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My home lab has been running with primary storage provided via an all-flash implementation of VMware vSAN for almost 4 years now. The underlying drives are consumer-grade Samsung 850 EVO 120gb (cache) and 500gb (capacity) SSD drives. Six months ago, Continue reading Replacing a failed vSAN cache drive
In conjunction with my previous post about IP conflicts, I thought I should share a script I created. When you are talking about the networking subnet that your VM’s live on, or the management subnet of your hosts, you can Continue reading Validating free IP’s on a non-routable subnet
VMUG UserCons are a free, one-day conference on topics related to VMware, its partner ecosystem and career enhancement. The day is organised and run by local VMware User Groups all around the world. The Melbourne VMUG UserCon 2019 was on Continue reading Melbourne VMUG UserCon 2019
After a recent power outage that lasted longer than my UPS runtime, I found that one of my ESXi hosts wasn’t online. A quick look at the console screen showed that ESXi had attempted to boot and failed with Fatal Continue reading Fatal error: 33 (Inconsistent data)
A client of mine asked for assistance in identifying virtual appliances in their environment, in order to tag them for future work they had planned. As they had many thousands of VM’s, it would have been an arduous task to Continue reading Taking screenshots of VM consoles