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 …
PowerShell Module for vCloud Director NSX API
With vCloud Director 8.20 has VMware started to let the tenants and admins consume NSX function via the vCloud Director API endpoint. The NSX function in vCloud Director are …
vCloud Director and vRealize Orchestrator Connection
The extension of VMware vCloud Director with vRealize Orchestrator Workflows for XaaS (Everything as a Service), like already existing in vRealize Automation, was a long awaited feature and let the …
PowerCLI – Create routed vCloud Director Org Network
While answering a VMware Community Thread I was finally motivated to do get some work done on my vCloud Director PowerShell Module. The new feature should be able to create …
Upload and Install ESXi Patch via PowerCLI
The Script I have created a few weeks ago is a little bit more than a simple Upload and Install ESXi Patch via PowerCLI. The Script uses for the installation …
Grafana Dashboard for vCloud Director
One of the points on my bucket list for 2018 was to learn more about Grafana. So I decided to create my own Grafana Dashboard for vCloud Director. Like my …
Veeam Integration with vRealize Operations Manager
To keep control of a complex Datacenter good monitoring tools are necessary. In my opinion one of the major feature of a good monitoring solution is the capability to …
New RSS Feed
Starting with the new year I try to publish my blog posts bilingual and most likely at some point only in English. For my English articles I have added an …
vRealize Operations Manager – Datastore Overprovisioning
Overprovisioning is a huge topic if you need to run a efficient environment. Especial Storage Overprovisioning has a lot of positive but also a few negative aspects, if you not have …
Setup vRealize Operations Tenant App for vCloud Director
The vRealize Operations Tenant App for vCloud Director can be set up in two different ways, as a standalone App or as a plug-in for the vCloud Dirctor HTML5 UI. With …
Efficient Veeam NetApp Backup from Storage Snapshot
As a part of a larger Veeam project I was looking for the most efficient Veeam setup with minimal impact to the whole virtualization and storage environment during the …