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Clone VMDK without vCenter (ESXi Free/Standalone ESXi)

22/03/2016 by Myles Gray Leave a Comment

It’s sometimes necessary to clone VMs when you don’t have a vCenter, either because you plain don’t have one in a small customer environment or you are doing a deploy and don’t have vCenter deployed yet – you’ve created a template VM for Windows or such and want to roll out some DCs and management […]

Filed Under: Infrastructure

VMware vExpert 2016

08/02/2016 by Myles Gray Leave a Comment

Just a quick share, I applied to the VMware vExpert program at the end of last year, almost completely forgot about it until this showed up in my Feedly today: http://blogs.vmware.com/vmtn/2016/02/vexpert-2016-award-announcement.html?src=vmw_so_vex_mgray_1080 A quick Ctrl + F and there I am :) Should show up in the directory soon enough: https://communities.vmware.com/vexpert.jspa?src=vmw_so_vex_mgray_1080 This is more of just […]

Filed Under: Personal, Virtualisation Tagged With: blogging, vexpert, vmware

[Ref] Configure vRealize Orchestrator 6.0.3 with vCenter 6.0 U1

29/10/2015 by Myles Gray Leave a Comment

Spent longer than necessary messing with vRealize Orchestrator and trying to get it to display the plugin in vCenter server appliance 6.0 U1, you can review my trials and tribulations here: https://communities.vmware.com/thread/523397?src=vmw_so_vex_mgray_1080 I have been trying to deploy vRealize Orchestrator 6.0.3 with my VCSA 6.0 U1 instance (supported according to compatibility matrix), the symptoms are […]

Filed Under: Automation, Infrastructure Tagged With: automation, vcsa, vrealize orchestrator, vsphere 6

VSAN Observer RVC in vCenter Appliance 6.0 U1

06/10/2015 by Myles Gray 1 Comment

I have been working with VSAN in the lab recently and had the need to get some deeper stats on the inner operations. I had upgraded the lab to ESXi 6.0 U1 and vCenter 6.0 U1 and for the life of me couldn’t get the RVC console in the VCSA to work per the VMware […]

Filed Under: Security Tagged With: esxi, esxi 6.0, vmware, vsan, vsan observer, vsphere

Guest post for Ravello Systems

28/08/2015 by Myles Gray Leave a Comment

I was recently approached to write a guest blog post for Ravello Systems on Novosco’s use of their AWS/GCE hosted ESXi labs for CI automation testing. Why not follow @mylesagray on Twitter for more like this!

Filed Under: Cloud Frameworks, Infrastructure, Virtualisation Tagged With: aws, cloud, esxi, gce, lab, ravello, vmware

My VMWorld 2015 Schedule

25/08/2015 by Myles Gray Leave a Comment

With VMWorld EMEA not far over the horizon, I’ve finally managed to get past the seemingly never ending blockade of the vmworld.com website and booked my sessions, Below you can see the sessions i’ve booked as well as my interests (in case my brain melts due to too much or a single subject matter). My […]

Filed Under: Infrastructure, Virtualisation Tagged With: hybrid cloud, nsx, sddc, vmware, vmworld

Photography Trip to Chernobyl, Ukraine

20/08/2015 by Myles Gray Leave a Comment

I am very passionate about my photography, usually I’ll go on a few trips a year just for that and this was one of those instances. I’ve decided I might as well start posting them up here so I have a nice centralised location I can give to people that want to see them. We […]

Filed Under: Personal Tagged With: chernobyl, photography, pripyat, trip, ukraine

VMware NIC Load Balancing and Teaming, the Math

11/08/2015 by Myles Gray 4 Comments

While doing some research for NSX setups I found the urge to delve deeper into the calculations of some of ESXi’s load-balancing and teaming types that are available, below I have outlined the scenarios, calculations (where appropriate) and recommendations when it comes to choosing a NIC load balancing and teaming type. Why not follow @mylesagray […]

Filed Under: Networks, Virtualisation Tagged With: load-balancing, nic, teaming, vDS, vmware

Deploying Dell OpenManage on ESXi and vCenter 6

26/07/2015 by Myles Gray 3 Comments

If you’ve been reading my other posts of late, you will have gathered I’ve been building a new lab. I say “new”, the last one was a single R710 with a ReadyNas Ultra 6 attached. So essentially, this is my first REAL lab. It’s mostly based on Dell hardware; it’s cheap on eBay, I like […]

Filed Under: Hardware, Infrastructure, Software, Virtualisation Tagged With: dell, esxi, omivv, openmanage, update manger, vcenter, vmware, vsphere 6, vUM

vSphere HA Configuration fails: Operation Timed Out

22/07/2015 by Myles Gray 4 Comments

I recently rebuilt my lab and added 2x new ESXi hosts, I re-used my old single host in the process which I upgraded from ESXi 5.5 to 6.0 and patched to the same level as the new hosts. Everything was working as expected until it came for the time to enable HA. My old host […]

Filed Under: Infrastructure, Networks, Virtualisation Tagged With: esxi, ha, jumbo frame, ssl, vcenter, vmware

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