Quick blog post, there has been known issue in VMware Cloud Foundation 3.5, 3.7 & 3.8 that reports your SDDC manager license key as invalid as the below screenshot shows. This has been listed in the “known issues” section of the release notes for each version, but there is no KB article for this. Validation … Continue reading VMware Cloud Foundation – SDDC Manager License key is not valid
In this blog post, I am going to break down a PowerShell code I have created (with help from some colleagues). The functions of this PowerShell code are; Present a GUI form to the end user Connect to a vCenter Select the virtual machine to be cloned Select the datastore the new VM is to … Continue reading PowerCLI with a GUI – Clone a machine, add DHCP Reservations, alter CPUID
A customer of mine queried the details of a metric available in vROPs “IsGreenForPlacement” You can find this by selecting a cluster in vROPs, go to All Metrics, and just search placement. And here is a screenshot of the Metric in a sparkline. The customer uses this metric to give a signal (Green/Red Button on … Continue reading vROPs – What is the “IsGreenForPlacement” Metric + Dashboard
I had an interesting question from a customer recently; Can we track the adoption/upgrades of VMware tools to the latest version in a vROPs dashboard At first, I thought sure this is easy. But then looking at the various different default options, nothing would give me a graph which shows the increasing uptake or upgrades … Continue reading Using vROPs to track adoption – Such as VMware Tools upgrades
Something completely different; I was taking to my customer about the most amazing Mexican chicken I make for Tacos. So I shared with him the recipe, thought I’d share it with you lot as well! This is my modified version that I think is better than the original recipe which can be found at the … Continue reading Recipe: Grilled Mexican Chicken perfect for Tacos