vRops – Notifications – XML Templates

by | May 9, 2017 | vRops

So this next post is about creating a custom email notification template with a body that contains an XML structure!!! Why would any one want to do this you may ask? I am working on auto generating tickets in our incident management system, unfortunately due to...

vrops – Export – Tool

by | May 1, 2017 | vRops

Check out this vmware blog post from Pontus Rydin, looks like he has put a tool together similar to my stats on steroids script which extracts the data out of vRops so you can visualise it easier in something like Tableau or Excel Pivot!! I have not tried it...

Home Lab Addition

by | Apr 27, 2017 | Lab

I recently purchased a new lab server to continue tinkering / enhancing my knowledge of VMware products, this was due to my other lab servers being in transit from Australia which would take 3-4 months!! so i couldn’t be without for such a long time....

vRops Architecture / Troubleshooting by VMware Education

by | Mar 25, 2017 | vRops

Been a bit slow on the posing, I had to buy a new lab server SuperMicro sys-5028d-tn4t (I will post about it at a later date…) this is due to my other 3 i7 ESX hosts being in transit from Australia as I had to move back to Switzerland for...

I made vExpert 2017 !!!

by | Feb 9, 2017 | Random

So I had some great news on the 8th of February arrive in my email, I am now recognised as a vExpert by VMware 🙂 For those who want to know more please visit VMware vExper 2017 Announcement vMan  

Random Update #1

by | Jan 13, 2017 | Random

So I havent been very active in the last few weeks… this is due to some personal and work stuff which poped up + I am studing for the VCP6-CMA. But hopefully I will be back in February with some cool stuff… vMab

My Home Lab

by | Dec 18, 2016 | Lab

I am sharing the details of my vSphere 6 home lab for those of you interested in building a cheap but reasonable white box lab / setup. I have 3 hosts running a combination of vSAN and NFS (Synology) For the Network I am running 2 x CISCO Small business 300...