Today was the first day of VMworld 2016 in Las Vegas and within the first of two General Sessions at the conference, VMware announced a new product dubbed Cloud Foundation. Cloud Foundation is a full stack integrated solution that will allow for seamless transition of your enterprise to utilize private and public clouds all in … Continue reading VMware Cloud Foundation – At a glance
Fixing crashed alerts service in Nutanix Prism
This week I ran across this issue randomly when I went to resolve some alerts through a STIG applied version of IE11. Prism itself was fully functional with the exception of any place where 'Alerts' would appear, I was met with: In order to properly troubleshoot, I SSH'd into a CVM, ran 'cluster status' to … Continue reading Fixing crashed alerts service in Nutanix Prism
Setup dual-home Nutanix cluster on Acropolis 4.6
Note: This is not a Nutanix best practice and should not be done before discussing the caveats of this with upper management. This is a unique situation I came across in the most recent build of a Nutanix cluster. The project required the Nutanix cluster to support 2 distinct and separate networks. Since the NTNX … Continue reading Setup dual-home Nutanix cluster on Acropolis 4.6
Citrix PVS 7.x : No servers available for disk
This error appeared out of the blue on a vDisk maintenance patch day after the scheduled auto-update was set to start. I was given notice by a colleague that the latest vDisk had failed and thus was not updated. Upon further investigation, turns out that when the update VM was set to boot, it pulls … Continue reading Citrix PVS 7.x : No servers available for disk
Homelab of Doom – Thanks to PernixData
Some of you may have seen on Twitter that I was the lucky, insanely lucky, winner of the VMworld 2015 PernixData Force Awakens Homelab. Winning it was so shocking, I stared at the Tweetdeck 'notification' column for a good 5 minutes in disbelief but low and behold, it was true! I've always been a huge … Continue reading Homelab of Doom – Thanks to PernixData
Citrix Xen Server 6.x Error: VDI Not Available
Enterprise team shot this issue up to me today which I hadn't seen before. There was a hung VDI VM in our Xen Server 6.5 farm that refused to boot. Every time it would attempt to power up, it would fail with the error of "VDI Not Available." Typically this occurs if a VM hangs … Continue reading Citrix Xen Server 6.x Error: VDI Not Available
vSphere Thick Client? I don’t need no stinkin’ thick client!
Quick post about an awesome, new VMware Fling that was released somewhat recently. I'm a little late to the party but I haven't needed to deploy a new host since its release until today. If you haven't heard, VMware Flings are small applications built by the VMware engineers that aren't officially supported immediately but can … Continue reading vSphere Thick Client? I don’t need no stinkin’ thick client!
Upgrading vCSA 6.0 to 6.0U1 without VAMI
Quick post here on updating your vCSA 6.0 in what I believe to be the fastest way to update your vCSA installation. The VAMI that comes with vCSA is a great little tool but I find it to be hit or miss at times so I wanted to find a more reliable and visible way … Continue reading Upgrading vCSA 6.0 to 6.0U1 without VAMI
vCSA 6.0 CLI Install
It is the week following VMworld 2015 so that marks my annual homelab wipe. I normally do this after every VMworld due to the renewed urge to test out all the new tricks I learned over the course of the week. In doing this, I decided to dunk the new vCSA6 web installer in lieu … Continue reading vCSA 6.0 CLI Install
Quick Script: Syslog Server Updater
Recently deployed a new syslog server and needed a script to update the ~20+ ESXi hosts as fast as possible. This is pretty cut and dry in terms of what happens... prompts for vCenter and Syslog addresses, then it updates the Syslog Server field on each host associated with that vCenter as well as allowing … Continue reading Quick Script: Syslog Server Updater