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After being online only in 2020 the UK VMware User Group event was back with a bang, catering for both online attendees and those making a return to Leicester last week. These are my highlights of that event. My trip to Leicester was a welcome return to in-person events for me. Whilst I’ve really appreciated the …
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The global pandemic of 2020 caused a lot of previously in-person events to go online. This means that even more events are now accessible to a global audience, and often at times that can fit around your work and home schedules. Here’s some upcoming tech events for May 2021. There’s some big events on in May- Microsoft …
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A few weeks ago I had to shutdown a vSAN Cluster temporarily for a planned site-wide 24 hour power outage that was blacking out a datacentre. With the amount of warning and a multi-datacentre design this wasn’t an issue, but I made use of vSphere tags and some Powershell/PowerCLI to help with the evacuation and …
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Or “How I’ve come to love my vSAN Ready Nodes” I’ll admit it, some years ago I was very cynical about HyperConverged Infrastructure (HCI). Outside of VDI workloads I couldn’t see how it would fit in my environment - and this was all down to the scaling model. With the building-block architecture of HCI; storage, …
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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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Ever wondered what those four-digit model numbers used on Dell Latitude devices (for example “Latitude 7275”) mean? This helpful guide should answer your questions. First Digit This shows the range the device belongs to. 3 is used the entry level “Essential” models, 5 on the mid range “Mainstream”, and 7 the high end …
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What to do when the VMware vSphere ESXi UNMAP command doesn’t release space on some or all volumes on a Dell EqualLogic SAN array running v8 firmware (may apply to other versions too). Symptoms Using the following command in an SSH session to a 6.0u2 host (again, will apply to other versions): 1esxcli storage vmfs …
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Symptoms When running the diag command from the Dell EqualLogic CLI (via a SSH session to an EqualLogic member) the process proceeds as normal but never completes, and the SSH session is eventually terminated. Repeating the operation produces the same result. Example Output: 1login as: grpadmin 2grpadmin@xxxxx's …
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