Yesterday on the 27th of september in Fort Voordorp in Groenekan (Netherlands) ITQ held their Transform event. For those who could not attend this event, here is a little...
LACP and vSphere (ESXi) hosts: not a very good marriage
I receive a lot of questions from customers if they should implement LACP rather or not, so without further ado: In this blog I’m going to talk about if...
NSX-v: understanding and overcoming DFW firewall rule maximums
In this blog I’m going into the deep down holes of the DFW firewall rule maximums of VMware NSX for vSphere. As the stated maximum on the configmax-website are...
PowerCLI: Enable VSAN on existing (stretched) vSphere clusters as autonomously as possible
Introduction During my career I’ve done quite some vSphere and VSAN implementations . The hardest part of implementing VSAN on a vSphere cluster is (usually) the network part. Especially...
PowerCLI: Restart ESXi hosts in a cluster sequentially
below a script which allows you to restart the hosts in a vSphere cluster sequentially. It prompts you to select a cluster and it begins the reboot each host...
PowerCli: Creating VMK-if on the vmotion netstack on a DVS (with the correct gateway IP configured)
Good scripts are created out of frustration: And here’s a good example of this statement! I wasn’t able to find a script which was able to create a VMK-interface...
PowerCLI: retrieve VMhost routes used for stretched VSAN clusters.
When configuring a stretched VSAN cluster, the VSAN VMkernel interface is connected to the “default” netstack and manual routes must be added which point to VSAN subnet gateways, which...
PowerCli: bulk change ESXi root passwords with vCenter
sometimes you have to change the root password for all ESXi hosts.You can use the PowerCLI Set-VMHostAccount cmdlet. But this requires you to connect to each individual ESXi host,...
Some Useful PowerCLI scripts for VVD DIY-deployments
This blog contains some useful PowerCLI script which make the deployment of a VVD (4.3) a lot easier. It’s not a complete deployment script, some adjustments are needed. for...
Me presenting @NLVMUG: talking about modern datacenter security
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