In the process of upgrading a vSAN ReadyNode cluster from ESXi 6.5 to 6.7 a warning appeared in the vSAN Health check. The first host in the cluster had gone through the upgrade and was now showing the warning “Controller driver is VMware certified” (Note 1 in the image below). The Dell HBA330 card was using an older …

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It was announced this week that registration for VMware’s VMworld 2019 conference will open at the beginning of May so now seems a good time to look at some of the key dates for the event. Call For Proposals – March-April The CFP process seems to be a little different this year being only open to VMware Employees (till …

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If you’re running VMware vCenter and ESXi 6.0 it’s time to start planning to upgrade as General Support ends on 12 March 2020- one year from now and five years from it’s release. Thankfully the upgrade from 6.0 to 6.5 or 6.7 is usually quite straightforward, and VMware have put a lot of work into streamlining this …

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A powered off VM on ESXi 6.5 will not power on and returns the error “Failed to power on virtual machine…. The attempted operation cannot be performed in the current state (Powered off)”. (i.e. the VM cannot be powered on BECAUSE it is not powered on!) Prior to being powered down the VM properties had just been …

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In two weeks I’ll be heading up to the annual UK VMware User Group meeting. This year a later VMworld Europe has pushed this conference’s date into Christmas season from it’s usual home in November and, speaking of homes, it’s relocated from the National Motorcycle Museum in Birmingham to the National Space Centre in …

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One of the new developments that caught my eye at VMworld this year was the introduction of file services to the VMware vSAN software-defined storage platform. vSAN already offers VMDK storage to vSphere and the ability to host iSCSI volumes, but this feature will allow NFS and SMB file-shares to be hosted directly on …

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Following on from a similar briefing at VMworld 2017 I sat down at this year’s event with a couple of the Rubrik execs to see what’s happened in the last 12 (and a bit) months, and what the future holds for the company. Last year Rubrik stood proudly on their flagship product- the “Brik” backup appliance and software, …

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A quick PowerCLI snippet for examining what VM Hardware versions exist in your virtual environment: Using the “Group-Object” cmdlet we can run up a quick count of all the VMs on each hardware version 1Get-VM | Group-Object Version 2 3Count Name Group 4—– —- —– 542 v13 {VM1,VM2,VM3…} 6257 v8 {VM4,VM5,VM6…} …

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A recording of my VMworld 2018 talk, thanks to the vBrownbag team. I believe every IT Ops person, SysAdmin, and vSphere administrator should do some coding, and this session will explain how to get started. This session will cover the core concepts required along with some PowerShell/ PowerCLI examples. The session is …

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Welcome to #VMworld Europe 2018 Posted by I.T. Should Just Work on Sunday, 4 November 2018 A quick look round the VMvillage just after VMworld Europe 2018 opened- click on the image for a 360 degree view. The village has the VMTN, VMware {code} stages, Partner and Alumni Lounges, Hands On Labs, CloudCred, and VMware …

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