In the last years we had multiple problems with our VMware vCenter Server Appliances, because for example the filesystem for the SEAT database ran full. Without having a look at the appliance management interface, you will have to spend much time for debugging your problems. To prevent these kind of problems, I’ve written some scripts… Read More »
Today I want don’t want to hold back some new stuff from you. It’s time for unboxing a brand new NetApp HCI System. When you hear HCI, you think about Hyper Converged Infrastructure. With HCI you converge compute and storage infrastructure into one single chassis. But the biggest disadvantage is the scalability. You cannot independently… Read More »
In my previous blog posts, I’ve explained how to setup a automatic, consistent Backup of your VMware vCenter Appliance (VCSA): vSphere 6.5 vSphere 6.7 Beginning with vSphere 6.7 U2, there are some new options for your backup: you can now directly backup to a NFS or SMB filesystem. With these two new options, you now… Read More »
For small environments, VMware’s software defined storage ‘vSAN’ is a very nice for solution for a shared storage between multiple hypervisors, which gives you the ability to use enterprise features like HA and DRS. But if your environment is too small, you may got a few problems because vSAN needs some requirements: at least one… Read More »
From time to time I got nerved about the missing trust of my demo VMware vCenter Server. Since I’m using Let’s Encrypt (LE) for years for my blog and other sites, I thought about also using this nice service for my vCenter Server: After playing around a bit with the vSphere 6.7 Certificate Manager, I… Read More »
A few months after our first NetApp StorageGRID Webscale PoC we came back for another PoC. This time: Virtual Appliances on VMware vSphere. A perfect solution for small environments and if you already have a virtual environment. After modifying some scripts, the deployment was really easy and fast: a 5-Node cluster including Gateway- and Admin-Node in… Read More »
First of all: what is StorageGRID Webscale? It is a software-defined object-based storage platform from NetApp. It was born about 2000 formaly known as Bycast StorageGRID – in 2010, NetApp bought this technology and give it its new name. It can be accessed via Amazon S3 or OpenStack Swift protocols. With “NAS Bridge” you could… Read More »
Right after my two weeks long camping tour through Sweden, I noticed a mail from VMware. “You’re in. Welcome to the VMware vExpert Program“. VMware vExpert is a program to recognise the contribution in the VMware community, blogs and social media. In 2018 there are 1741 vExperts from 72 different countries. After my NetApp United… Read More »
While upgrading from VMware ESXi, 6.5.0 to 6.5 Update 2, the update fails with the following error: [root@host:~] esxcli software vib install -d /vmfs/volumes/echt_raid5/update-from-esxi6.5-6.5_update02.zip [InstallationError] Failed updating the bootloader: Execution of command /usr/lib/vmware/bootloader-installer/install-bootloader failed: non-zero code returned return code: 1 output: ERROR: ld.so: object ‘/lib/libMallocArenaFix.so’ from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. Traceback (most recent call last):… Read More »
Getting sick of Microsoft Windows and the ISE, I’ve installed VMware PowerCLI on my Debian Linux today. Everything could be done from your Shell, you do not need to download anything with your browser. Nice stuff – PowerCLI was installed in unter 2 minutes 😉 First you need to add some apt sources and install… Read More »