Intro This blog post is an accompaniment to the session “vSphere with Tanzu Kubernetes – Day 2 Operations for the VI Admin” created by myself and Simon Conyard, with special thanks to the VMware LiveFire Team for allowing us access to their lab environments to create the technical demo recordings. You can see the full … Continue reading A guide to vSphere with Tanzu Kubernetes – Day 2 Operations for the VI Admin
In vRealize Operations 6.3, we added the following Guest Metrics, some of which we require VMware Tools 10.3.X or higher to be present for us to pull the data. Guest|Active File Cache Memory (KB) Guest|Context Swap Rate per second Guest|Free Memory (KB) Guest|Huge Page Size (KB) Guest|Needed Memory (KB) Guest|Page In Rate per second Guest|Page … Continue reading vRealize Operations – What is the Guest|Page In/Out Rate Metric?
The issue After patching/upgrading your vCenter 6.7 appliance, the vCenter UI shows the latest build number, but in VAMI you see the older VAMI build number. To troubleshoot upgrade issues, you can look at the following file; /var/log/vmware/software-packages.log In the log, you see the following error; INFO:vmware.vherd.base.software_update:Setting appliance version to 6.7.0.31000 build 13643870 ERROR:vmware.vherd.base.software_update:Got exception … Continue reading vCenter patching failed to update the VAMI build “Got exception while trying to save metadata to a file: Unexpected content in /etc/issue file”
You may have seen my blog post “How to Install and configure vSphere CSI Driver on OpenShift 4.x“. Here I updated the vSphere CSI driver to work the additional security constraints that are baked into OpenShift 4.x. Since then, once of the things that has been on my list to test is file volumes backed … Continue reading Using the vSphere CSI Driver with OpenShift 4.x and VSAN File Services
In this blog post we will cover the following topics; – What is Veeam Backup for Azure – Getting Started – – Architecture – – Deploying from Azure Marketplace – – Logging on for the first time – – Connecting to your Microsoft Azure Subscriptions and Storage – – Accounts – – Configuring a repository … Continue reading Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure – Getting Started: Setting up the Infrastructure