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Recently I was working on some vSphere 6.7 ESXi hosts that some NFS shares had been deleted from the storage server before the datastores had been unmounted from the ESXi hosts. For the hosts that had NOT been rebooted since … Continue reading →

I had a task to update a number of Fujitsu Primergy BX2580 M1 servers from VMware ESXi 6.5 to ESX 6.7. All of them were on VMware ESXi 6.5 build 17167537. Most of them had been build with Fujitsu-VMware-Installer-6.5-10175896-V421-1 custom … Continue reading →

I thought it was time to have another look at vRealize Operations Manager (vROps). The last time I used it was probably version 5.7 and called vCenter Operations Manager (vCOps). I have access to a couple of vSphere 6 environments … Continue reading →

I had a requirement to copy files to some web server VMs running in a DMZ that I could not access across the network. The only connectivity I had to them was via the Virtual Machine Console and logging on … Continue reading →

Should I stick with an iPhone or switch back to Android or even get a Windows Phone? Don’t swear at me and say get a Blackberry! I am currently using an iPhone 4S which I have had for just over … Continue reading →

Confused about what a Private VLAN is, as compared to a “normal” VLAN. Hopefully this article will make it all clear. Why do we need Private VLANs? VLANs are used to segregate the network. Let’s say you have a simple … Continue reading →