For migration purposes I needed to read all the firewall and NAT rules contained in a vCloud Director Edge Gateway. I created this PowerShell script to read all the info using the vCloud Director A...

Not many are using Auto Deploy with stateless hosts, but I’m a big fan of it. Though sometimes I’m pulling my hair trying to figure out why stuff isn’t working since there is also very little docum...

When working with NUMA we’d like to be able to monitor how much of the VMs memory is coming from the local NUMA node. In ESXTOP you can find the value by going to the Memory page, enable the NUMA c...

To save on Microsoft SQL licenses, we decided to merge two VMware Clusters into one. The clusters were in different vCenters and the source Cluster was running ESXi 6.5u2 and the target cluster was...

As you read in my previous post, I’ve made the switch to Windows 10 from OSX and was running into some issue with my Wifi. Now, a few weeks later I switched my cable mouse to a new nice Bluetooth m...

Recently I got a new Dell XPS 13 - 9365 and I truly love the machine. The display is very crisp at 3200 pixels wide, the tough screen is awesome and it is a very light machine. There was just one t...

Last week my user account was constantly locked out after 4hrs. I had just changed my password and I immediately guessed there most be some service somewhere for which I had used my account, but wh...

For new customers we often need to migrate their virtual machines from their datacenter into our datacenter. We use VEEAM Backup & Replication for this because it offers us the ability to pre-s...

Recently I had an issue in my homelab environment. Because of some power outages, my vCenter Appliance hadn’t been shutdown correctly and now vCenter didn’t start correctly anymore. After some sear...

Today I tried to upgrade my ESXi hosts to ESXi 6.0 Update 2. Since it is just a home lab booted from USB and I don’t use update manager, the easiest way for me is to update using the downloaded ZIP...