Veeam Backup Protection Levels
Within this blog post, I will talk about the different protection levels of your Veeam backups that you can achieve with different concepts and technologies. An important role is …
HPE Firmware Management for VMware ESXi – Smart Update Tools Install Mode
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 …
HPE Firmware Management for VMware ESXi – Introduction
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 …
Capacity Planning Strategies
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 …
Scale-Out Application vs. NUMA Action-Affinity
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 …
Veeam Backup & Replication RestAPI Ansible Collection
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 …
Service Level Objectives for vSphere Clusters
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 …
Script – Apply Rightsizing Recommendations
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 …
ESXi NTP Security Configuration
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 …
VMware vSphere Site Availability Concepts
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, …
VMware Workstation API remote access
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 …
ESXi LLDP Uplink Details
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 …
Protect new NetApp NFS Exports with Veeam
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 …
VMware NSX-T 3.0 Highlights
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 …
vRealize Automation 8.1 Highlights
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 …