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.InstanceUuid≠ .ExtensionData.Client.ServiceContent.About.InstanceUuid

Fri, 15 Apr 2022 06:55:00 +0000

Introduction connection.InstanceUuid ≠ connection.ExtensionData.Client.ServiceContent.About.InstanceUuid Let's connect to vCenter and check the two: if (! $creds) { $creds = Get-Credential}$connection = Connect-VIServer -Server '' -Credential $creds$connection.InstanceUuid$connection.ExtensionData.Client.ServiceContent.Abou...

Duplicate your prod environment to a container based dev environment

Sun, 26 Dec 2021 11:55:38 +0000

In my previous post I explained how you can run VCSIM in a native M1 container. If you don't use a Mac with that CPU you can just download the official container and run it local in Docker. Now, VCSIM contains a cool feature to load in an environment. William Lam did a great article about that. You first need to export it first using GOVC: Lin...

Running vcsim native on Mac Silicon with M1 chip in docker

Tue, 21 Dec 2021 10:45:04 +0000

So, I bought this brand new laptop to do some development work. For a couple of reasons, the MacBook Pro with an M1 chip (either Pro or Max - you cannot go wrong here) suited best for me. It has long battery life, it's very powerful, silent, and has high memory for loads of simultaneous containers (and hopefully in the future x86/x64...

Passed: 2V0-21.19 Professional VMware vSphere 6.7 - my exam from home experience

Thu, 14 May 2020 12:07:13 +0000

It was about time do run a new VCP exam. Even though the status doesn't expire anymore, I planned it for this year anyway. So after some study and hands-on, I just gave it a go. I used the 20% discount attached to the VMUG Advantage (which actually worked pretty well, saved me about 40 euro's). These days (due to Corona COVID-19) you can now ...

Access VM console in a secured environment - part 1

Tue, 17 Mar 2020 08:00:02 +0000

Accessing the VM console always requires a direct connection to the ESXi host running the VM. If you've got a user/insecure network and you firewalled your ESXi/vCenter servers, you cannot access the console without opening the port for that whole network (you never know who requires a connection to any of the hosts for that console). This ar...

PowerShell 7.0 GA

Thu, 05 Mar 2020 07:28:34 +0000

Some great news came overnight. Microsoft has announced the release of PowerShell 7.0.0. After a couple of release candidates we now have 7.0.0! Awesome! But does PowerCLI work? Let's check that out!!! Something to note (from the original article): Which Microsoft products already support PowerShell 7? Any module that is already support...

6502 computer on a breadboard

Sun, 01 Mar 2020 20:44:46 +0000

Besides 'work', I also got hobbies (some might say I've got too many). In this first post, I'll share my love for electronics. And I would like to highlight this 6502 CPU on a breadboard. For the last couple of months, I've been following Ben Eater on YouTube, watching his tutorials, decided to order the components and start building. The beauty of...

vEXPERT 2020 in the pocket!

Wed, 26 Feb 2020 10:56:57 +0000

Last year I wrote this article: https://www.jume.nl/blogging-again - Blogging again My main frustration was seeing all those Twitter and Blog posts where a lot of people were receiving the vEXPERT award. So I started blogging again, sharing knowledge on forums and tried to be the go-to guy in my customer organizat...

Some short PowerShell tips #4

Fri, 21 Feb 2020 15:50:45 +0000

Tip 5: Try a container! As a followup on tip 4, you can also try (and of course even run in production) PowerShell (and PowerCLI) in a container with for example Docker! This allows you to investigate if PowerShell is something for you. If you're a long time PowerCLI user, grab that container too! Links: Official PowerShell container:&n...

VMUG Advantage - cont.

Mon, 27 Jan 2020 19:09:08 +0000

Last week I decided to buy VMUG Advantage. Apparently, the post was picked up by Jochen Ramm. And as I replied: the onboarding was a smooth experience. But there is more!!! I posted VMUG Advantage so often, but maybe people believe more in the guys who really know what they are talking about ;-) https://t.co/wy3JcNWdAH @VMUG_RheinRuhr @Germany...

The query execution timed out (DatastorePropertyProvider)

Mon, 27 Jan 2020 14:21:30 +0000

In case of a host with a lot of snapshots or read-only enabled LUNs (which could be the case when you've got a host dedicated as standby host in DR site), mounting an existing datastore can be a challenge through the UI. The activity bar keeps running for minutes and then presents an error: The query execution timed out because of a back-end p...

Some short PowerShell tips #3

Mon, 20 Jan 2020 16:01:59 +0000

Tip 4: We left off with tip 3, using group-object. This tip is about the PowerShell version. Did you know every version of PowerShell gets lots of performance optimizations? So my tip for now: try out different PowerShell versions! At the time of writing, PowerShell 5.1 Desktop is installed on Windows 10, and the latest stable is 6.2.3 ...

VMUG Advantage

Mon, 20 Jan 2020 14:33:20 +0000

Today I decided to buy the VMUG Advantage Membership. The membership is around for a while now but for some reason; I never cared to take a good look at it. It provides some great resources and discounts, and since I plan to go to VMworld, get some certifications and play around in the homelab this year, I thought: why not... VM...

Some short PowerShell tips #2

Wed, 15 Jan 2020 12:24:36 +0000

Tip 3: Are you using Where-Object or if/else/elseif in a loop to filter out or to process whatever you need? Consider using: Group-Object. PS H:\> Get-Help Group-ObjectNAME Group-ObjectSYNTAX Group-Object [[-Property] ] [-NoElement] [-AsHashTable] [-AsString] [-InputObject ] [-Culture &...

Some short Powershell tips #1

Mon, 13 Jan 2020 09:13:58 +0000

Tip 1: If you're in a folder (using your file explorer), and want to open a Powershell box there (or command box also works), type 'powershell.exe' in its path and the new window opens at that location. If you run PowerShell Core, you can also use 'pwsh' or if you want a command box window, use 'cmd'. Tip 2: Last few days I've been crea...

ForEach vs Select-Object -ExpandProperty

Wed, 04 Sep 2019 07:15:31 +0000

Quite often I see scripts which use a ForEach loop to expand an array in an array and display that as a list. There is nothing wrong with that, however, another method is using 'Select-Object' with the 'ExpandProperty' option. To illustrate, here is an example: 'I want to have a list with cluster and their datastores, but every datastore should be ...

Tricking the VM BIOS RTC to set a time

Thu, 08 Aug 2019 14:16:12 +0000

Remember this one? You can select the VM BIOS RTC clock to a certain time!!! And that is cool because this is still 'supported' - or at least it's working! It took me some searching and some blog and forum posts are 12 years old! All you need to do is edit your VM's configuration and add the following lines: time.synchronize.c...

NLVMUG: Here I come!

Wed, 20 Mar 2019 15:17:30 +0000

Tomorrow (21-3-2019) a new NLVMUG event is starting. And I'm going!!! I'm really looking forward to this event: so many great sessions, great presenters, great sponsors and not so great venue (I think parking would get troublesome, however, there is a bus driving from a parking lot). I've been building my session list, check it out: ...

Solving PSOD 'Panic Requested by another PCPU'

Mon, 18 Mar 2019 12:09:33 +0000

I've been hunting down this issue for one of my clients. They have brand new Dell T440 servers (I've also seen this issue on brand new DELL T640 servers). Great gear - however, after running for a couple of weeks we got this PSOD on one of the servers. This PSOD is not good (in general: PSOD's never are, haha). As this is a brand new server, I did ...

Troubleshooting disk latency (cont.)

Wed, 13 Mar 2019 20:10:00 +0000

So yesterday we left off after changing the power setting in the BIOS. Now after a day, I've got results, and they are promising!!! Let's start with some CPU metric comparison.