Reset 120 day RDS Grace period on 2016 and 2019
If you have a home lab environment or another lab where you continually test various solutions, licensing, and trial expiration is a challenge that you constantly tend to run into.…
Month: October 2020
Manage Your vSphere Environment Using PowerShell
Automation is the “king of the road” when it comes to managing today’s fast-paced infrastructure. VMware vSphere is an environment that greatly benefits from automation and allows organizations to lower…
Manually Remove disconnected vSphere template from vCenter
Recently, I got in a situation with a VMware vSphere template that left me in a precarious position in the lab environment.  In the haste of rebuilding a lab environment, I…
Solving IO Performance Problems at the Source with Condusiv
There is no question that solving IO performance problems at the source is often one of the most challenging issues to diagnose and resolve in most virtualized environments. Most often,…
StarWind HyperConverged Appliance for Video Surveillance and Analytics
As part of proper physical security measures, many organizations make use of video surveillance platforms to help protect physical locations from theft, vandalism, and unscrupulous conduct of employees or visitors. …
Upgrade to ESXi 7 Update 1 using vSphere Lifecycle Manager VLCM
One of the great new features that was included starting in vSphere 7 is the new vSphere Lifecycle Manager (VLCM) tool. The new tool provides a declarative approach to upgrades…
Cameyo Expands Remote Worker Security with HTTP Port Shield
Remote work does not look to be going away any time soon. I covered a solution not long ago called Cameyo that offers a truly unique, simple, and secure way…
VMware vSphere 7 Update 1 GA Released for Download
Today is beautiful news to the ears of all vSphere administrators who have been longingly awaiting the availability of vSphere 7 Update 1. The vSphere 7 U1 release contains many…
vSAN Daemon Liveness Check Failed – vSAN 7
***UPDATE*** Fix is detailed in the VMware KB below. One of the great things about running the home lab is you get to triage issues just like you would see…
VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery: On-Demand DRaaS
There were many exciting announcements at VMworld 2020 this year. One of the announcements that caught my attention was a new offering called VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery that provides an…