by vMan | Nov 6, 2020 | Lab, Random
Quick little post around expanding storage on my SuperMicro sys-5028d-tn4t / device compatibility… I found a reasonably prices 2TB expansion for the homelab… While I know it’s not the best device / solution in terms of performance it is value for...
by vMan | Oct 20, 2020 | Random, vCenter
Avert your eyes people, no fix for this one in the post… (yet) I just wanted to inform the community about a little bug / error with the syslog service on vSphere / ESXi 7 which I stumbled on. I started a little thread over at the VMware community forums,...
by vMan | Oct 18, 2020 | Random
With this next post I would like to share my first experiment with Logstash and Docker, while nothing here is rocket science they were both relatively new to me and so I thought to write a little post about it. The the intent / requirement here was to split the logs...
by vMan | Oct 18, 2020 | vRops
Quick and dirty post! Yep the shady automation still works on 8.2 🙂 Original thread here explaining how to configure it, vMan
by vMan | Oct 14, 2020 | Lab, vSAN
My plan here is not to reinvent the wheel, William Lam has provided lot’s of detail on what’s needed / how to, including a new post on getting Pi OS running! + you will also find the resources you need over at the Flings page. See below some photos, my...
by vMan | Oct 12, 2020 | Lab, NSX
So you have read the title of this post and are are thinking to yourself, WTF? why would anyone do this?!?!? or if you are an unconventional human, a tight ass and enjoy making eyes role at GSS then read on. Disclaimer: This is on a whole other level of LOL,...
by vMan | Jun 19, 2020 | vRops
Update: vRops 8.2 still works! So this next post is an update to my original post around enabling automation for the “deleted snapshot” action in vRops 7.5… but to be honest it’s universal and not specific to the “deleted snapshot”...
by vMan | May 16, 2020 | vRops
So this next post covers my custom rest outbound plugin on vRops 8.1+, as VMware made some improvements to alerting in vRops 8.1 the previous version I had needed to be recompiled and slightly improved. So for those of you which had deployed my solution on a previous...
by vMan | May 5, 2020 | vCenter
This is a quick and dirty one… after upgrading my homelab vCenter to 6.7 I noticed that vCenter stopped sending logs to vRLI… When I logged into the VAMI and headed over to syslog section the error below was occurring when I tried to modify / test the...
by vMan | Mar 30, 2020 | Lab, NSX, Random, VMware
So this post is a little hmmm… unorthodox you can say… but hey in time of #Covid19 you gotta do what you gotta do to #stayathome…. So finding new ways to stay entertained, learning something new and keeping the kids busy was a win win for everyone!...
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