It seems with the vSphere 6.7 release (maybe sooner, not sure), the ability to add a Floppy drive has been removed when using the H5 client. There are some discussions internally about the reasoning but there is a quick fix. The PVSCSI driver is included in the VMware Tools so if you do require the PVSCSI adapter for performance reason, make ... >> Continue Reading <<
YES you can (work in I.T.)
I had a recent discussion with a friend - or rather person I know for a few years - about his job and what he wants to do. Conversation started with 'I am jealous because you work in I.T. and I never got the chance'. Guess what - me neither. So I told him a little story about by myself and thought, may as well write that down to hopefully ... >> Continue Reading <<
vRA 7.3 – Display Location on request ‘Broken’
Something has changed in 7.3 - or at least past 7.0 (haven't tried it in 7.1 / 7.2 I don't think) - with location selections. So either it is now broken (hence the word broken in single quotes) or it was broken before and wasn't supposed to work like that :) One way or another - either the implementation doesn't work anymore or the documentation ... >> Continue Reading <<
Homelab for sale (again) – UK
We have decided to convert our garage to an office - which will easily take 6 months so no point in having a server and storage collecting dust (can't have it in the house). For sale: Storage (delivery UK wide included) QNAP TS-563 4x Wester Digital Gold Datacenter 2TB (Storage) 1x Wester Digital Blue 500GB (Read Cache) 16 GB of ... >> Continue Reading <<
vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 1.0 GA
Kinda missed the whole thing - but oh man: vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager (vRSLCM) automates Day 0 to Day 2 operations of the entire vRealize Suite, enabling simplified operational experience for customers. The vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager automates install, configuration, upgrade, patch, configuration management, drift remediation and ... >> Continue Reading <<
DNS – It’s ALWAYS DNS …
Unless of course it is networks or databases :) Today I had an interesting problem. You know when there are DNS issues, usually it is quite obvious - but sometimes it really isn't - everything seems to be working - ish - but just not as fast as you'd hope. As you know - DNS was always THE mandatory requirement for any VMware solution - but ... >> Continue Reading <<