In my current role as a VMware architect, I architected a greenfield VMware vSphere 6.5 environment. The ‘old’ environment, who I architected 4 year ago, is VMware vSphere 5.5. As the old environment was never updated, the time and risk of upgrading this environment was too high. That’s why, we decided to go for a […]
While working at a customer’s site, I notice that a system administrator wanted to reboot a vSAN node. The time it took to shutdown the node was too long (30+ min) for the system administrator, so he used iDRAC to hard reset the host. I asked him, why he just didn’t wait until the host […]
VMworld Europe is just a few day away, and I’m looking forward to a week of fun stuff! One of the main reason why I go to VMworld, is to meet new people. I love a good (tech) conversation. It inspires me, in my day to day work. Not only as a IT person, but […]
For years I’ve been using kickstart for the installation and configuration of VMware ESXi. Who doesn’t know William Lam kickstart blogs? Using kickstart, I can do a fully unattended installation and configuration of ESXi. But, when using an HCI solution like Nutanix, host are pre-installed (foundation) with VMware ESXi, and the Nutanix CVM runs (as […]
VMworld world is around the corner, just 1 week left until all the fun kicks off. This year, I’m honored to get a blogger pass for the best tech event in the world! VMworld is a very deverise event, which is fundamental for my role als a VMware architect. Breakout sessions Many bloggers have published […]
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