My last two posts have detailed information about a major project that I had an opportunity to lead. As part of that project, I wrote a fairly detailed retrospective where I wanted to cover interesting facts, issues that I encountered, and the resolutions to those issues. One of the interesting facts that I included was… Read More
vSphere Migration – The Gotchas
Yesterday I wrote a little about the process I went through when upgrading my production environment. Today, I want to talk about the issues I faced when doing so and what I learned during the project. During the first part of the project, I moved virtual machines from a Distributed Switch to a Standard Switch.… Read More
vSphere Migration – What I Did (Or Oh No… What Did I Do!?)
A quick post about my recent vSphere Upgrade! Earlier this month, I began working on a migration project to move production systems from vSphere 5.5 Update 3 to vSphere 6.5. There’s many different reasons I wanted to do so. I’ll be honest, I’m one of the few that actually wanted to get back to the Web Client. At… Read More
Google Chrome Flash Fix for vSphere Web Client
Sometime during the middle of last week, my Google Chrome updated and made it so that I was unable to access vCenter via vSphere Web Client. Currently, my Chrome is Version 62.0.3202.62. During this update, the embedded Adobe Flash Player was updated from 27.0.0.159 to 27.0.0.170. The result was less than stellar: Image stolen from @lamw‘s… Read More
vRealize Automation 7.3: Install, Configure, Manage (BETA) Review
Here’s the scenario: I’ve recently been introduced to vRealize Automation at work. We’re entering the tail end of the roll-out and I’ve only just begun to understand exactly how to interact with it. I understand why an organization might want to use the product, but I’ve just never been at a place in my career… Read More