As I explained in the introduction to this series, the HPE Firmware Management for VMware ESXi includes multiple components which must be coordinated with each other. This post will …
In most of the VMware vSphere Environments (and even more with vSAN) the firmware and driver management is a critical and at the same level annoying task. That’s one …
One of the biggest challenges in managing an enterprise platform (Compute, Storage, or even platforms like OpenShift) is the Capacity Planning Strategies. It’s a huge effort to find the …
Last few months I was involved in a rollout project of a large application on VMware vSphere. During the phases of the rollout, we had few tricky performance issues …
One of the highlights of the latest Veeam announcement is the Veeam Backup & Replication 11 RestAPI. Until now a RESTful API was only available for other products from …
Last few weeks I had a lot of discussions on how to make a VMware Private Cloud Environment accountable or measurable. In some situations, you need to design an …
Rightsizing of workload is always a huge topic in virtualized enterprise environments. It starts with how to get users to order the right size of VM and then eventually …
To further extend the hardening of my VMware ESXi hosts, I have been working on scripted ESXi NTP Security Configuration. I wanted to restrict access to the host’s NTP …
In this article, I will discuss the various VMware vSphere Site Availability Concepts and will try to work out how each concept can be applied to data centers, sites, …
I was really excited by Adam’s great Ansible Module for VMware Workstation. To use this Module from my Development Environment, VMware Workstation API remote access is necessary. You can …
A few years ago I have written a PowerCLI script to collect and report ESXi CDP informations. My use case of this script was the ability to verify the …
The capability to protect NFS and SMB Shares on file level was one of the most wanted features of Veeam Availability Suite v10. With prior versions, you only had …
Its been a while since I had the last time my hands-on VMware NSX. However, I have continued to follow with enthusiasm the great progress in the further development …
My journey with VMware vRealize Automation already started in the early 6.x-Days. Even then, I was absolutely thrilled by the flexibility and added value of this product. In the …
It’s been a while since I published anything about vRealize Orchestrator here. Besides Ansible and PowerCLI, the vRealize Orchestrator is still my first choice for the reliable automation of …
