failed

Fri, 19 Jul 2013 04:57:00 +0000

While using Splunk I noticed 1 ESX host had a huge amount of logs compared with the others in that cluster. Looking into it, every hour there were about 23,000 entries for:

1storageRM:  Slope info magic number check failed. On disk 0x0, expected 0x1df5e76.

There was only 1 hit on google from a twitter conversation with @northlandboy & @blomjoh asking if anyone knew what the error was.

I logged an SR for it. But magically the next day, the error stopped appearing in the logs.

2013 July Melbourne VMUG

Sun, 14 Jul 2013 11:46:00 +0000

The next Melbourne VMUG is on Wednesday 24th July.

Veeam will be there doing live demos and talking about the upcoming release of v7 of Veeam Backup & Replication. Veeam has to be the most popular (and coolest) backup application.

VMware will be presenting vCAC – vCloud Automation Center. Going by the amount of submissions for VMworld on vCAC, this is going to be the next hottest thing VMware will be pushing.