Practical guides for Kubernetes, VMware, cloud native infrastructure, networking, and automation.https://veducate.co.uk/en-gbhttps://veducate.co.uk/helm-upgrade-reuse-values-nil-pointer-error/https://veducate.co.uk/helm-upgrade-reuse-values-nil-pointer-error/If you have been running a Helm chart for a while and using --reuse-values to carry your previous configuration forward on upgrades, you may have hit an error…Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:05:25 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/bridging-old-hypervisors-to-cloud-native-platforms-what-youll-learn-at-cisco-live-amsterdam/https://veducate.co.uk/bridging-old-hypervisors-to-cloud-native-platforms-what-youll-learn-at-cisco-live-amsterdam/Are you planning or already facing a migration from legacy hypervisors to modern, cloud native platforms? The toughest part usually isn’t compute or storage…Mon, 08 Dec 2025 11:00:51 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/increase-cpu-memory-limits-splunk-operator-kubernetes-node-selector-fix/https://veducate.co.uk/increase-cpu-memory-limits-splunk-operator-kubernetes-node-selector-fix/The Issue When deploying a Splunk instance using the Splunk Operator on Kubernetes, the default resource limits are set to 4 CPUs and 8GB of RAM. Users often…Tue, 04 Nov 2025 16:23:01 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/cilium-network-policies-from-first-principles-to-production/https://veducate.co.uk/cilium-network-policies-from-first-principles-to-production/This post teaches the Cilium policy model with clear scenarios and annotated YAML. It matches the style of practical technical blogs, explanation first and…Tue, 07 Oct 2025 09:53:42 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/fix-kubernetes-configuration-file-group-world-readable-warning/https://veducate.co.uk/fix-kubernetes-configuration-file-group-world-readable-warning/The Issue When using kubectl or oc you may see warnings that your Kubernetes configuration file is readable by group or by everyone. WARNING: Kubernetes…Wed, 03 Sep 2025 14:09:40 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/zoom-error-5456000-unable-to-connect/https://veducate.co.uk/zoom-error-5456000-unable-to-connect/The Issue I've been plagued with this issue on one single macos device for a while and I've not been sure as to why, I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling…Thu, 22 May 2025 09:42:39 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/clean-up-orphaned-fcds-vmware-vsphere-powercli/https://veducate.co.uk/clean-up-orphaned-fcds-vmware-vsphere-powercli/vSphere Orphaned First Class Disk (FCD) Cleanup Script Orphaned First Class Disks (FCDs) in VMware vSphere environments are a surprisingly common and…Thu, 15 May 2025 14:39:24 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/kubevirt-for-vsphere-admins-deep-dive-guide/https://veducate.co.uk/kubevirt-for-vsphere-admins-deep-dive-guide/As a vSphere administrator, you've built your career on understanding infrastructure at a granular level, datastores, DRS clusters, vSwitches, and HA…Mon, 28 Apr 2025 12:10:15 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/kubernetes-finalizers-pvc-terminating/https://veducate.co.uk/kubernetes-finalizers-pvc-terminating/This article builds upon an old post I wrote many years ago: Kubernetes PVC stuck in Terminating state. That post covered the symptoms and quick fixes. This…Wed, 23 Apr 2025 15:58:07 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/kubernetes-nodeselector-vs-nodeaffinity-scheduling/https://veducate.co.uk/kubernetes-nodeselector-vs-nodeaffinity-scheduling/When deploying workloads in Kubernetes, controlling where your pods land is crucial. Two primary mechanisms facilitate this: nodeSelector and nodeAffinity.…Wed, 16 Apr 2025 09:37:54 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/highlight-kubernetes-labels-in-your-terminal-with-awk/https://veducate.co.uk/highlight-kubernetes-labels-in-your-terminal-with-awk/A quick tip and bit of code: if you're outputting a lot of Kubernetes metadata using the --show-labels command, it can feel like looking for a needle in a…Tue, 15 Apr 2025 14:21:23 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vsphere-csi-driver-images-unable-from-gcr-io-quick-fix/https://veducate.co.uk/vsphere-csi-driver-images-unable-from-gcr-io-quick-fix/The Issue Someone has deleted the Cloud-Provider-vSphere project in the gcr.io registry for container images. The default pull policy for the vSphere CSI when…Thu, 19 Sep 2024 14:03:21 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/work-in-tech-marketing/https://veducate.co.uk/work-in-tech-marketing/Does working in Tech Marketing appeal to you? Or another associated role, maybe DevRel, or a similar title? Are you looking for the next career ladder step, or…Tue, 20 Aug 2024 14:00:04 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/understanding-cilium_event_type-when-using-cilium-hubble/https://veducate.co.uk/understanding-cilium_event_type-when-using-cilium-hubble/The Issue In a platform that's deployed with Cilium, when using Hubble either to view the full JSON output or to configure which events are captured using the…Mon, 08 Jul 2024 10:38:09 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/kubevirt-datavolume-storage-spec-is-missing/https://veducate.co.uk/kubevirt-datavolume-storage-spec-is-missing/The Issue I had a freshly deployed Red Hat OpenShift cluster on which I had set up OpenShift Virtualization (KubeVirt). When I tried to create my first data…Mon, 24 Jun 2024 08:42:27 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/cilium-hubble-cli-configure-auto-completion/https://veducate.co.uk/cilium-hubble-cli-configure-auto-completion/One of the little nits I have is when I use the terminal, and as I start typing a command if I press the Tab key, autocomplete doesn't work. It feels like it…Wed, 10 Apr 2024 09:55:49 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/cilium-hubble-cli-using-a-local-configuration-file/https://veducate.co.uk/cilium-hubble-cli-using-a-local-configuration-file/Did you know that the Cilium Hubble CLI supports using a configuration file? Below is an example command where Isovalent Enterprise for Cilium is deployed and…Tue, 09 Apr 2024 08:22:09 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/migrate-red-hat-openshiftsdn-ovn-kubernetes-cilium/https://veducate.co.uk/migrate-red-hat-openshiftsdn-ovn-kubernetes-cilium/Recently, I'm seeing more and more queries about migrating to Cilium within an existing Red Hat OpenShift cluster, due to Cilium's advanced networking…Thu, 04 Jan 2024 10:10:08 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vsphere-esxi-8-0u2-cbt-data-loss/https://veducate.co.uk/vsphere-esxi-8-0u2-cbt-data-loss/The Issue I keep saying, there are no new ideas in technology, just re-hashes of old ones. That is also true for VMware and their data loss issues. The…Fri, 15 Dec 2023 13:56:24 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/grafana-unable-to-login-user-already-exists/https://veducate.co.uk/grafana-unable-to-login-user-already-exists/The Issue When trying to log into Grafana Web UI using an OIDC provider, in my case, Dex. The login would fail due to the error "User already exists", after…Thu, 14 Dec 2023 14:24:04 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/google-analytics-ga4-granular-referral-source-data/https://veducate.co.uk/google-analytics-ga4-granular-referral-source-data/The Issue Moving over to the new Google Analytics GA4 from UA, has caused me a few issues, mainly I wasn't able to get granular source data from my referrals…Mon, 07 Aug 2023 10:51:54 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/script-to-uninstall-and-cleanup-vmware-fusion/https://veducate.co.uk/script-to-uninstall-and-cleanup-vmware-fusion/The VMware Fusion KB to remove the software makes reference to a number of areas you need to manually cleanup, so below a little script which closes the…Mon, 31 Jul 2023 12:30:58 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/kubernetes-metric-server-validate-certificate/https://veducate.co.uk/kubernetes-metric-server-validate-certificate/The Issue Whilst trying to install the Metric's server: kubectl apply -f https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/metrics-server/releases/latest/download/components.…Thu, 27 Jul 2023 17:09:32 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/kubectl-get-f-command-kubernetes-resource-retrieval/https://veducate.co.uk/kubectl-get-f-command-kubernetes-resource-retrieval/Did you know you can use the -f argument with kubectl get? Yep me either. It's pretty handy actually, as it will provide the status for all your Kubernetes…Wed, 14 Jun 2023 10:46:47 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/red-hat-openshift-sorry-your-reply-was-invalid-ip-expected-to-be-in-one-of-the-machine-networks/https://veducate.co.uk/red-hat-openshift-sorry-your-reply-was-invalid-ip-expected-to-be-in-one-of-the-machine-networks/The Issue When running the command: openshift-install create cluster And you provide an API IP address which is not in the CIDR range 10.0.0.0/16, you recieve…Thu, 30 Mar 2023 08:40:29 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/how-to-delete-kubernetes-namespaces-with-a-specific-pattern-or-name/https://veducate.co.uk/how-to-delete-kubernetes-namespaces-with-a-specific-pattern-or-name/I had a need to delete a number of Namespaces all at once that were created as part of some automated platform testing. Each namespace had a common naming…Thu, 16 Mar 2023 13:52:49 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/collect-vm-notes-vrealize-operations-guide/https://veducate.co.uk/collect-vm-notes-vrealize-operations-guide/One of the most common questions I've come across in previous years is how do I get the VM notes held in vCenter into vRealize (Aria) Operations? Great news…Wed, 01 Mar 2023 11:17:59 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/how-to-run-the-last-command-as-sudo-in-linux/https://veducate.co.uk/how-to-run-the-last-command-as-sudo-in-linux/A quick post as I always forget this command, learn how to run the last command again as sudo, to elevate and bypass permissions denied error. ## First command…Wed, 15 Feb 2023 11:28:49 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/how-to-add-vsphere-tags-to-vrealize-operations-alert-emails-using-a-custom-payload/https://veducate.co.uk/how-to-add-vsphere-tags-to-vrealize-operations-alert-emails-using-a-custom-payload/Wondering how to add the vSphere Tag for a virtual machine to emails sent out for alerts? I recently came across this Reddit post, so decided to try out the…Fri, 10 Feb 2023 18:22:14 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/aria-hub-aws/https://veducate.co.uk/aria-hub-aws/In this blog post, I am going to take you through how to get started with VMware Aria Hub, and connect your first public cloud account, in this example, AWS.…Thu, 19 Jan 2023 17:17:35 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/tkg-16-management-cluster-deployment-failure-unable-to-patch/https://veducate.co.uk/tkg-16-management-cluster-deployment-failure-unable-to-patch/The Issue When deploying a brand new Tanzu Kubernete Grid Management Cluster to a vSphere environment we kept hitting failures like the below. The deployment…Fri, 23 Dec 2022 16:15:39 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vrealize-operations-where-did-my-object-relationships-view-go/https://veducate.co.uk/vrealize-operations-where-did-my-object-relationships-view-go/The Issue From vRealize Operations 8.6.2, it's been noticed that the "Object Relationships" page has disappeared from the navigation column/settings pages in…Thu, 22 Dec 2022 12:42:44 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/dns-delegation-azure/https://veducate.co.uk/dns-delegation-azure/A quick post, following on from my other post which covers DNS Delegation from CloudFlare to AWS Route53. In this walkthrough, we are going to cover the same…Wed, 07 Sep 2022 13:52:49 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/tanzu-kubernetes-grid-cilium/https://veducate.co.uk/tanzu-kubernetes-grid-cilium/In this blog post I'm going to dive into how you can create a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid cluster and specify your own container network interface, for example…Mon, 05 Sep 2022 14:52:27 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vrslcm-saltstack-config-upgrade-fails-lcmupgradevssc10103/https://veducate.co.uk/vrslcm-saltstack-config-upgrade-fails-lcmupgradevssc10103/The Issue When upgrading to vRA SaltStack Config 8.9 using vRealize Suite LifeCycle Manager, I found I hit an issue stating that the upgrade failed as the VAMI…Fri, 02 Sep 2022 15:08:39 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/creating-a-kubeconfig-file-for-a-kubernetes-service-account/https://veducate.co.uk/creating-a-kubeconfig-file-for-a-kubernetes-service-account/Recently I was working with a software integration that required a Kubernetes Kubeconfig file. I didn't want to provide my own kubeconfig file, and I also…Thu, 01 Sep 2022 13:58:15 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/tanzu-observability-vrops-cloud/https://veducate.co.uk/tanzu-observability-vrops-cloud/In this blog post, I am going to cover the configuration and consumption of the Tanzu Observability integration with vRealize Operations Cloud. As this is blog…Wed, 31 Aug 2022 22:33:21 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/sending-vrealize-operations-alerts-to-elasticstack-elk/https://veducate.co.uk/sending-vrealize-operations-alerts-to-elasticstack-elk/This blog post is thanks to an internal query, that I thought should be easy enough to complete, however my usage of an ELK environment is limited, so it was a…Mon, 22 Aug 2022 13:43:33 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/deploying-a-windows-vm-using-vrealize-automation-configuring-with-saltstack-config-p2/https://veducate.co.uk/deploying-a-windows-vm-using-vrealize-automation-configuring-with-saltstack-config-p2/The first blog post of this two part series covered getting our vRealize Automation and SaltStack Config environments prepared, a Windows Server template…Fri, 12 Aug 2022 16:52:51 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/deploying-a-windows-vm-using-vrealize-automation-configuring-with-saltstack-config-p1/https://veducate.co.uk/deploying-a-windows-vm-using-vrealize-automation-configuring-with-saltstack-config-p1/In this two-part blog post series, I'm going to detail what I consider a basic customer use case when deploying new Windows Servers in their environment.…Fri, 12 Aug 2022 16:52:24 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/salt-win-repo-issues-debug/https://veducate.co.uk/salt-win-repo-issues-debug/The Issue I was hitting issues when trying to use the Salt Win-Repo to install software. Below is a copy of my state file. ensure_malwarebytes_installed…Fri, 05 Aug 2022 17:08:32 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vra-deploy-gke-cluster/https://veducate.co.uk/vra-deploy-gke-cluster/This walk-through will detail the technical configurations for using vRA Code Stream to deploy Google Kubernetes Clusters (GKE), register them as: Kubernetes…Tue, 26 Jul 2022 15:24:25 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/interview-daniel-bryant/https://veducate.co.uk/interview-daniel-bryant/I'm really excited to get this interview out of the door. I missed Daniel's session at KubeCon, "From Kubernetes to PaaS to … Err, What’s Next?". The room was…Thu, 21 Jul 2022 22:47:30 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vmc-managed-tanzu-kubernetes-tmc/https://veducate.co.uk/vmc-managed-tanzu-kubernetes-tmc/In my previous blog post, I detailed a full end to end guide in deploying and configurating the managed Tanzu Kubernetes Service offering as part of VMware…Tue, 05 Jul 2022 14:36:41 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/cloudhealth-vrops-integration/https://veducate.co.uk/cloudhealth-vrops-integration/In this blog post, we are going to synchronise our vRealize Operations costing information with CloudHealth, to provide the ability to have true multi-cloud…Fri, 01 Jul 2022 00:01:47 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/tkg-upgrade-management-workload-cluster/https://veducate.co.uk/tkg-upgrade-management-workload-cluster/In this blog post, I am going to walk through how to upgrade both your Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Management and Workload clusters. I'll cover the Tanzu CLI…Tue, 28 Jun 2022 17:27:47 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vrealize-automation-active-directory-integration-ldaps/https://veducate.co.uk/vrealize-automation-active-directory-integration-ldaps/In this blog post, I am going to cover the setup of the Active Directory integration with vRealize Automation using LDAPS. Cloud Assembly supports integration…Wed, 22 Jun 2022 08:43:11 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/tanzu-mission-control-upgrading-attached-tanzu-kubernetes-grid-clusters-fails-with-error/https://veducate.co.uk/tanzu-mission-control-upgrading-attached-tanzu-kubernetes-grid-clusters-fails-with-error/The Issue When trying to upgrade an attached Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Cluster via Tanzu Mission Control (TMC), that is either created by a Tanzu Management…Tue, 31 May 2022 09:19:14 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vrealize-operations-costing-deep-dive/https://veducate.co.uk/vrealize-operations-costing-deep-dive/In years gone by, costing of your technology platforms was covered in a product called vRealize Business for Cloud. Since the move to the 8.x code based, this…Mon, 16 May 2022 16:16:04 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/tanzu-kubernetes-grid-manual-certificate-renewal/https://veducate.co.uk/tanzu-kubernetes-grid-manual-certificate-renewal/The Issue Note: VMware has released a full in-depth KB Article that I'd advise you review along with this blog post. If you have any queries or concerns with…Wed, 11 May 2022 10:29:44 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vra-property-groups/https://veducate.co.uk/vra-property-groups/I had the pleasure of working with a customer who wanted to use property groups within vRealize Automation, to provide various configuration data to drive…Thu, 28 Apr 2022 23:37:07 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vmware-cloud-on-aws-managed-tanzu-kubernetes-grid/https://veducate.co.uk/vmware-cloud-on-aws-managed-tanzu-kubernetes-grid/In this blog post I'm going to deep dive into the end-to-end activation, deployment, and consuming of the managed Tanzu Services (Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service…Thu, 14 Apr 2022 14:47:03 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/openshift-install-apple-macbook-m1/https://veducate.co.uk/openshift-install-apple-macbook-m1/The Issue When running the OpenShift-Install CLI tool on my Apple MacBook M1 to create an OpenShift Cluster I kept hitting the same error: assertion failed …Wed, 13 Apr 2022 15:14:33 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/eks-kubectl-commands-fail/https://veducate.co.uk/eks-kubectl-commands-fail/The Issue After moving my life over to a new Macbook and installing the latest AWS CLI tools including "aws-iam-authenticator" tool, I couldn't run commands…Wed, 06 Apr 2022 11:35:09 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/tanzu-service-mesh-slo-autoscaling/https://veducate.co.uk/tanzu-service-mesh-slo-autoscaling/Continuing from the First Look blog post, where we created a distributed application between different public cloud Kubernetes deployments and connected them…Thu, 31 Mar 2022 22:59:28 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/gke-user-cannot-create-resource/https://veducate.co.uk/gke-user-cannot-create-resource/The Issue I stood up my first ever GKE cluster! Woo, go me! However when I was trying to setup Tanzu Service Mesh, I hit issues such as: Error from server…Thu, 31 Mar 2022 10:33:02 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/google-cloud-invitation-email/https://veducate.co.uk/google-cloud-invitation-email/The Issue For me, it started off with having some odd issues in a GKE cluster, where I didn't have permissions to do things at a cluster level. After some…Thu, 31 Mar 2022 10:22:09 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/openshift-ootb-vsphere-csi/https://veducate.co.uk/openshift-ootb-vsphere-csi/OpenShift Container Platform defaults to using an in-tree (non-CSI) plug-in to provision vSphere storage. What's New? In OpenShift 4.9, the out-of-the-box…Mon, 28 Mar 2022 06:37:44 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vrealize-operations-management-pack-builder/https://veducate.co.uk/vrealize-operations-management-pack-builder/What is the Management Pack Builder? Well, it's exactly as the name suggests, a tool for building your own vRealize Operations Management Pack, to bring data…Fri, 18 Mar 2022 16:02:01 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/tanzu-observability-openshift-vmc/https://veducate.co.uk/tanzu-observability-openshift-vmc/Recently, I was involved in some work to assist the VMware Tanzu Observability team to assist them in updating their deliverables for OpenShift. Now it's…Fri, 25 Feb 2022 16:23:45 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/dns-delegation-route53/https://veducate.co.uk/dns-delegation-route53/This blog post covers how to delegate DNS control from Cloudflare to AWS Route53. So that you can host records in Route53 for services deployed into AWS, that…Thu, 17 Feb 2022 00:01:19 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/deploy-tkgs-clusters-vra-cluster-plan/https://veducate.co.uk/deploy-tkgs-clusters-vra-cluster-plan/In this blog post I am covering the vRealize Automation native feature that allows you to deploy Tanzu clusters via the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service of…Wed, 09 Feb 2022 14:46:32 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/exploring-the-git-command-line/https://veducate.co.uk/exploring-the-git-command-line/What is Git? Git is distributed version control software. Version Control is the ability to save and track changes over time, without interfering with previous…Mon, 07 Feb 2022 09:25:30 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/tanzu-service-mesh-first-look/https://veducate.co.uk/tanzu-service-mesh-first-look/I've finally found the time to dive into Tanzu Service Mesh (TSM), a product which has intrigued me greatly. In this blog post I cover setting up TSM, and…Mon, 31 Jan 2022 16:51:19 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/aws-console-permission-eks-cluster/https://veducate.co.uk/aws-console-permission-eks-cluster/The Issue Once you've deployed an EKS cluster, and try to view this in the AWS Console, you are presenting the following message: Your current user or role…Tue, 25 Jan 2022 13:30:41 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/openshift-on-vmware/https://veducate.co.uk/openshift-on-vmware/I was honoured to be a guest on the "Ask an OpenShift Admin" webinar recently. Where I had the chance to talk about OpenShift on VMware, always a hot topic…Sun, 23 Jan 2022 17:20:55 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vra-cloud-template-execute-pipeline/https://veducate.co.uk/vra-cloud-template-execute-pipeline/Looking at the latest vRA Cloud Template Schema, I saw something interesting in the definitions. The ability to have a resource type of "codestream.execution".…Thu, 13 Jan 2022 22:22:50 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vsphere-kubernetes-operator-openshift/https://veducate.co.uk/vsphere-kubernetes-operator-openshift/What is the vSphere Kubernetes Driver Operator (VDO)? This Kubernetes Operator has been designed and created as part of the VMware and IBM Joint Innovation…Wed, 05 Jan 2022 10:36:03 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/delete-eks-fails-cannot-evict-pod/https://veducate.co.uk/delete-eks-fails-cannot-evict-pod/The Issue I had to remove a demo EKS Cluster where I had screwed up an install of a Service Mesh. Unfortunately, it was left in a rather terrible state to…Wed, 22 Dec 2021 11:38:05 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/how-to-create-helm-chart/https://veducate.co.uk/how-to-create-helm-chart/If you've have been following any of my blogs that relate to Kubernetes, I am sure that you will have seen the use of my demo application Pac-Man, designed to…Tue, 14 Dec 2021 19:53:28 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/deploying-gpu-enabled-tanzu-kubernetes-clusters/https://veducate.co.uk/deploying-gpu-enabled-tanzu-kubernetes-clusters/In this blog post I'm going to detail how deploy and configure a Nvidia GPU enabled Tanzu Kubernetes Grid cluster in AWS. The method will be similar for Azure…Thu, 09 Dec 2021 23:01:04 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vmc-vcenter-email-alerts-vrlic/https://veducate.co.uk/vmc-vcenter-email-alerts-vrlic/The Issue When configuring a VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC) SDDC vCenter, Administrators trying to use the vCenter Alerts email feature find they cannot complete…Thu, 09 Dec 2021 11:48:23 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vrops-kubernetes-prometheus-telegraf/https://veducate.co.uk/vrops-kubernetes-prometheus-telegraf/In this post, I will cover how to deploy Prometheus and the Telegraf exporter and configure so that the data can be collected by vRealize Operations. Overview…Tue, 16 Nov 2021 09:04:58 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/upgrading-vsphere-csi-driver/https://veducate.co.uk/upgrading-vsphere-csi-driver/In this post I'm just documenting the steps on how to upgrade the vSphere CSI Driver, especially if you must make a jump in versioning to the latest version.…Mon, 15 Nov 2021 21:54:10 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/tanzu-build-services-rebuilding-pac-man/https://veducate.co.uk/tanzu-build-services-rebuilding-pac-man/This blog post will detail how to setup Tanzu Build Services in a test environment, and then create a container image from a dockerfile, fixing several…Thu, 11 Nov 2021 00:44:56 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vrealize-log-insight-reset-unlock-admin-password/https://veducate.co.uk/vrealize-log-insight-reset-unlock-admin-password/The Issue Yep, I forgot my password. So I followed the official documentation to reset my local admin password. SSH to your vRLI appliance (primary node if…Tue, 09 Nov 2021 14:55:54 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/tkg-kubectl-scale-vertically/https://veducate.co.uk/tkg-kubectl-scale-vertically/In this blog post I am going to walk you through how to edit the Machine Resource configurations for nodes deployed by Tanzu Kubernetes Grid. Example Issue …Mon, 08 Nov 2021 14:55:46 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/quick-tip-kubernetes-delete-all-evicted-pods-across-all-namespaces/https://veducate.co.uk/quick-tip-kubernetes-delete-all-evicted-pods-across-all-namespaces/I'm currently troubleshooting an issue with my Kubernetes clusters where pods keep getting evicted, and this is happening across namespaces as well. The issue…Mon, 08 Nov 2021 11:15:57 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vsphere-tanzu-disable-drs/https://veducate.co.uk/vsphere-tanzu-disable-drs/Can I disable DRS? No. Why can't I disable DRS when Workload Management is enabled? DRS is a mandatory feature for workload management, the WCP service relies…Thu, 28 Oct 2021 21:02:45 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vrlic-archive-log-insight-data/https://veducate.co.uk/vrlic-archive-log-insight-data/vRealize Log Insight 8.6 brings the ability to build a hybrid log management platform, utilizing the functionality of an on-premises deployment of vRLI and…Thu, 28 Oct 2021 16:32:59 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/kasten-air-gap/https://veducate.co.uk/kasten-air-gap/In this blog post, I will cover the steps for an air-gap installation for Kasten K10. For situations where your Kubernetes cluster doesn't have available…Tue, 26 Oct 2021 19:03:14 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vra-vro-dynamic-types-custom-resources/https://veducate.co.uk/vra-vro-dynamic-types-custom-resources/This follow on blog post, diving into how we created the vRA integration with DMS comes from Katherine Skilling, who kindly offered to guest spot and provide…Mon, 11 Oct 2021 17:21:35 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/kubelet-unable-attach-volumes/https://veducate.co.uk/kubelet-unable-attach-volumes/The Issue When I updated my Kasten application in my Kubernetes cluster, I found that one of the pods was stuck in "init" status. dean@dean [ ~ ] (⎈…Thu, 30 Sep 2021 11:40:00 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vsphere-with-tanzu-storage-class-not-valid/https://veducate.co.uk/vsphere-with-tanzu-storage-class-not-valid/The Issue When you have attached a vSphere Storage Policy to your vSphere Namespace, and tried to create a cluster using the Storage Policy Name, you find it…Wed, 15 Sep 2021 10:29:51 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/dms-tanzu-vra/https://veducate.co.uk/dms-tanzu-vra/In this blog post, we will cover the technical configuration to import the packages that myself and Katherine Skilling (Twitter, LinkedIn, Blog) have created.…Tue, 14 Sep 2021 13:28:14 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vra-code-stream-unexpected-character/https://veducate.co.uk/vra-code-stream-unexpected-character/The Issue When running certain REST Tasks in Code Stream, the pipeline execution fails on this task with: Unexpected character ('\\' (code 92)): was expecting…Thu, 02 Sep 2021 11:39:12 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/mongodb-data-loss/https://veducate.co.uk/mongodb-data-loss/Over the past month or so I noticed an issue with my Pac-Man Kubernetes application, which I use for demonstrations as a basic app front-end that writes to a…Mon, 30 Aug 2021 09:39:10 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vrealize-operations-creating-interactions-between-separate-dashboards/https://veducate.co.uk/vrealize-operations-creating-interactions-between-separate-dashboards/Whilst reading some of the older vRealize Operations documentation, I stumbled on something I didn't think was possible. The ability to create interactions…Fri, 27 Aug 2021 13:09:28 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/dms-api/https://veducate.co.uk/dms-api/Whilst working with the "Data Management for VMware Tanzu" product, I decided to have a stab at working with the API as well. Using my favourite API tool…Thu, 12 Aug 2021 21:51:26 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/dms-self-service/https://veducate.co.uk/dms-self-service/In my first blog post, I covered the prerequisites and how to deploy the components for the Data Management for VMware Tanzu platform. In this blog post we…Wed, 11 Aug 2021 22:05:08 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/dms-tanzu-getting-started/https://veducate.co.uk/dms-tanzu-getting-started/This blog post will cover deploying the infrastructure and components for Data Management for VMware Tanzu. My second blog post will cover using this…Wed, 11 Aug 2021 22:04:45 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/kasten-multi-cluster/https://veducate.co.uk/kasten-multi-cluster/In this blog post I'm going to cover setting up the Multi-cluster support for Kasten when you've installed the software to multiple Kubernetes clusters. One…Fri, 06 Aug 2021 14:40:41 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/terraform-vsphere-vapp-properties/https://veducate.co.uk/terraform-vsphere-vapp-properties/The Issue When using Terraform to deploy a virtual machine OVA using Terraform, I kept hitting the below error: Error: error while creating vapp properties…Fri, 30 Jul 2021 21:58:54 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vrops-adapter-logs/https://veducate.co.uk/vrops-adapter-logs/The Issue I had installed the "VMware vRealize Operations Management Pack for Horizon 1.2" into my vROPs instance, and tried to connect my Horizon instance…Fri, 30 Jul 2021 17:21:48 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vmc-non-compliant-storage-policies/https://veducate.co.uk/vmc-non-compliant-storage-policies/The Issue Overnight I received an email from the VMware Cloud Services platform regarding a VMC environment I am an administrator of. The opening paragraph was…Tue, 27 Jul 2021 09:30:49 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/terraform-escape-strings-with-a-dollar-sign/https://veducate.co.uk/terraform-escape-strings-with-a-dollar-sign/The Issue When using Terraform to perform an action, and the input is using a $, you can end up with an output such as the below. │ Error: Invalid character │…Wed, 14 Jul 2021 14:33:47 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/authenticate-docker-harbor-robot/https://veducate.co.uk/authenticate-docker-harbor-robot/Just a quick blog post on how to authenticate Docker to a Harbor Image Registry, using a Robot Account, which is good for programmatically access to push/pull…Tue, 13 Jul 2021 22:47:11 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/tanzu-mission-control-custom-policy-kasten/https://veducate.co.uk/tanzu-mission-control-custom-policy-kasten/The Issue A while ago I was chatting to Michael Cade, and we pondered the question "How do we ensure Kasten is protecting a newly deployed application in our…Mon, 12 Jul 2021 17:51:19 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/deploying-openshift-clusters-ipi-using-vra-code-stream/https://veducate.co.uk/deploying-openshift-clusters-ipi-using-vra-code-stream/This walk-through will detail the technical configurations for using vRA Code Stream to deploy Red Hat OpenShift Clusters, register them as Kubernetes…Wed, 30 Jun 2021 20:55:20 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vra-code-stream-json-malformed/https://veducate.co.uk/vra-code-stream-json-malformed/The Issue Whilst working with a vRA Code Stream CI Task, I needed to build a YAML file in my container, which I would use to provide the values to my CLI Tool…Wed, 30 Jun 2021 16:43:08 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/postman-tmc-api/https://veducate.co.uk/postman-tmc-api/Whilst working with vRA to deploy various Kubernetes clusters and then register them with Tanzu Mission Control (TMC), I decided to use Postman (a great API…Fri, 25 Jun 2021 08:58:36 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vmug-data-protection-tanzu/https://veducate.co.uk/vmug-data-protection-tanzu/As part of my virtual VMUG tour, I submitted a session to the VMUG call for papers covering the subject of Data Protection for Tanzu Kubernetes workloads.…Thu, 24 Jun 2021 14:27:01 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/kubernetes-101-recording/https://veducate.co.uk/kubernetes-101-recording/I had the pleasure of presenting this Kubernetes 101 session to the Veeam Community thanks to my work as part of their Veeam Vanguards program, and a special…Fri, 18 Jun 2021 16:52:40 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/tmc-tkg-management-provisioning/https://veducate.co.uk/tmc-tkg-management-provisioning/In this blog post, I am going to cover the new support for Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Management clusters on both VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC) and Azure VMware…Tue, 01 Jun 2021 11:19:41 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vra-deploy-tanzu-clusters/https://veducate.co.uk/vra-deploy-tanzu-clusters/This walk through will detail the technical configurations for using vRA Code Stream to deploy vSphere with Tanzu supervisor namespaces and guest clusters.…Thu, 20 May 2021 20:20:14 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vsphere-tanzu-cidrblock-intersect/https://veducate.co.uk/vsphere-tanzu-cidrblock-intersect/The Issue When deploying a vSphere with Tanzu guest cluster via the command line, I hit the following error: kubectl apply -f cluster.yaml Error from server…Thu, 20 May 2021 14:34:16 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/tanzu-aws-fails/https://veducate.co.uk/tanzu-aws-fails/The issue When deploying Tanzu Kubernetes Grid to AWS, the deployment was failing with the following output: unable to set up management cluster, : unable to…Tue, 18 May 2021 10:33:34 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vra-deploy-aks-tmc/https://veducate.co.uk/vra-deploy-aks-tmc/Deploy Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters with vRealize Automation Code Stream, register them as endpoints, and attach them to Tanzu Mission Control.Mon, 17 May 2021 15:40:05 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vra-code-stream-preserve-artifacts/https://veducate.co.uk/vra-code-stream-preserve-artifacts/Whilst creating a pipeline and using CI Tasks to run some CLI tools, I needed to save the outputted files from the container used for the CI Task so I could…Thu, 13 May 2021 15:36:51 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vra-deploy-eks-tmc/https://veducate.co.uk/vra-deploy-eks-tmc/This walk-through will detail the technical configurations for using vRA Code Stream to deploy AWS EKS Clusters, register them as Kubernetes endpoints in vRA…Mon, 10 May 2021 22:39:52 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/postman-lost-offline-work/https://veducate.co.uk/postman-lost-offline-work/The Issue When working with Postman in an offline mode or not signed in, then choosing to sign in, you lose access to your Collections and Environments you…Mon, 10 May 2021 19:04:25 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/github-verified-code/https://veducate.co.uk/github-verified-code/The Issue Recently I've started to use Visual Code as my editor on Mac OS X, and using it with my GitHub Repos. It's pretty cool! However I noticed that when I…Wed, 05 May 2021 14:05:07 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vmware-cmty-tanzu-vrops/https://veducate.co.uk/vmware-cmty-tanzu-vrops/Thanks to this blog post, I was delighted to be invited as a guest on the VMware CMTY Podcast (YouTube Page) hosted by Eric Nielsen and Matt Langguth.…Fri, 30 Apr 2021 08:49:36 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/ubuntu-apt-update-fails/https://veducate.co.uk/ubuntu-apt-update-fails/The Issue Running sudo apt-get update or sudo apt update fails with the following or similar errors: Hit:1 http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt eoan-pgdg…Thu, 29 Apr 2021 10:50:55 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/tanzu-terminology/https://veducate.co.uk/tanzu-terminology/It's not uncommon for me to see the question asking for an explanation of VMware Tanzu Kubernetes terminology and differences between similar named products.…Thu, 22 Apr 2021 13:29:56 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/tanzu-mission-control-upgrade-cluster/https://veducate.co.uk/tanzu-mission-control-upgrade-cluster/Now we understand how to deploy a Tanzu Kubernetes Cluster using Tanzu Mission Control, let's look at the next lifecycle step, how to upgrade the Kubernetes…Wed, 14 Apr 2021 22:54:39 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/tanzu-mission-control-delete-provisioned-cluster/https://veducate.co.uk/tanzu-mission-control-delete-provisioned-cluster/In this blog post we are going to cover off how to delete a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid cluster that has been provisioned by Tanzu Mission Control. We will cover the…Wed, 14 Apr 2021 22:30:43 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/tmc-deploy-tkg-aws/https://veducate.co.uk/tmc-deploy-tkg-aws/This blog post will cover a technical walk-through on using Tanzu Mission Control to deploy Tanzu Kubernetes clusters to AWS. The follow up blog posts in this…Tue, 13 Apr 2021 21:56:47 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/download-releases-from-github-using-curl-and-wget/https://veducate.co.uk/download-releases-from-github-using-curl-and-wget/The issue I was trying to download a software release from GitHub using Curl and hitting an issue, the file wasn't large enough for a start, it was unusable…Mon, 12 Apr 2021 18:47:12 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/docker-update-container/https://veducate.co.uk/docker-update-container/I was helping a customer build some customized automation tasks using vRealize Automation Codestream. These tasks required the use of a container image with…Mon, 12 Apr 2021 11:20:43 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/kubestr/https://veducate.co.uk/kubestr/Kubernetes is a platform which is starting to lose the need for introduction in most settings. However, it still can be a complex beast to get to grips with…Wed, 07 Apr 2021 21:20:08 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vrops-tanzu-mission-control/https://veducate.co.uk/vrops-tanzu-mission-control/A while ago I wrote about the vRealize Operations Kubernetes Management pack which works for all CNCF conformant Kubernetes platforms. One of the best features…Wed, 31 Mar 2021 22:45:12 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/tkg-workload-cluster-azure/https://veducate.co.uk/tkg-workload-cluster-azure/Following on from my previous blog post; Deploying Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Management Cluster to Microsoft Azure We will now continue and deploy our first…Mon, 29 Mar 2021 10:32:54 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/tkg-management-cluster-azure/https://veducate.co.uk/tkg-management-cluster-azure/In this blog post, we will detail a full technical run through on how to deploy Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) into Microsoft Azure, This will be using the new…Mon, 29 Mar 2021 10:29:25 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vmug-recording-protecting-your-tanzu-kubernetes-workload-with-kasten-by-veeam/https://veducate.co.uk/vmug-recording-protecting-your-tanzu-kubernetes-workload-with-kasten-by-veeam/Below is the recording from my London VMUG session with Michael Cade. Title: Protecting your Tanzu Kubernetes Workload with Kasten by Veeam Recorded: 4th…Wed, 17 Mar 2021 15:52:47 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/sddc-manager-delete-bundles/https://veducate.co.uk/sddc-manager-delete-bundles/Just a quick blog post on deleting unnecessary or unneeded bundles from VCF - SDDC Manager. There is two parts to this. Getting your Bundle ID you want to…Mon, 08 Mar 2021 12:45:11 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/kasten-backup-restore/https://veducate.co.uk/kasten-backup-restore/This blog posts covers using Kasten by Veeam to create backup policies for data protection, and how to restore your data. This blog post follows on from the…Tue, 02 Mar 2021 18:52:24 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/kasten-tanzu/https://veducate.co.uk/kasten-tanzu/This blog post will take you through the full steps on installing and configuring Kasten, the container based enterprise backup software now owned by Veeam…Tue, 02 Mar 2021 18:52:19 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/kasten-install-configure-openshift/https://veducate.co.uk/kasten-install-configure-openshift/In this blog post I'm going to cover deploying and configuring Kasten, the container based enterprise backup software now owned by Veeam Software. This…Tue, 02 Mar 2021 18:51:55 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vrops-powered-off-vms/https://veducate.co.uk/vrops-powered-off-vms/Just a quick answer from a query on Reddit /r/VMware Sub. You can do this in vROPs from the 8.x code and above. Click home on the vROPs interface Click on…Tue, 02 Mar 2021 10:19:50 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/how-to-update-kasten-to-the-latest-version/https://veducate.co.uk/how-to-update-kasten-to-the-latest-version/This is probably one of the simplest blog posts I'll publish. To see if there is an available update for your Kasten install. In the dashboard click > Settings…Mon, 01 Mar 2021 17:54:10 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/how-to-build-a-vrops-dashboard-for-tracking-total-vms-deployed-and-growth-trend/https://veducate.co.uk/how-to-build-a-vrops-dashboard-for-tracking-total-vms-deployed-and-growth-trend/In this Blog post I am going to detail how I created a vROPs dashboard based on a customer's request. Can we track how many VMs have been created in the past…Wed, 24 Feb 2021 14:53:28 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vmware-tanzu-mission-control-data-protection/https://veducate.co.uk/vmware-tanzu-mission-control-data-protection/In this blog post we will cover the following topics - Data Protection Overview - Create a AWS Data Protection Credential - Enable Data Protection on a Cluster…Fri, 19 Feb 2021 16:29:04 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/enabling-tmc-data-protection-openshift/https://veducate.co.uk/enabling-tmc-data-protection-openshift/Just a quick blog on how to get the Data Protection feature of Tanzu Mission Control on Red Hat OpenShift. By default you will find that once the data…Thu, 18 Feb 2021 22:39:49 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/google-analytics-view-referral-page/https://veducate.co.uk/google-analytics-view-referral-page/Just a quick one as this was really annoying me and I have to click around to remember how to find the info each time. The Issue When viewing my page stats in…Thu, 18 Feb 2021 22:34:51 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/openshift-forward-logs-log-insight-cloud/https://veducate.co.uk/openshift-forward-logs-log-insight-cloud/In this blog post we will cover how to configure Red Hat OpenShift to forward logs from the ClusterLogging instance to an external 3rd party system, in this…Fri, 15 Jan 2021 17:09:40 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/openshift-cluster-monitor-operator/https://veducate.co.uk/openshift-cluster-monitor-operator/The issue After building a brand new OpenShift 4.6.9 cluster, I noticed one of the pods was not running correctly oc get pods -n openshift-monitoring .....…Wed, 13 Jan 2021 13:57:32 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vra-operate-multi-cloud/https://veducate.co.uk/vra-operate-multi-cloud/Myself and Katherine Skilling (LinkedIn, Twitter) recorded a session for TAM Lab and VMUG Events. In the below session, we cover how to use vRealize Automation…Wed, 25 Nov 2020 22:37:29 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/folding-at-home-vmware-terraform/https://veducate.co.uk/folding-at-home-vmware-terraform/To simplify the deployment of Folding@Home appliances to vSphere environments, I have wrote a set of Terraform configuration files (script). You will need two…Mon, 23 Nov 2020 17:46:38 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/how-to-delete-vcenter-roles-in-vmc/https://veducate.co.uk/how-to-delete-vcenter-roles-in-vmc/The Issue Whilst testing in VMC a PowerCLI script to create some vCenter roles, I noticed in the UI, then I deleted them, they remained, even though I was…Thu, 19 Nov 2020 18:10:35 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/interview-nikola-pejkova-veeam/https://veducate.co.uk/interview-nikola-pejkova-veeam/For those of you who know or follow me, I'm delighted to be part of the Veeam Vanguard program, created to bring together some of the top individuals focused…Thu, 19 Nov 2020 10:00:01 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/deploying-vmware-appliance-folding-at-home/https://veducate.co.uk/deploying-vmware-appliance-folding-at-home/In this blog post we will go through the steps to deploy the VMware Appliance for Folding@Home to; vCenter Standalone ESXi host VMware Fusion/Workstation And…Thu, 19 Nov 2020 01:06:14 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/deploy-vsphere-openshift-machine-resources/https://veducate.co.uk/deploy-vsphere-openshift-machine-resources/When deploying Red Hat OpenShift to VMware vSphere platform, there are two methods: User Provisioned Infrastructure (UPI) Installer Provisioned Infrastructure…Wed, 18 Nov 2020 16:49:59 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/notepad-plus-plus-add-characters/https://veducate.co.uk/notepad-plus-plus-add-characters/Are you tired of searching for ways to add characters to the start and end of lines in Notepad++? Look no further! I decided to write this blog post for it! To…Mon, 09 Nov 2020 09:19:00 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/openshift-vsphere-scale-clusters/https://veducate.co.uk/openshift-vsphere-scale-clusters/Working with Red Hat OpenShift on vSphere, I'm really starting to understand the main infrastructure components and how everything fits together. Next up was…Tue, 03 Nov 2020 21:56:04 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vsphere-tanzu-kubernetes-day-2-operations/https://veducate.co.uk/vsphere-tanzu-kubernetes-day-2-operations/Intro This blog post is an accompaniment to the session "vSphere with Tanzu Kubernetes - Day 2 Operations for the VI Admin" created by myself and Simon…Fri, 30 Oct 2020 12:00:38 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vrealize-operations-guest-page-in-rate-metric/https://veducate.co.uk/vrealize-operations-guest-page-in-rate-metric/In vRealize Operations 6.3, we added the following Guest Metrics, some of which we require VMware Tools 10.3.X or higher to be present for us to pull the data.…Mon, 26 Oct 2020 13:46:28 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vrops-dashboard-vm-growth/https://veducate.co.uk/vrops-dashboard-vm-growth/I came across an interesting query on Reddit regarding vRealize Operations Manager (vROPs), summarised the query; "Can I have a vROPs report/dashboard which…Sun, 25 Oct 2020 17:26:49 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/fahcontrol-manage-multiple/https://veducate.co.uk/fahcontrol-manage-multiple/This blog post will cover managing a number of Folding@Home Clients using FAHControl. If you are using the VMware F@H Fling, then this appliance will be…Sat, 19 Sep 2020 14:02:45 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/avi-networks-generate-certificates/https://veducate.co.uk/avi-networks-generate-certificates/Note: AVI Networks is also referenced as NSX Advanced Load Balancer as the product is absorbed into the VMware Solutions The AVI Vantage controller has the…Sat, 19 Sep 2020 13:55:19 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vcenter-patching-failed-update-build-number/https://veducate.co.uk/vcenter-patching-failed-update-build-number/The issue After patching/upgrading your vCenter 6.7 appliance, the vCenter UI shows the latest build number, but in VAMI you see the older VAMI build number.…Sat, 19 Sep 2020 13:12:47 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/kubernetes-pvc-terminating/https://veducate.co.uk/kubernetes-pvc-terminating/Having trouble deleting a persistent volume claim (PVC) stuck in "terminating" status in Kubernetes/Openshift? We've got the fix. Read on to learn how to patch…Sat, 19 Sep 2020 11:23:25 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/deans-top-10-session-picks-for-vmworld-2020/https://veducate.co.uk/deans-top-10-session-picks-for-vmworld-2020/I thought I'd add to the deluge of posts of recommended VMworld Sessions. Here are my top ten picks! Remember VMworld is fully virtual and free this year. So…Sat, 19 Sep 2020 11:07:58 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vsphere-csi-driver-openshift-vsan-file-services/https://veducate.co.uk/vsphere-csi-driver-openshift-vsan-file-services/You may have seen my blog post "How to Install and configure vSphere CSI Driver on OpenShift 4.x". Here I updated the vSphere CSI driver to work the additional…Thu, 17 Sep 2020 22:03:18 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/how-to-backup-vrealize-automation-8-x-using-veeam/https://veducate.co.uk/how-to-backup-vrealize-automation-8-x-using-veeam/In this blog post I am going to dissect backing up vRealize Automation 8.x using Veeam Backup and Replication. - Understanding the backup methods - Performing…Thu, 10 Sep 2020 13:05:57 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/veeam-script-unexpected-exit-code-126/https://veducate.co.uk/veeam-script-unexpected-exit-code-126/This Issue When using Veeam if you use Pre/Post freeze scripts for application aware processing, these scripts must reside on the VBR server, which uploads to…Fri, 28 Aug 2020 10:56:16 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/how-to-install-vsphere-csi-driver-openshift/https://veducate.co.uk/how-to-install-vsphere-csi-driver-openshift/Note2: December 2021 VMware released the Red Hat Certified Operator "vSphere Kubernetes Driver Operator", which is now the preferred and recommended way to…Mon, 27 Jul 2020 11:34:38 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/how-to-deploy-openshift-on-vmware/https://veducate.co.uk/how-to-deploy-openshift-on-vmware/Install OpenShift 4.x on vSphere 6.x/7.x The following procedure is intended to create VM's from an OVA template booting with static IP's when the DHCP server…Wed, 22 Jul 2020 15:28:26 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/veeam-backup-for-azure-integrating-with-veeam-backup-and-replication/https://veducate.co.uk/veeam-backup-for-azure-integrating-with-veeam-backup-and-replication/In this blog post we will cover the following topics; - Adding your Azure Repository to Veeam Backup and Replication - Viewing your protected data - What can…Mon, 29 Jun 2020 13:37:15 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/veeam-backup-for-azure-configuring-your-first-backup-policy/https://veducate.co.uk/veeam-backup-for-azure-configuring-your-first-backup-policy/In this blog post we will cover the following topics - How a backup policy works - Creating a Backup Policy - Viewing and Running a Backup Policy - - Looking…Mon, 29 Jun 2020 13:31:22 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/veeam-backup-for-microsoft-azure-restoring-a-backup/https://veducate.co.uk/veeam-backup-for-microsoft-azure-restoring-a-backup/In this blog post we will cover the following topics - Restoring a Backup - - Viewing protected data - - File Level Recovery - - - File Level Recovery Session…Mon, 29 Jun 2020 13:30:53 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/veeam-backup-for-microsoft-azure-setting-up-infrastructure/https://veducate.co.uk/veeam-backup-for-microsoft-azure-setting-up-infrastructure/In this blog post we will cover the following topics; - What is Veeam Backup for Azure - Getting Started - - Architecture - - Deploying from Azure Marketplace…Mon, 29 Jun 2020 13:29:52 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/veeam-backup-for-azure-service-endpoint-from-virtual-network-to-microsoft-storage-doesnt-exist/https://veducate.co.uk/veeam-backup-for-azure-service-endpoint-from-virtual-network-to-microsoft-storage-doesnt-exist/The Issue After deploying a new Veeam Backup for Azure setup via the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, I was going through the configuration and when deploying my…Mon, 22 Jun 2020 13:27:10 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/kubernetes-command-line-tips-and-tricks/https://veducate.co.uk/kubernetes-command-line-tips-and-tricks/In this blog post, I have collected together a number of tips, tricks and snippets I've learned along the away whilst learning Kubernetes. - Configure tab…Mon, 22 Jun 2020 11:11:12 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vmware-tanzu-mission-control-getting-started/https://veducate.co.uk/vmware-tanzu-mission-control-getting-started/In this blog post we will cover the following topics - What is Tanzu Mission Control? - So, this isn't just for VMware environments? - Getting Started Tanzu…Tue, 26 May 2020 08:59:44 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vmware-tanzu-mission-control-workspaces-and-policies/https://veducate.co.uk/vmware-tanzu-mission-control-workspaces-and-policies/In this blog post we will cover the following topics - Tanzu Mission Control - - Workspaces - - - Creating a workspace - - - Creating a managed Namespace - - …Tue, 26 May 2020 08:57:30 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vmware-tanzu-mission-control-cluster-inspections/https://veducate.co.uk/vmware-tanzu-mission-control-cluster-inspections/In this blog post we will cover the following topics - Tanzu Mission Control - - Cluster Inspections Overview - - What Inspections are available - - Performing…Tue, 26 May 2020 08:57:22 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vrealize-operations-monitoring-openshift-container-platform-environments/https://veducate.co.uk/vrealize-operations-monitoring-openshift-container-platform-environments/The latest release of vRealize Operations (the "manager" part of the product name has now been dropped), brings the ability to manage your Kubernetes…Sun, 24 May 2020 16:00:29 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/powercli-import-vapp-name-or-service-not-known/https://veducate.co.uk/powercli-import-vapp-name-or-service-not-known/I kept running into the error whilst running PowerCLI on Ubuntu. After wracking my brains, I realised that the issue is DNS, my Ubuntu box couldn't resolve the…Sat, 23 May 2020 08:25:15 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vcenter-7-0-image-based-backup-is-still-supported-but-wont-be-in-future-versions/https://veducate.co.uk/vcenter-7-0-image-based-backup-is-still-supported-but-wont-be-in-future-versions/When vSphere 7.0 (and therefore vCenter 7.0) went GA, a number of customers were hit with a very important change; vCenter support for image based backups was…Sun, 10 May 2020 18:31:07 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/veeam-backup-for-azure-unable-to-check-required-permissions/https://veducate.co.uk/veeam-backup-for-azure-unable-to-check-required-permissions/The Issue When connecting my newly deployed instance of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure, I keep hitting the same error message after authenticating my account…Sat, 09 May 2020 14:48:28 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vrops-dashboard-display-port-group-with-vlan-id-and-map-to-virtual-machines/https://veducate.co.uk/vrops-dashboard-display-port-group-with-vlan-id-and-map-to-virtual-machines/My customer asked me how to display the VLAN ID for a virtual machine in vROPs. The short answer is, due to the VLAN ID only being available from the…Fri, 08 May 2020 14:59:51 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/london-vmug-recording-horizon-on-vmc/https://veducate.co.uk/london-vmug-recording-horizon-on-vmc/I presented on the first ever virtual London VMUG event of which you can see the recording below, and it is accompanied by this blog post; Horizon on VMC…Mon, 04 May 2020 10:14:39 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/creating-a-redirection-on-your-wordpress-domain/https://veducate.co.uk/creating-a-redirection-on-your-wordpress-domain/The other day I was chatting to a friend, and we discussed they should setup a redirection on their WordPress site to take you to their youtube page. Something…Sun, 03 May 2020 14:26:44 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/joining-vmware-and-the-foldinghome-project-faq/https://veducate.co.uk/joining-vmware-and-the-foldinghome-project-faq/Since my first post about joining the VMware Team in the Folding@home (F@H) project, a lot has happened, we have created an easily to deploy and use OVA via…Sat, 04 Apr 2020 20:01:26 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/using-fahcontrol-to-monitor-multiple-foldinghome-clients/https://veducate.co.uk/using-fahcontrol-to-monitor-multiple-foldinghome-clients/This blog post will cover how to centrally manage multiple Folding@Home clients. Installing FAHControl Monitor Multiple instances of VMware Appliance for…Sat, 04 Apr 2020 19:49:05 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/migrating-user-and-password-objects-between-active-directory-forests/https://veducate.co.uk/migrating-user-and-password-objects-between-active-directory-forests/As part of some internal lab work, I had to move the user objects with their passwords to a new forest. It was key to migrate the passwords to ensure that…Fri, 27 Mar 2020 09:55:23 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/powershell-snippet-text-to-secure-string-and-output-to-xml-file/https://veducate.co.uk/powershell-snippet-text-to-secure-string-and-output-to-xml-file/Below is a quick Powershell command I use to convert passwords to secure strings and output to an XML file, I can encrypt that XML file locally on the machine…Thu, 19 Mar 2020 13:23:41 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vrslcm-vra-fails-to-update-from-8-0-to-8-0-1-lcmvravaconfig90030/https://veducate.co.uk/vrslcm-vra-fails-to-update-from-8-0-to-8-0-1-lcmvravaconfig90030/When updating my vRealize Automation instance from 8.0 to 8.0.1, I ran into an issue; LCMVRAVACONFIG90030 Error Code: LCMVRAVACONFIG90030 vRA VA Upgrade Status…Wed, 18 Mar 2020 19:57:31 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/windows-server-2019-evaluation-activation-fails/https://veducate.co.uk/windows-server-2019-evaluation-activation-fails/I had issues converting one of my evaluation installations of Windows Server 2019 to a fully licensed copy. I'd extended the evaluation a few times using…Wed, 18 Mar 2020 15:33:34 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/kubernetes-basics-kubeadm-token-create-print-join-command/https://veducate.co.uk/kubernetes-basics-kubeadm-token-create-print-join-command/Recently I've been using the fantastic resources to start learning Kubernetes (it's the next big thing don't you know). The course I've been following…Tue, 17 Mar 2020 13:59:09 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/horizon-on-vmc-considerations/https://veducate.co.uk/horizon-on-vmc-considerations/A few months back, I setup a Horizon Environment running in our VMC environment used for lab purposes. Since then, I've been asked by several people to go…Mon, 16 Mar 2020 14:30:36 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/introducing-the-vmware-uki-tam-spotify-playlist/https://veducate.co.uk/introducing-the-vmware-uki-tam-spotify-playlist/As we find ourselves on reduced or zero travel thanks to the outbreak of COVID-19, we also find ourselves with reduced human interaction. Sometimes that can be…Mon, 16 Mar 2020 12:39:13 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/foldinghome-project-in-the-fight-against-covid-19/https://veducate.co.uk/foldinghome-project-in-the-fight-against-covid-19/I won't give a long written speech about the crisis we all face today. However I do encourage you to spend your spare CPU cycles from your devices, whether…Mon, 16 Mar 2020 00:48:59 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/link-o-rama-vmware-announcements-march-2020/https://veducate.co.uk/link-o-rama-vmware-announcements-march-2020/Today VMware ran their announcement event “App Modernization in a multi-cloud world” event, which leads with their vSphere 7 flagship product and the native…Tue, 10 Mar 2020 13:35:52 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/introducing-vmware-tam-lab-youtube-channel/https://veducate.co.uk/introducing-vmware-tam-lab-youtube-channel/The VMware Technical Account Management team have been producing some internal videos for a while now, to show off what we see in the field or tackle common…Tue, 25 Feb 2020 22:34:33 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/building-a-veeam-lab-testing-scenarios/https://veducate.co.uk/building-a-veeam-lab-testing-scenarios/In my previous post, I looked at the architecture you may want to implement to test the various features of Veeam Backup and Replication, including features…Thu, 06 Feb 2020 14:35:17 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/building-a-veeam-lab-architecture/https://veducate.co.uk/building-a-veeam-lab-architecture/This blog posts spawns from an interesting discussion between the Veeam Vanguard members on what components are needed to build an effective lab for testing…Mon, 03 Feb 2020 15:47:47 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/veeam-vmce-2020-beta-course-and-exam/https://veducate.co.uk/veeam-vmce-2020-beta-course-and-exam/The last week of January for me, was spent taking some annual leave, and attending a special invite only edition of the Veeam VMCE 2020 course, at their…Sat, 01 Feb 2020 15:53:51 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vrslcm-replacing-vra-key-fails/https://veducate.co.uk/vrslcm-replacing-vra-key-fails/The vRA evaluation license in my homelab had failed, and trying to log in, I was hitting a 402 error. When replacing the license using vRealize LifeCycle…Wed, 29 Jan 2020 06:13:45 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vrlcm-new-licence-exception-dlf/https://veducate.co.uk/vrlcm-new-licence-exception-dlf/Adding a new license into vRLCM locker fails with; Exception while loading DLF. Check /var/log/vlcm for more detail Sorry I didn't take a screenshot of this in…Tue, 28 Jan 2020 12:59:23 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/nested-vcf-lab-error-while-creating-nfs-datastore/https://veducate.co.uk/nested-vcf-lab-error-while-creating-nfs-datastore/Whilst deploying my nested VCF environment for my home lab, I kept hitting the same issue over and over again, even when I rolled the environment back and…Sun, 19 Jan 2020 20:21:08 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/naming-conventions/https://veducate.co.uk/naming-conventions/We all know how important it is to have a naming standard for our systems and devices that means something, rather than a number of Greek mythological names…Thu, 16 Jan 2020 16:24:24 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/veeampn-configure-static-ip-for-network-hub/https://veducate.co.uk/veeampn-configure-static-ip-for-network-hub/Today I decided to deploy VeeamPN between two sites. This is a free VPN solution which is optimized for performance. Veeam produced this tool for their…Thu, 16 Jan 2020 00:21:55 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/interview-matthew-steiner-cloud-technologist/https://veducate.co.uk/interview-matthew-steiner-cloud-technologist/Matthew is currently working at VMware as a cloud management technologist, spending the majority of his time visiting customers and discussing their cloud…Mon, 13 Jan 2020 11:44:08 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/support-ticket-template/https://veducate.co.uk/support-ticket-template/Below is a support template I crafted with some members of our VMware GSS team, to help my customers reduce the typical back and forth information gathering to…Thu, 02 Jan 2020 14:47:12 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/synology-moving-a-package-between-volumes/https://veducate.co.uk/synology-moving-a-package-between-volumes/I have a Synology 8-bay NAS used for home-lab purposes, but also doubles as local home storage as well. As part of upgrades, I was decommissioning a volume for…Wed, 01 Jan 2020 21:35:33 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/winscp-elevate-to-root/https://veducate.co.uk/winscp-elevate-to-root/I was using WinSCP to transfer logs from a VMware CloudBuilder appliance to troubleshoot a failed lab deployment, however the files wouldn't transfer as the…Wed, 01 Jan 2020 21:07:04 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vmware-horizon-blast-failed-to-connect-to-connection-server/https://veducate.co.uk/vmware-horizon-blast-failed-to-connect-to-connection-server/After deploying my latest horizon lab, I hit an issue where I could not hit the login page to authenticate for a Horizon desktop using BLAST, I would be…Tue, 31 Dec 2019 15:05:54 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vdi-cleanup-script/https://veducate.co.uk/vdi-cleanup-script/Below is the VDI Cleanup script that I've been using over the years. I thought I'd post this after setting up a Horizon Lab environment. I shared it earlier in…Tue, 31 Dec 2019 14:47:58 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vrealize-automation-8-0-wildcard-ssl-certificate-support-and-deployment-issues-lcmvravaconfig590003/https://veducate.co.uk/vrealize-automation-8-0-wildcard-ssl-certificate-support-and-deployment-issues-lcmvravaconfig590003/Ok, so I'm just going to call it out straight away, when using wildcard SSL certificates with vRealize Automation 8.0, read the release notes. I did not, and…Thu, 31 Oct 2019 20:43:43 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vrslcm-vrops-upgrade-fails-due-to-admin-password-expiry/https://veducate.co.uk/vrslcm-vrops-upgrade-fails-due-to-admin-password-expiry/When the vRealize 8 products dropped, I was like a kid in a sweet shop, upgrading everything as quick as possible before my customers tried to, so I could…Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:26:36 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vrslcm-8-0-default-storage-is-too-small/https://veducate.co.uk/vrslcm-8-0-default-storage-is-too-small/PSA: The default deployment of vRealize LifeCycle Manager 8 configuration has a storage disk which is too small for the most tasks. I found this issue after…Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:13:50 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vmware-lifecycle-manager-migration-error-ssh-is-not-enabled-or-invalid-lcmmigration15102/https://veducate.co.uk/vmware-lifecycle-manager-migration-error-ssh-is-not-enabled-or-invalid-lcmmigration15102/During my migration from vRSLCM 2.1 patch 2 to the latest version 8 release, I encountered the following error; Error Code: LCMMIGRATION15102 vRSLCM Migration…Sat, 19 Oct 2019 22:42:08 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vmware-vrealize-lifecycle-manager-8-migration-process-screenshots/https://veducate.co.uk/vmware-vrealize-lifecycle-manager-8-migration-process-screenshots/VMware vRealize LifeCycle Manager 8 released earlier this week, 17th October 2019. Note the official name and abbreviation, its a long one! vRSLCM (vRealize…Sat, 19 Oct 2019 17:17:27 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vmware-ports-and-protocols-all-in-one-place/https://veducate.co.uk/vmware-ports-and-protocols-all-in-one-place/Getting hold of all the VMware products various ports and protocols has sometimes come across like pulling blood from a stone. However as announced yesterday…Tue, 27 Aug 2019 12:13:54 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vmware-cloud-foundation-sddc-manager-license-key-is-not-valid/https://veducate.co.uk/vmware-cloud-foundation-sddc-manager-license-key-is-not-valid/Quick blog post, there has been known issue in VMware Cloud Foundation 3.5, 3.7 & 3.8 that reports your SDDC manager license key as invalid as the below…Thu, 15 Aug 2019 09:46:57 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/powercli-gui-clone-machine-dhcp-cpuid/https://veducate.co.uk/powercli-gui-clone-machine-dhcp-cpuid/In this blog post, I am going to break down a PowerShell code I have created (with help from some colleagues). The functions of this PowerShell code are…Mon, 05 Aug 2019 15:07:18 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vrops-what-is-the-isgreenforplacement-metric-dashboard/https://veducate.co.uk/vrops-what-is-the-isgreenforplacement-metric-dashboard/A customer of mine queried the details of a metric available in vROPs "IsGreenForPlacement" You can find this by selecting a cluster in vROPs, go to All…Thu, 01 Aug 2019 15:42:24 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/using-vrops-to-track-adoption/https://veducate.co.uk/using-vrops-to-track-adoption/I had an interesting question from a customer recently; Can we track the adoption/upgrades of VMware tools to the latest version in a vROPs dashboard At first…Wed, 31 Jul 2019 16:32:18 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/recipe-grilled-mexican-chicken-perfect-for-tacos/https://veducate.co.uk/recipe-grilled-mexican-chicken-perfect-for-tacos/Something completely different; I was taking to my customer about the most amazing Mexican chicken I make for Tacos. So I shared with him the recipe, thought…Thu, 02 May 2019 10:36:25 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/penetration-tests/https://veducate.co.uk/penetration-tests/This blog post is by no means a comprehensive guide from an expert in the cyber security area. However my previous role meant I had the pleasure of reviewing a…Mon, 22 Apr 2019 19:21:38 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/interview-ian-sanderson/https://veducate.co.uk/interview-ian-sanderson/The last interview I wrote up was back in 2017, although I've made efforts to kick off a continuation of this series, I stalled. I recently went over some of…Mon, 25 Mar 2019 12:30:45 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/virtually-speaking-podcast-guest-appearance-ep-109-fire-flood-blood/https://veducate.co.uk/virtually-speaking-podcast-guest-appearance-ep-109-fire-flood-blood/I'm delighted to be a guest on the Virtually Speaking podcast, in their latest episode release "Fire, Flood, Blood". I'm lucky enough to have met the hosts of…Mon, 25 Mar 2019 08:19:59 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/upgrade-vsphere-55/https://veducate.co.uk/upgrade-vsphere-55/VMworld 2018, I was lucky enough to get my name down on the list to present on the vBrownbag stage, a community driven source of brilliant knowledge articles…Sun, 24 Mar 2019 13:59:14 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/microsoft-azure-for-vsphere-admins/https://veducate.co.uk/microsoft-azure-for-vsphere-admins/At VMworld 2018 I was invited to speak on the vBrownbag platform, which is a great community focused and run resource. Below is my session "Microsoft Azure for…Sat, 23 Mar 2019 17:53:25 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/new-job/https://veducate.co.uk/new-job/So I think I seen someone say on Twitter its silly season as we enter the winter period with people announcing they are moving jobs etc. And given the number…Sun, 04 Nov 2018 11:56:54 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/this-blog-has-been-rebranded/https://veducate.co.uk/this-blog-has-been-rebranded/Hi All, So after owning the vEducate.co.uk domain for a while, I've finally got around to re-branding the blog and even produced a basic logo. I'll retain…Fri, 02 Nov 2018 09:32:47 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/upgrading-vmware-vsphere-5-5-to-6-5/https://veducate.co.uk/upgrading-vmware-vsphere-5-5-to-6-5/Blog post born from a VMUG Presentation Mid Feb, one of the London VMUG leaders posted on twitter, looking for someone to present on the subject of "upgrading…Tue, 03 Apr 2018 09:56:14 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vmworld-europe-2017-day-1/https://veducate.co.uk/vmworld-europe-2017-day-1/11,000 people (the most ever), have descended upon Barcelona this week for the annual European VMware conference. This year sees the event brought forward from…Wed, 13 Sep 2017 07:27:40 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/first-look-leveraging-nimble-secondary-flash-array-veeam-setup-guide/https://veducate.co.uk/first-look-leveraging-nimble-secondary-flash-array-veeam-setup-guide/Following on with the setup guide of the Nimble Secondary Flash Array, I am going to go through the deployment options, and the settings needed for…Mon, 26 Jun 2017 22:56:21 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/setting-nimble-secondary-flash-array/https://veducate.co.uk/setting-nimble-secondary-flash-array/Nimble Storage have released their newest addition in the line up, the SFA, or to give its full name, the Secondary Flash Array. And in this post, we are going…Wed, 21 Jun 2017 23:06:11 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/now-available-vmware-vsphere-6-5-host-resources-deep-dive/https://veducate.co.uk/now-available-vmware-vsphere-6-5-host-resources-deep-dive/It's here!!! I am sure many of you have been following this technical book closely, the latest publication by Frank Denneman. And now its available to…Tue, 20 Jun 2017 19:49:36 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/video-blogs-veeamon/https://veducate.co.uk/video-blogs-veeamon/Whilst attending VeeamON conference in New Orleans I had the chance to speak on two different video logs, three recordings. Tim Smith - Tim's Tech Thoughts…Tue, 23 May 2017 22:03:20 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/veeamon-announcements/https://veducate.co.uk/veeamon-announcements/The dust settled as my aeroplane wheels landed at Heathrow on Saturday 20th May. VeeamON. So now its time to digest, and detail the information from the worlds…Mon, 22 May 2017 11:22:55 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/hp-imc-backup-cisco/https://veducate.co.uk/hp-imc-backup-cisco/Background I have a customer who is using HP Intelligent Management Center (IMC) to monitor their switching environment. Originally they were using all HP…Mon, 08 May 2017 15:11:15 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/interview-chris-wahl/https://veducate.co.uk/interview-chris-wahl/My fourth blog posts is with one of my favourite online personalities, Chris Wahl, a person whom I've followed the blog of for a long time. I won't add too…Mon, 01 May 2017 10:20:43 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/hpe-stealthy-buys-nimble-storage/https://veducate.co.uk/hpe-stealthy-buys-nimble-storage/Today heralds a shock to the IT industry, even though many kept asking "when will someone snap up Nimble Storage", I think we can say that HPE was not the…Wed, 08 Mar 2017 00:31:37 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/interview-dave-kawula/https://veducate.co.uk/interview-dave-kawula/2017 is kicking off with my third interview blog post, this time focusing on Dave Kawula, MVP and author focusing on Microsoft Technologies. Let's kick off…Tue, 31 Jan 2017 22:36:32 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/nimble-storage-the-life-of-a-failed-disk/https://veducate.co.uk/nimble-storage-the-life-of-a-failed-disk/Today I found out a disk had failed in a production SAN. Oh no!!! But like previous experiences, this is different. And my support experience is pretty darn…Wed, 18 Jan 2017 12:01:42 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/interview-matt-crape/https://veducate.co.uk/interview-matt-crape/In the second interview, Matt Crape of 42u.ca a blog around everything IT, is the person answering the questions. I'd personally been following Matt after his…Mon, 16 Jan 2017 21:52:38 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/interviews-industry-joe-baguley-vmware-emea-cto/https://veducate.co.uk/interviews-industry-joe-baguley-vmware-emea-cto/A while ago, I had the brilliant idea to interview people and peer from the IT industry, from different area's, such as end users/customers, resellers, and…Sat, 24 Dec 2016 13:58:10 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/hp-flexfabric-switches-airflow-direction-not-prefered/https://veducate.co.uk/hp-flexfabric-switches-airflow-direction-not-prefered/Quick note, Installed some HP FlexFabric 5700 switches the other day and I was getting a red LED on the front, and a status message in the CLI HPE…Sat, 10 Dec 2016 06:16:43 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/trend-deep-security-agentless-deployment-nsx-issues-web-reputation-service/https://veducate.co.uk/trend-deep-security-agentless-deployment-nsx-issues-web-reputation-service/So I've just had the pleasure of deploying Trend Deep Security via the Agent-less method, utilizing the NSX free license which allows guest introspection, but…Mon, 12 Sep 2016 09:15:51 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/first-look-veeam-9-5-nimble-storage-integration-part-2/https://veducate.co.uk/first-look-veeam-9-5-nimble-storage-integration-part-2/This is a continuation piece regarding the integration of Nimble Storage to the Veeam Backup & Replication software in the upcoming release 9.5. Part 1 So what…Fri, 01 Jul 2016 19:42:44 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/first-look-veeam-9-5-nimble-storage-integration-part-1/https://veducate.co.uk/first-look-veeam-9-5-nimble-storage-integration-part-1/As a part of the Veeam Vanguard program, I have been given access to the beta version of Veeam 9.5. And in this blog post I will cover some of the integration…Fri, 01 Jul 2016 09:04:20 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/happens-nimble-storage-array-disk-drive-fails/https://veducate.co.uk/happens-nimble-storage-array-disk-drive-fails/I've worked with Nimble Storage devices for over 2 years now, they constantly amaze me, but one of the thing I've yet to see in the field is an actual failure.…Thu, 30 Jun 2016 19:19:34 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/powershell-find-ad-users-homedrives-csv-file/https://veducate.co.uk/powershell-find-ad-users-homedrives-csv-file/I had a customer with around 27 file servers used as locations for AD home drives. We needed to do some analysis on which users used which server, as things…Mon, 27 Jun 2016 07:45:37 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/how-to-produce-good-documentation-part-5-diagraming-your-backups/https://veducate.co.uk/how-to-produce-good-documentation-part-5-diagraming-your-backups/So it's just been a little over a year since Part 4 of my how to document series was posted. I hoped to keep adding to the series, but at the same time, only…Mon, 08 Feb 2016 14:48:45 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/finally-a-onedrive-for-business-client-for-mac-os-x-that-works/https://veducate.co.uk/finally-a-onedrive-for-business-client-for-mac-os-x-that-works/Great news, Microsoft have finally got their backsides into gear, and produced a working OneDrive for Business Client, for Mac OS X. That actually works! Two…Sun, 07 Feb 2016 20:34:36 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/veeam-v9-upgrade-from-v8/https://veducate.co.uk/veeam-v9-upgrade-from-v8/This is just a quick post showing the upgrade process of Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager Veeam Backup and Replication Veeam ONE I didn't hit any issues with…Tue, 26 Jan 2016 23:12:47 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/powercli-setup-host-networking-and-storage-ready-for-iscsi-luns/https://veducate.co.uk/powercli-setup-host-networking-and-storage-ready-for-iscsi-luns/So I am no scripting master, my PowerShell knowledge is still something I want to expand. During an install last week I had a number of hosts to setup from…Tue, 26 Jan 2016 22:29:39 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/further-esxi-6-0-cbt-bug-info-reset-your-cbt/https://veducate.co.uk/further-esxi-6-0-cbt-bug-info-reset-your-cbt/Following on from the recent (November 2015) ESXi 6.0 CBT bug, which has now been fixed in the latest released patch ESXi600-201511401-BG, some further…Tue, 01 Dec 2015 22:26:43 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/sharing-a-generic-troubleshooting-poster-i-found-online-vdm30in30/https://veducate.co.uk/sharing-a-generic-troubleshooting-poster-i-found-online-vdm30in30/I found this post on Reddit, where a user had created a generic troubleshooting poster. It's not aligned to any tech, but can be very useful, especially those…Mon, 30 Nov 2015 13:50:09 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/quick-post-citrix-receiver-clean-uninstall-tool-vdm30in30/https://veducate.co.uk/quick-post-citrix-receiver-clean-uninstall-tool-vdm30in30/The issue On my work based Windows 8.1 VM, I was finding that Citrix Receiver would crash any time I opened an ICA file from a Web Interface/StoreFront…Thu, 26 Nov 2015 22:47:39 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/exam-experience-vmware-vcp6-dt-vdm30in30/https://veducate.co.uk/exam-experience-vmware-vcp6-dt-vdm30in30/Today I took the VCP6-DT exam. It will be retired on 30th November 2015. And is replaced by the VCP6-DTM exam, as part of the VMware exam overhaul. So why take…Thu, 26 Nov 2015 22:17:54 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/esxi-6-0-cbt-issue-kb-2136854-resolved-vdm30in30/https://veducate.co.uk/esxi-6-0-cbt-issue-kb-2136854-resolved-vdm30in30/I wrote about the latest CBT issue (November edition) a couple of days ago, and as promised by VMware a patch has been released. Original issue - KB 2136854…Wed, 25 Nov 2015 22:09:33 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/my-daily-tool-kit-it-gadgets-and-software-vdm30in30/https://veducate.co.uk/my-daily-tool-kit-it-gadgets-and-software-vdm30in30/I have currently spent a lot of time visiting different customer sites and working with them to build up a picture of their environment and such. Usually with…Fri, 20 Nov 2015 22:55:54 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/hp-2920-switch-reboot-issue/https://veducate.co.uk/hp-2920-switch-reboot-issue/Updated 25.11.15 Firmware WB.15.18.0007 resolves the issue, see below A colleague of mine found an issue with the latest HP 2920 switch firmware. If you create…Fri, 20 Nov 2015 21:45:22 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/yet-again-esxi-6-0-cbt-issues-vdm30in30/https://veducate.co.uk/yet-again-esxi-6-0-cbt-issues-vdm30in30/So here we are again, rounding the year off with yet another change block tracking warning. I've written posts previously on the CBT bugs found in 5.5 and…Tue, 17 Nov 2015 20:42:15 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/book-review-citrix-xendesktop-cookbook-third-edition-vdm30in30/https://veducate.co.uk/book-review-citrix-xendesktop-cookbook-third-edition-vdm30in30/So my second book review has been one I've looked to write for a while. I had the chance to work with Citrix XenServer and XenDesktop in-depth as part of a…Tue, 17 Nov 2015 10:30:51 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/book-review-countdown-to-zero-day-vdm30in30/https://veducate.co.uk/book-review-countdown-to-zero-day-vdm30in30/After hearing about this book via twitter, and having an upcoming 8 hour flight plus holiday coming up, I decided to take a plunge into something a little…Mon, 16 Nov 2015 19:57:26 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/exam-experience-cisco-ccnp-datacenter-642-998-designing-cisco-data-center-unified-computing-dcucd-vdm30in30/https://veducate.co.uk/exam-experience-cisco-ccnp-datacenter-642-998-designing-cisco-data-center-unified-computing-dcucd-vdm30in30/Evening, Sorry for the long title. There is two reasons as to why you would be taking this exam. The first is because you want to achieve the CCNP Datacenter…Fri, 13 Nov 2015 21:02:37 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/using-command-prompt-to-log-off-terminal-remote-user-vdm30in30/https://veducate.co.uk/using-command-prompt-to-log-off-terminal-remote-user-vdm30in30/A quick post. I had an issue the other day where I had to remotely administer a server on another site. When I logged in I was greeted by a white screen. I…Tue, 10 Nov 2015 14:47:36 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/citrix-xendesktop-password-reset-not-working-on-wyse-terminals/https://veducate.co.uk/citrix-xendesktop-password-reset-not-working-on-wyse-terminals/The Issue Users password has expired When logging onto a Wyse Client (in this case a C10LE or Dx0D running the latest firmware), you are told your password has…Mon, 21 Sep 2015 11:18:24 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/guest-appearance-on-the-adminadmin-podcast/https://veducate.co.uk/guest-appearance-on-the-adminadmin-podcast/This is a little of a late post but back in June I was invited by the amigos over at AdminAdmin Podcast to chat about my favourite subject. Me! This was…Tue, 18 Aug 2015 17:32:11 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/citrix-storefront-creating-a-public-ssl-certificate/https://veducate.co.uk/citrix-storefront-creating-a-public-ssl-certificate/The latest versions of Citrix receiver require that you use HTTPS for the server bound connections, otherwise you cannot connect. And the information on the…Mon, 27 Jul 2015 22:32:17 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/hp-virtual-connect-upgrade-from-version-3-30-to-4-41/https://veducate.co.uk/hp-virtual-connect-upgrade-from-version-3-30-to-4-41/Hi, Only a quick post, but after my last bashing of HP virtual connect. I've had to endevour another upgrade for a different customer. This time with two HP…Mon, 27 Jul 2015 17:21:36 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/and-more-blogs-and-sites-ive-been-reading-and-sharing/https://veducate.co.uk/and-more-blogs-and-sites-ive-been-reading-and-sharing/A little bit of a longer one than usual, as I was part way through writing this the other month, then I got distracted with other blog posts. Hope you find…Wed, 10 Jun 2015 21:39:58 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/last-minute-veeamonforum-london-plug/https://veducate.co.uk/last-minute-veeamonforum-london-plug/Oops I forgot to post this last week as I was busy finishing off my Cisco UCS Blog posts, but still if you read this in time, maybe you're in the area and can…Wed, 10 Jun 2015 20:38:15 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/deploy-a-cisco-ucs-system-part-4/https://veducate.co.uk/deploy-a-cisco-ucs-system-part-4/Upgrade Cisco UCS firmware safely, from prerequisites and firmware upload through UCS Manager, Fabric Interconnect, and blade server updates.Sun, 07 Jun 2015 23:19:54 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/deploy-a-cisco-ucs-system-part-3-from-scratch-for-vmware-esxi/https://veducate.co.uk/deploy-a-cisco-ucs-system-part-3-from-scratch-for-vmware-esxi/Prepare Cisco UCS FlexFlash SD cards in RAID 1 and install VMware ESXi 6.0 on a blade server through the UCS KVM console.Sun, 07 Jun 2015 23:17:28 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/deploy-a-cisco-ucs-system-part-2-from-scratch-for-vmware-esxi/https://veducate.co.uk/deploy-a-cisco-ucs-system-part-2-from-scratch-for-vmware-esxi/Configure Cisco UCS connectivity, VLANs, port channels, LAN and server policies, vNIC templates, and reusable service profiles for VMware ESXi.Sun, 07 Jun 2015 23:14:18 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/deploy-a-cisco-ucs-system-part-1/https://veducate.co.uk/deploy-a-cisco-ucs-system-part-1/Set up Cisco UCS for VMware ESXi, covering hardware, cabling, prerequisites, policy-based management, Fabric Interconnects, and UCS Manager.Sun, 07 Jun 2015 23:12:20 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vcp5-dcv-exam-experience/https://veducate.co.uk/vcp5-dcv-exam-experience/I passed the VCP5-DCV exam at the start of the week. Why take it now? Having worked with VMware for many years, I've never actually taken a VCP exam, this was…Thu, 04 Jun 2015 17:48:47 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/one-year-blogging/https://veducate.co.uk/one-year-blogging/So my blog is now one year old!!! Unfortunately I didn't get any cake for myself. I bought the domain back Feburary 2014, and setup the WordPress blog official…Mon, 11 May 2015 18:47:39 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vcenter-6-0-client-application-gui-bug-vms-showing-snapshots/https://veducate.co.uk/vcenter-6-0-client-application-gui-bug-vms-showing-snapshots/Today I've noticed that when using the vCenter C# client, each VM shows up as allowing for "Revert to current snapshot" and "Consolidation" however there is no…Mon, 11 May 2015 14:26:47 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/esxi-6-0-more-cbt-woes/https://veducate.co.uk/esxi-6-0-more-cbt-woes/Post update 14th May 2015 VMware have released a hotfix KB2116126. Removed information regarding old CBT workaround for Veeam is incompatible…Mon, 11 May 2015 12:08:17 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/veeam-endpoint-connect-backup-repository/https://veducate.co.uk/veeam-endpoint-connect-backup-repository/I am going to quickly detail how to connect Veeam Endpoint to an existing Veeam Backup and Replication Server to use a backup repository. Covered is; Pre-Reqs…Tue, 05 May 2015 21:13:47 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/veeam-vmce-v8-exam-experience/https://veducate.co.uk/veeam-vmce-v8-exam-experience/I've completed and passed the Veeam VMCE v8 exam, having done the v7 exam some time ago. The official deadline is 15th May, to upgrade from v7 exam to the v8…Tue, 05 May 2015 14:20:17 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/cisco-ucs-install-esxi-6-0/https://veducate.co.uk/cisco-ucs-install-esxi-6-0/So I've just deployed a Cisco UCS B Series system, which is on the HCL as supported by VMware for ESXi 6.0 However there is no install media available as for…Mon, 20 Apr 2015 19:56:44 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/deploying-vcsa-6-0-fails-with-supplied-system-name-is-invalid/https://veducate.co.uk/deploying-vcsa-6-0-fails-with-supplied-system-name-is-invalid/A nice and simple one, the supplied system name (which is the FQDN of the VCSA) is invalid. This is because when deploying a new VCSA from scratch, your DNS…Tue, 14 Apr 2015 21:04:13 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/getting-to-grips-with-the-cisco-ucs-emulator/https://veducate.co.uk/getting-to-grips-with-the-cisco-ucs-emulator/Cisco have been distributing the UCS emulator for a while now, and thanks to some changes, I am now faced with having to deploy some of the systems, so today I…Tue, 07 Apr 2015 20:48:10 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/macing-the-move-windows-to-os-x/https://veducate.co.uk/macing-the-move-windows-to-os-x/Bad Pun I know, but I've made the move from my works laptop running Windows 8.1 over to my personal MacBook Pro. The apple machine is the last of the late 2011…Tue, 07 Apr 2015 20:07:33 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/password-reset-on-cisco-mds-9100-series-fibre-channel-switch/https://veducate.co.uk/password-reset-on-cisco-mds-9100-series-fibre-channel-switch/My most recent customer engagement, was to re-use some older hardware as vSphere disaster recovery. The kit includes a EMC Clariion SAN, and two Cisco MDS 9124…Fri, 27 Mar 2015 15:11:12 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/using-vmware-update-manager-to-automatically-download-dell-drivers-to-esxi/https://veducate.co.uk/using-vmware-update-manager-to-automatically-download-dell-drivers-to-esxi/Last year I wrote about how to use VMware Update Manager to download HP Drivers for ESXi, Since then I've also found out you can add the following Dell…Mon, 16 Mar 2015 10:09:00 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/upgrade-vcsa-to-vmware-vcenter-6/https://veducate.co.uk/upgrade-vcsa-to-vmware-vcenter-6/So I jumped right in and upgraded my VCSA 5.5 to VCSA 6, you can find the official documentation and upgrade steps here. Pre-Reqs from VMware Verify that the…Fri, 13 Mar 2015 00:26:11 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vmware-software-manager-a-quick-guide/https://veducate.co.uk/vmware-software-manager-a-quick-guide/Downloading a VMware Suite with the Push of a Button using VMware Software Manager One of VMware's announcements today alongside the release of VMware vSphere…Thu, 12 Mar 2015 22:37:06 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/setting-up-lacp-on-synology-nas-and-hp-switches/https://veducate.co.uk/setting-up-lacp-on-synology-nas-and-hp-switches/Here I am going through how to setup LACP port trunking for a Synology NAS device using HP Switching. 1. First off get your MAC Addresses of your Synology NAS…Mon, 02 Mar 2015 13:44:48 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/blogs-sites-ive-reading-sharing/https://veducate.co.uk/blogs-sites-ive-reading-sharing/My Firefox tabs have filled up again, some of these tabs have been open since the start of 2014!!! So time to share!!! First off, proud to announce that Cisco…Thu, 05 Feb 2015 04:07:23 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/invited-speak-north-west-england-vmug-25th-february-2015/https://veducate.co.uk/invited-speak-north-west-england-vmug-25th-february-2015/Great news, I've been invited to speak at the North West VMUG on the 25th February. And there is a raffle for a iPad Air 2 and nVidia K2 Graphics card. (That’s…Sun, 01 Feb 2015 21:32:26 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/patch-released-major-bug-vmwares-cbt-function-kb2090639/https://veducate.co.uk/patch-released-major-bug-vmwares-cbt-function-kb2090639/VMware have finally released a patch to fix the Major CBT bug that causes your backups to be corrupted because the changed blocks are reported incorrectly.…Thu, 29 Jan 2015 11:09:35 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/dcpromo-fails-missing-mandatory-configuration/https://veducate.co.uk/dcpromo-fails-missing-mandatory-configuration/On a Server 2008 R2 machine, I had an issue demoting from being a Domain Controller, after moving the FSMO roles onto a new machine. This was after a second…Thu, 29 Jan 2015 09:12:27 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/revision-notes-vmware-network-virtualization-fundamentals-course/https://veducate.co.uk/revision-notes-vmware-network-virtualization-fundamentals-course/VMware released a free course around Network Virtualization Fundamentals, which maps to the first steps on the ladder for all things NSX. It is also…Thu, 22 Jan 2015 21:42:46 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/veeam-hidden-feature-backup-validator/https://veducate.co.uk/veeam-hidden-feature-backup-validator/So the other day I was using the Veeam Backup Extractor Tool, located in the installation folder, when I noticed another .exe file that I hadn't paid attention…Wed, 14 Jan 2015 16:54:36 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/blog-posts-ive-reading-sharing-recently/https://veducate.co.uk/blog-posts-ive-reading-sharing-recently/Since before the Christmas break, I've not had a great deal to write about, in terms of break fix, as I've been busy studying to pass my CCNP exams, and now…Sun, 11 Jan 2015 23:03:23 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/how-to-produce-good-documentation-part-4-diagraming-a-network/https://veducate.co.uk/how-to-produce-good-documentation-part-4-diagraming-a-network/Part 1 – The foundation of any IT infrastructure Part 2 – Rack and Server Diagrams Part 3 - Network IP’s & Interfaces Part 4 - Diagraming a network Part 5 …Sat, 03 Jan 2015 16:47:35 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/predictions-in-the-world-of-it-2015/https://veducate.co.uk/predictions-in-the-world-of-it-2015/Everyone is chiming in with their two cents, so here are mine. Software Defined Networking 2015 will be the year of software defined networking, which is…Tue, 30 Dec 2014 00:26:07 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/cisco-ccnp-tshoot-exam-experience/https://veducate.co.uk/cisco-ccnp-tshoot-exam-experience/I did it, passed the TSHOOT exam, which means I'm now CCNP Certified. Woop!!! So the TSHOOT exam itself, 3 mutliple answer questions 1 Drag and Drop 15 support…Sat, 27 Dec 2014 20:42:19 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/applying-tshoot-methodology-everything/https://veducate.co.uk/applying-tshoot-methodology-everything/Last exam of the year The past few months I’ve forced my head into revision for the three CCNP exams, with two down, I have TSHOOT left to do, and I’m aiming…Tue, 23 Dec 2014 00:53:08 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/look-back-vdm30in30-blogging/https://veducate.co.uk/look-back-vdm30in30-blogging/So the #vDM30in30 challenge is over, which was started off by the guys from Virtual Design Master, and the challenge was to write 30 blog posts in 30 days.…Mon, 15 Dec 2014 23:39:37 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/veeam-v8-backup-fails-nfc-storage-connection-unavailable/https://veducate.co.uk/veeam-v8-backup-fails-nfc-storage-connection-unavailable/I encountered this issue on a brand new Veeam installation the other day. When running a test backup job. "Error: NFC storage connection is unavailable…Wed, 03 Dec 2014 09:45:14 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vmware-nsx-just-introduction/https://veducate.co.uk/vmware-nsx-just-introduction/With my background in Networking and Virtualisation, VMware's NSX is something which interests me deeply, as such I've attended a handful of sessions online…Sun, 30 Nov 2014 22:05:00 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/taking-exams-know-learning-style/https://veducate.co.uk/taking-exams-know-learning-style/I've noticed a lot of activity online about people taking exams before a particular deadline. VCP Delta Exam VCP-NV (No course requirement if you're a…Sun, 30 Nov 2014 19:59:08 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/screen-capture-software-choice-snagit/https://veducate.co.uk/screen-capture-software-choice-snagit/Everyone has their favourites, and mine is SnagIT. It's not free, but it has such a great interface, I can't face using anything else. I use it for capturing…Sat, 29 Nov 2014 12:17:56 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/profwiz-migrating-users-profiles-new-domain/https://veducate.co.uk/profwiz-migrating-users-profiles-new-domain/So a colleague of mine introduced me to this great tool, ForensiT User Profile Wizard. We were migrating a customer from one domain to a new one, and there is…Fri, 28 Nov 2014 15:00:16 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/veeam-v8-active-directory-restore-wizard-action/https://veducate.co.uk/veeam-v8-active-directory-restore-wizard-action/So lets look at one of the best features brought to us in Veeam 8, Active Directory Restore Wizard. 1. Open up the restore, select application items, and then…Thu, 27 Nov 2014 05:25:20 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/how-to-produce-good-documentation-part-3-network/https://veducate.co.uk/how-to-produce-good-documentation-part-3-network/The time is here, lets look at starting to document that network of yours. Part 1 – The foundation of any IT infrastructure Part 2 – Rack and Server Diagrams…Wed, 26 Nov 2014 23:50:52 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/accepted-cisco-champion-program-2015/https://veducate.co.uk/accepted-cisco-champion-program-2015/So tonight was a saved by the bell moment, brought with a little joy. I've been selected for the Cisco Champion Program 2015. So it means I have something to…Tue, 25 Nov 2014 23:45:03 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vmware-horizon-view-connection-server-services-dont-load-public-ssl-cert/https://veducate.co.uk/vmware-horizon-view-connection-server-services-dont-load-public-ssl-cert/So my colleague rang me the other week with a bit of weird issue. After installing the VMware Horizon View Connection Server, the services do not start after…Mon, 24 Nov 2014 23:42:48 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vcenter-lost-dvs-configuration-fixing-hosts/https://veducate.co.uk/vcenter-lost-dvs-configuration-fixing-hosts/So I hit an interesting issue whilst performing a VMware upgrade from 4.0 to 5.5. There was a legacy issue left where vCenter had lost its…Sun, 23 Nov 2014 14:53:39 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/extending-server-2003-disk-partitions-using-dell-extpart/https://veducate.co.uk/extending-server-2003-disk-partitions-using-dell-extpart/So we all know that we should be migrating away from Server 2003 as its end of life June 2015. But until then we still need to manage it. So lets look at how…Sat, 22 Nov 2014 11:13:07 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/installing-vmware-horizon-view-composer-fails-error-1920/https://veducate.co.uk/installing-vmware-horizon-view-composer-fails-error-1920/The issue So today I was installing VMware Horizon View Composer on my Server 2012 R2 vCenter machine, where the SQL database is also local to this machine.…Fri, 21 Nov 2014 23:12:49 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vmware-update-manager-fixing-vcenter-plugin-issues/https://veducate.co.uk/vmware-update-manager-fixing-vcenter-plugin-issues/VMware Update Manager is one of the most necessary tools in your environment, it's also built really well and can be customized to fit your environment.…Thu, 20 Nov 2014 22:01:07 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/back-future-configure-esx-4-0-iscsi-multipathing/https://veducate.co.uk/back-future-configure-esx-4-0-iscsi-multipathing/So I'm in the middle of an upgrade of environment that has; 2 x Hosts on ESX 4.0 SAN using SAS connections to Hosts No resources available for failover and…Wed, 19 Nov 2014 23:06:18 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/veeam-one-v8-new-look-new-features/https://veducate.co.uk/veeam-one-v8-new-look-new-features/So I covered Veeam Backup and Replication v8 here. And now for the Veeam ONE Edition of the v8 update post. The Update Process Pretty simple, mount the ISO…Tue, 18 Nov 2014 22:57:35 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/veeam-high-level-end-user-case-study/https://veducate.co.uk/veeam-high-level-end-user-case-study/Sometimes we get so bogged down into the technical details, we forget that some people just want to know about a product and how it's used, not how to…Mon, 17 Nov 2014 23:08:18 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/setting-ilo-ip-address-via-esxi-cli/https://veducate.co.uk/setting-ilo-ip-address-via-esxi-cli/HP iLO is a great tool to have, remote console access, unfortunately it is sometimes forgotten by engineers and technicians to be configured. Which is a pain…Sun, 16 Nov 2014 17:16:44 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/using-powercli-create-virtual-machine-port-groups/https://veducate.co.uk/using-powercli-create-virtual-machine-port-groups/So basically I had a host failure where all of the configure was lost, if I was more savvy with Powershell/PowerCLI, I would have been able to rebuild it all…Sat, 15 Nov 2014 17:16:11 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/get-powershelling-remove-jobrole/https://veducate.co.uk/get-powershelling-remove-jobrole/Coding, Scripting, Powershelling, etc etc, Dirty words in the mouth of Infrastructure guys across the globe. When I was in college taking on my computer…Fri, 14 Nov 2014 22:18:22 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/employer-looking-technical-role/https://veducate.co.uk/employer-looking-technical-role/So after an interesting North West VMUG event on 12th November, I've decided to write my own comments on the state of employment within IT. This is prompted by…Thu, 13 Nov 2014 15:29:44 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/looking-back-vmware-vdi-deployment/https://veducate.co.uk/looking-back-vmware-vdi-deployment/My good friend Nathan Bryne wrote a good post about "Do I really need to do a Desktop Assessment?", which got me thinking. I worked at a college for around 3…Wed, 12 Nov 2014 22:39:31 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/hp-ams-driver-causes-esxi-memory-leak/https://veducate.co.uk/hp-ams-driver-causes-esxi-memory-leak/So basically I had a customer hit by a known HP-AMS driver issue (KB2085618), the symptons were as follows; Unable to vMotion a VM to another host, gives…Tue, 11 Nov 2014 23:14:49 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/veeam-fails-upgrade-v8-enterprise-manager/https://veducate.co.uk/veeam-fails-upgrade-v8-enterprise-manager/So the other day I blogged about the Veeam v8 upgrade, and as mentioned my Enterprise Manager didn't work, giving the error; The Access Control List is not in…Mon, 10 Nov 2014 15:06:33 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/embracing-social-media-world/https://veducate.co.uk/embracing-social-media-world/So this domain name was purchased in April 2014, and the blog created at the same time. I used to teach CompTIA courses, and therefore my main idea, which I…Sun, 09 Nov 2014 11:46:09 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/now-bringing-caas-confused-service/https://veducate.co.uk/now-bringing-caas-confused-service/Note: This blog post first appeared on my employers website, March 2014, wrote by myself. The past 12 months have seen an explosion of marketing Buzzwords…Sat, 08 Nov 2014 16:23:21 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/veeam-v8-new-features-upgrade-process/https://veducate.co.uk/veeam-v8-new-features-upgrade-process/So Veeam's High Availability Suite is here!!!! Basically v8. So in this post we are looking at Features and the upgrade of the program, and using the program…Fri, 07 Nov 2014 14:23:39 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/produce-good-documentation-part-2-diagrams-diagrams-diagrams/https://veducate.co.uk/produce-good-documentation-part-2-diagrams-diagrams-diagrams/Part 1 – The foundation of any IT infrastructure Part 2 - Rack and Server Diagrams Part 3 - Network IP's & Interfaces Part 4 - Diagraming a network Part 5 …Thu, 06 Nov 2014 08:46:45 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/cisco-ccnp-624-813-switch-exam-experience/https://veducate.co.uk/cisco-ccnp-624-813-switch-exam-experience/So I took and passed my CCNP Switch Exam on Monday morning. 934 out of 1000. I've been meaning to do my CCNP for the past two and a half years, since I passed…Wed, 05 Nov 2014 19:06:00 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/cisco-ccnp-training-bootcamp-roundup/https://veducate.co.uk/cisco-ccnp-training-bootcamp-roundup/So this post is mainly a big round-up of the day by day posts I made of my CCNP bootcamp notes. Here is a list by topics covered each day to make it easier for…Tue, 04 Nov 2014 21:24:58 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/using-vmware-update-manager-to-automatically-download-hp-drivers-to-esxi/https://veducate.co.uk/using-vmware-update-manager-to-automatically-download-hp-drivers-to-esxi/I stumbled across this little gem of a post yesterday, I tried to use the WordPress reblog feature, but it's not working, so thanks to Kalle who wrote it. So…Tue, 04 Nov 2014 09:49:11 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/cisco-ccnp-training-course-day-8-switch/https://veducate.co.uk/cisco-ccnp-training-course-day-8-switch/So day 8 essentially was the last day of the bootcamp, with Day 9 + 10 being left for TSHOOT, of which there is very little documented, as its.......…Wed, 29 Oct 2014 00:06:43 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/major-bug-in-vmwares-cbt-function-kb2090639-causes-data-corruption-for-backups/https://veducate.co.uk/major-bug-in-vmwares-cbt-function-kb2090639-causes-data-corruption-for-backups/Updated 29.01.15 - Please see this new post for the patch fix So on twitter I found out that VMware CBT has a bit of a fault, the tweet linked me to reddit…Mon, 27 Oct 2014 11:02:52 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/ccnp-bootcamp-day-7-switch/https://veducate.co.uk/ccnp-bootcamp-day-7-switch/Lets Jump straight in... Covered is MST Config Etherchannel Spanning-Tree BPDU Guard, Filter, Loop Guard, Root Guard, UDLD Uplink Fast, Backbone Fast HSRP MST…Sun, 26 Oct 2014 22:29:45 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/veeam-vmce-course-exam-experience/https://veducate.co.uk/veeam-vmce-course-exam-experience/So I passed my VMCE exam the other week. Basically I sat the course and the exam due to working for a Veeam Gold partner, which requires that the partner has…Mon, 20 Oct 2014 14:56:35 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vmware-5-1-vcenter-appliance-call-eventhistorycollector-setlatestpagesize-for-object-sessionid-on-vcenter-server-failed/https://veducate.co.uk/vmware-5-1-vcenter-appliance-call-eventhistorycollector-setlatestpagesize-for-object-sessionid-on-vcenter-server-failed/So I noticed an issue when using the vSphere Client to connect to the VMware vCenter Server Appliance was appearing every now and again. Call…Mon, 20 Oct 2014 08:34:53 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/cisco-ccnp-training-course-day-5-switch/https://veducate.co.uk/cisco-ccnp-training-course-day-5-switch/Ok so my Switch exam is booked, so time to get back on top of blogging my bootcamp notes, which is going to be a bit hard now I've left it a few weeks. So, to…Sun, 19 Oct 2014 21:50:37 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vmworld-day-3-4-final-notes/https://veducate.co.uk/vmworld-day-3-4-final-notes/So I didnt get a change to write up Day 3 nor Day 4, but now I'm home, I can get into it as writing blog posts and uploading pictures from your iPad to…Sun, 19 Oct 2014 14:25:13 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vmworld-vmworld-day-2-keynote-sessions-on-nsx-euc-and-performance/https://veducate.co.uk/vmworld-vmworld-day-2-keynote-sessions-on-nsx-euc-and-performance/So today was the first day of proper sessions and the keynote. This is my first year at VMworld, but you can tell there is something missing slightly, and…Wed, 15 Oct 2014 07:58:46 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vmworld-2014-day-1/https://veducate.co.uk/vmworld-2014-day-1/So day one is usually for two things, partner day, and Hands on Labs. Unfortunately the session I was most hoping to see at partner day was "delivering best in…Tue, 14 Oct 2014 08:18:38 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/signing-off-to-hit-vmworld-plus-a-republish-of-my-last-post/https://veducate.co.uk/signing-off-to-hit-vmworld-plus-a-republish-of-my-last-post/Afternoon, This is me signing off from producing technical posts for a week whilst I attend #VMworld Barcelona for the week. I am taking some technology with…Sun, 12 Oct 2014 15:40:12 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/how-to-produce-good-documentation-part-1-the-foundation-of-any-it-infrastructure/https://veducate.co.uk/how-to-produce-good-documentation-part-1-the-foundation-of-any-it-infrastructure/Part 1 - The foundation of any IT infrastructure Part 2 – Rack and Server Diagrams Part 3 - Network IP’s & Interfaces Part 4 - Diagraming a network Part 5 …Sat, 11 Oct 2014 10:24:14 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vmworld-barcelona-2014-here-i-come/https://veducate.co.uk/vmworld-barcelona-2014-here-i-come/So I'm off to do my first year at VMware VMworld in Barcelona next week. Which means no posts from me for over a week. I'm looking forward to it, I actually am…Thu, 09 Oct 2014 14:00:54 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/using-vmware-and-cdp-information-hp-and-cisco-switches/https://veducate.co.uk/using-vmware-and-cdp-information-hp-and-cisco-switches/So on of the most valuable networking features of VMware is setting up CDP information or LLDP (if using non cisco devices). We can see exactly which VMNIC is…Wed, 08 Oct 2014 20:37:31 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/creating-vpn-tunnel-between-cisco-asa-and-watchguard-xtm/https://veducate.co.uk/creating-vpn-tunnel-between-cisco-asa-and-watchguard-xtm/Today was the second time I've done this in around a year, it's a little uncommon to be honest, which means googling advice on how to do it, is a bit thin.…Wed, 01 Oct 2014 18:46:46 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vmware-esxi-test-jumbo-packets-using-vmkping/https://veducate.co.uk/vmware-esxi-test-jumbo-packets-using-vmkping/So first off we need to setup Jumbo frames in a few places. ESXi host Switch the ESXi host and Storage is plugged into Storage device As per VMware ESXi 5.0…Thu, 25 Sep 2014 11:34:33 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/microsoft-exchange-no-dns-servers-could-be-retrieved-from-network-adapter/https://veducate.co.uk/microsoft-exchange-no-dns-servers-could-be-retrieved-from-network-adapter/The other day whilst virtualising an Exchange 2010 server from Hyper-V to VMware we found that mail routing outbound stopped working. When looking in the event…Mon, 22 Sep 2014 20:27:38 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/how-to-setup-veeam-direct-san-backup-over-iscsi-unleash-the-speed/https://veducate.co.uk/how-to-setup-veeam-direct-san-backup-over-iscsi-unleash-the-speed/On twitter Rick Vanover posted this link, which intrigued me, giving your Veeam Server access to the VMware VMFS volumes for quicker backups. Sounds dangerous…Thu, 18 Sep 2014 15:48:49 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/cisco-ccnp-training-course-day-5/https://veducate.co.uk/cisco-ccnp-training-course-day-5/Forgive me for taking a few days off from blogging about my training course. As you'll guess I've done the 2 week course. It was very good, The Knowledge…Wed, 17 Sep 2014 22:53:11 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/nimble-storage-how-to-update-an-array/https://veducate.co.uk/nimble-storage-how-to-update-an-array/In keeping with the whole Nimble is really to use theme, updates are the same, lets take a look; 1. Open up your web portal to the Nimble Array, click on…Tue, 16 Sep 2014 12:38:05 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/nimble-storage-how-to-configure-a-device-in-4-steps-using-the-gui-tool/https://veducate.co.uk/nimble-storage-how-to-configure-a-device-in-4-steps-using-the-gui-tool/So the last time I used a Nimble Device, I had to configure it (quite easily) using the CLI first due to connectivity constraints at the customers site.…Mon, 15 Sep 2014 18:30:26 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/cisco-ccnp-training-course-day-4/https://veducate.co.uk/cisco-ccnp-training-course-day-4/Day 4 - Kind of, the course has mostly followed each of my post, however I have kind of mixed and match a few things so they flow better. Also i've found out…Wed, 10 Sep 2014 22:31:57 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/cisco-ccnp-training-course-day-3/https://veducate.co.uk/cisco-ccnp-training-course-day-3/On to-day 3, most of you have probably noticed that I am posting these online a day behind when I actually take the class, which is helpful, as I spend the…Sun, 07 Sep 2014 23:35:39 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/cisco-ccnp-training-course-day-2/https://veducate.co.uk/cisco-ccnp-training-course-day-2/So lets dive into Day 2, One of the things I will also aim to do is re-create the topologies in Packet Tracer and upload the files for your use at some point…Wed, 03 Sep 2014 21:05:12 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/cisco-ccnp-training-course-day-1/https://veducate.co.uk/cisco-ccnp-training-course-day-1/Note: This is a dump from my notes of the day, I will write more posts on each subject for my training in the future and elaborate as I go on. Just a quick…Tue, 02 Sep 2014 21:00:42 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/nimble-storage-how-to-configure-a-device-from-scratch/https://veducate.co.uk/nimble-storage-how-to-configure-a-device-from-scratch/The other day, I posted about how to setup a volume on a Nimble Storage device, so this post is a bit backwards, as now we look at setting up a device from…Mon, 01 Sep 2014 22:22:18 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/nimble-storage-how-to-create-a-volume/https://veducate.co.uk/nimble-storage-how-to-create-a-volume/A quick friday post, I am upgrading the environment at my work place, and we are putting the fantastic Nimble Storage device as our SAN for the VMware…Fri, 22 Aug 2014 18:44:53 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/hp-chassis-and-virtual-connect-firmware-upgrades-dont-bother/https://veducate.co.uk/hp-chassis-and-virtual-connect-firmware-upgrades-dont-bother/So last night was a busy one thanks to the HP Chassis and "fantastic" Virtual Connect system. Bare with this article, as its part what happens blah blah, and…Wed, 13 Aug 2014 09:33:22 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/server-2012-r1r2-creating-a-network-team-and-enable-jumbo-frames/https://veducate.co.uk/server-2012-r1r2-creating-a-network-team-and-enable-jumbo-frames/Server 2012 now supports NIC teaming, previously you could use HP tools to achieve this in Server 2008 R2 and below, but officially it was never supported by…Thu, 07 Aug 2014 14:32:09 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/cisco-asa-allow-traffic-between-two-same-security-level-interfaces/https://veducate.co.uk/cisco-asa-allow-traffic-between-two-same-security-level-interfaces/This is just a quick one, A customer of mine has two companies running in the same building, using the same ISP connection, as such the Firewall is essentially…Wed, 06 Aug 2014 09:26:52 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/vmware-esxi-5-5-u1-psod-on-hp-proliant-g7-psod/https://veducate.co.uk/vmware-esxi-5-5-u1-psod-on-hp-proliant-g7-psod/For the past few weeks I've been working with a customer to resolve an issue with a re-purposed host where it PSOD every week. Issue: We installed a new HP…Sun, 20 Jul 2014 22:39:01 GMThttps://veducate.co.uk/hello-world/https://veducate.co.uk/hello-world/Good Evening, This is the first step into the wide world of an idea which has been burning away at me for some time. I am a; IT Technician, Engineer, Teacher.…Fri, 04 Apr 2014 22:08:22 GMT