Identifiying which slot an vSAN NVMe SSD is installed in 14th gen. Dell servers
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by Kai
2y ago
On most servers you can use the button Turn On LED in the Storage Devices view so that you can identify which drives can be safely removed from the server easily. However if the drive is a NVMe SSD (as the ones shown below) this button might have no effect. NVMe SSD drives In this example an entire disk group (2 TB cache disk and three 8 TB capacity disks) shall be moved from an ESXi host in a vSAN cluster with spare capacity to a host belonging to a cluster where more datastore space is needed. The process is repeated for all hosts until the storage configuration is homogenous across all clus ..read more
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Virtual Cloud Network Track at VMworld 2020 Online
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by Kai
3y ago
Due to travel restrictions and health concerns VMworld will not take place in USA and Europe this year but instead will be held online next week (29th September – 1st October). General admission is free and registration is easy. There is however an option to obtain a premium pass to have access to certain expert sessions. If you are interested in specific topics you can follow one or more of these seven learning tracks: App Modernization Multi-Cloud Intrinsic Security Digital Workspace Vision and Innovation Telco 5G Virtual Cloud Network Sessions in the Virtual Cloud Network track will cove ..read more
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VMworld Europe 2019 – Day 3 recap
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by Kai
4y ago
Wednesday General Session key note I tried to keep up with announcements during the second key note in this twitter thread. I highly recommend watching the recording as a large portion of the session consists of demos, and of course the motivational speech by Bear Grylls. VMUG Leader Lunch Everyone volunteering in a local VMware User Group community, so called Leaders, attending VMworld are invited to the Leader Lunch. Here a couple of individuals who went above the expected were honoured by VMUG representatives. Also all leaders were thanked by several VMware C-level executives for ..read more
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VMworld Europe 2019 – Day 2 recap
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by Kai
4y ago
vBreakfast Fred Hofer ‘imported’ the idea of a joint breakfast where some vCommunity members could start their day together with some coffee and snacks from Shane Williford who introduced this nice tradition in VMworld US. The first Barcelona edition took place in 2015 with only three people, and the now world famous ‘grumpy waiter’, who has his own Twitter hashtag now. Over the years the event grew bigger and is now usually sponsored by RuneCast (third time in a row). It was a fun experience and great way to have a chat or even meet new people. vBreakfast Europe 2019Tuesday General Sess ..read more
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VMworld Europe 2019 – Day 1 recap
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by Kai
4y ago
Pre VMworld VMUG Event Russel O’Connor and the other nice guys from the VMUG Barcelona team once more organised an event on Monday morning which I decided to start the day with. The event with the theme “Kubernetes in the spotlight” was again held at a conference room in the Hotel Porta Fira, which was crowded. This was probably caused by some prominent presenters. Besides some engineers from OVHcloud (the main sponsor of the event) Scott Lowe and Cormac Hogan talked about Kubernetes (“K8s”) in general and the interaction with VMware products today, e.g. Cluster API used to deploy and manag ..read more
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VMworld Europe 2019 – Day 0 recap
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by Kai
4y ago
VMUG leader gathering My second VMworld experience started with the VMUG leader gathering on Sunday, 3rd November 2019. It is an informal gathering of various represantatives of the VMUG program and leaders from all around the world. It was great chance to get to know the VMUG President Steve and Brad from VMUG leadership and other leaders who are in the business a bit longer than our newly created chapter “Rhein-Ruhr“. The gathering was held in a small but very stylish bar with a comfy atmosphere. Big thanks for the team organizing it! VMworld Europe 2019 – VMUG leader gatheringvRockst ..read more
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Getting ready for VMworld Europe 2019
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by Kai
4y ago
vCommunity Many people put a lot of effort in empowering people who are not active in the vCommunity or aren’t even aware of it. I am myself quite new to this network of people sharing interest in virtualization and cloud technology and what is possible with it, but can already say the support both virtually (mostly on Twitter, Slack) and in person (e.g. at VMUGs and conferences) is amazing. One of such people is Yadin Porter de Leon who founded the Level Up Project. The project’s goal is to make it easier to “newbies” to join the vCommunity and make the most of this network, be it learning ..read more
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Deploying a vRealize Network Insight 4.2 Collector/Proxy to receive NetFlow data from OPNsense routers
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by Kai
5y ago
vRealize Network Insight [vRNI] supports receiving and processing flow information from a variety of network equipment from different vendors out of the box, but also offers the possibility to ingest NetFlow/IPFix data from third party devices, e.g. physical routers. Assuming you already have you vRNI instance deployed head to the Settings page of your vRNI WebGUI and click on “Acounts and Data Sources” to add such data sources. If not you can deploy vRNI quickly using the vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager as described in this older blog post. It shows an older version of vRNI (4.1), but the ..read more
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Upgrading VMware NSX-T to version 2.4.1
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by Kai
5y ago
One week ago NSX-T version 2.4.1 (Build 13716575) was released. Dozens of resolved issues are listed in the release notes. The process of upgrading a deployment is depicted in this post. First step is to download the 7,5 GB upgrade bundle file and upload it in the first screen of the NSX-T GUI’s Upgrade section: VMware NSX-T 2.4.1 upgrade: Upgrade bundle uploadAfter the upload is complete the bundle is extracted and its compatibility matrix is checked. Afterwards the upgrade process can be started: VMware NSX-T 2.4.1 upgrade: Upgrade bundle upload completedThe obligatory End User Lice ..read more
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Updating VMware Cloud Foundation dark site deployment from 3.5.1 to 3.7
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by Kai
5y ago
Two weeks ago the latest and greatest in VMware’s SDDC came out: VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) version 3.7. Apart from including the current security patches (e.g. ESXi 6.7 EP 06 / build number 11675023) a couple of new automation features have been added, as you can see in the release notes. Also the cloud builder for setting up greenfield Cloud Foundation and VMware Validated Design deployments have been merged. As you can see in my tweet from a while back this used to be to separate OVA files. VCF 3.7 can be installed as a new deployment or upgraded from the previous version (3.5.1), wh ..read more
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