VMware ESXi Security Configuration with Ansible
If you read the vSphere 6.7 Update 1 Security Configuration Guide you will agree that the security configuration of VMware ESXi hosts is mostly about managing services, advanced options, …
My Ansible Development Setup
A few weeks ago I started digging into the Ansible universe. One of the first things I learned was the need for a proper Ansible Development Setup. My common …
Atlassian Bamboo PowerShell Pester Integration
Some time ago I have moved one of my PowerShell projects to a new Atlassian Bitbucket server with Bamboo connection for Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment. To continue using …
Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 Update 4 – PowerShell goodies
With all the Cmdlets for the new features in Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 Update 4 and the additional ones for exiting features, the number of Cmdlets of the …
Dashboard – Host vCPU to Core Allocation Ratio
With the release of the vRealize Operations Manager 7.0, VMware has changed the capacity planning behavior of the product. The vRealize Operations Manager 7.0 does not anymore make the Host vCPU …
Script – Create VMware vSphere NetApp NFS Volume
A few weeks ago I started to write a PowerShell Function that creates an optimized VMware vSphere NetApp NFS Volume and mounts this new volume to all VMware ESXi hosts …
vRealize Orchestrator – Manage Host Lockdown Mode and SSH Service
Most of the time does a high security standard not make you daily operation tasks easier, but anyway, a high security standard is necessary for a VMware Enterprise Environment. You …
Runecast Analyzer 2.0 – First impression
As Runecast Analyzer 2.0 was mentioned in a lot of discussions I had and blogs I appreciate, I wanted to give myself an impression of the latest release of the product. …
vRealize Operations Tenant App 2.0 for vCloud Director
Beside vRealize Operations Manager 7.0 has VMware also released the vRealize Operations Tenant App 2.0 and the vCloud Director Management Pack 5.0. These three releases form together with the NSX Management …
vCloud Director Dynamic Security Group with Tag
Within a past project I was working on a topic that was covered by Daniel Paluszek in his blog post Security Compliance – Pre-configure your vApp firewall rules inside vCloud Director …
Veeam log file analysis with PowerShell
A few weeks ago I did an Update of the Veeam Backup & Replication environment in my Lab. After the update I wanted to make sure everything went fine and …
NSX Troubleshooting – Management and Control Plane
This is the first article of my VMware NSX Troubleshooting series. I am aware that already a lot of other blog post around this topic have been published, but …
Compare installed VMware ESXi VIBs
Last Week I had to analyze a huge VMware vSphere environment regarding configuration issues and risks. One of the challenges was to Compare installed VMware ESXi VIBs, to make sure …
My second vExpert Sub Program Award
Yesterday Corey Romero announced the members of the vExpert NSX 2018 sub program. This is my second vExpert sub program beside the vExpert Cloud nomination in 2017. I am particularly …
PowerShell Module for Veeam Availability Orchestrator
As a VMware Site Recovery Manager enthusiast I was very interested in the new Veeam Availability Orchestrator. And finally I found the time to deploy and configure the new rising …