IT Should Just Work

Top vBlog 2016 Awards

May 3, 2016 · 1 min read · blogs vmware ·

Voting is now open for the Top vBlog 2016 Awards, and I am pleased to say that this blog- IT Should Just Work - is in the running for the first time.
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CloudCred- Gamification of VMware Learning

Apr 28, 2016 · 2 min read · vmware ·

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CloudCred- Gamification of VMware Learning

Recently I’ve been spending some time looking at CloudCredibility, a VMware website which provides some direction for learning about their ecosystem and technology.
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Error Fetching Datastores when installing VCSA

Apr 25, 2016 · 1 min read · vcenter vmware ·

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Symptoms When installing VCSA onto an existing vCenter environment (as a VM, not as an in-place upgrade of that environment), on Step-9 “Select Datastore” the installer shows the message “Error Fetching Datastores” and no datastores are listed so installation cannot continue. Workaround Go back …

London VMUG April 2016 (Part 2)

Apr 18, 2016 · 3 min read · vmug veeam vrealize vmware pernixdata nimble-storage vbeers 10zig #lonvmug ·

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Last week was the second London VMware User Group of 2016- and I came away with so many notes I couldn’t justify just squeezing them all into one post. So, check out Part 1 here if you haven’t already and what to know what happened in the morning.
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London VMUG April 2016 (Part 1)

Apr 15, 2016 · 4 min read · vmug veeam vrealize vmware pernixdata nimble-storage #lonvmug ·

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Thursday saw another trip to TechUK for the second London VMware Users Group of the year. It was, yet again, a very educational and entertaining community driven event with sessions covering a whole range of topics from enterprise scale implementations of hardware and software right down to the nitty-gritty of running …
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Backup Clock

Apr 11, 2016 · 1 min read ·

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In a tangent from my regular IT activities, I’ve made a clock for the IT office using an old tape reel, a floppy disk, and an analogue clock kit from Amazon. It’s turned out quite well and looks like this. Here’s a (very) quick guide on how to make one of your own.
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ESXi Host Web Client

Mar 26, 2016 · 2 min read · vmware esxi xbox ·

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A few days ago I tweeted about managing my ESXi HomeLab from the Xbox. Whilst this is a bit of a novelty (I’m holding out for the Minecraft ESXi plugin fling), it highlights the management possibilities that the new HTML-based (rather than Flash or Windows based) client creates. In addition to working via the Edge …

Virtual Machine Backups with Veeam

Mar 21, 2016 · 4 min read · vmware veeam ·

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So, I’ve got my Home Lab on a NUC setup and running the VMware ESXi 6 Hypervisor. Before I get too carried away “experimenting” I want to be a good sysadmin and ensure that I can backup (and restore) my Virtual Machines.
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Home Lab Upgrade to 6.0u2

Mar 18, 2016 · 1 min read · vmware esxi powercli ·

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VMware have released vSphere 6.0 Update 2 - this brings with it many new features, but amongst the most exciting for my home lab was the host-based web client. I no longer need to rely on the functionality of the traditional Windows application to manage my virtual environment. Here’s how I installed it:
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Quote of the Day - 18 March 2016

Mar 18, 2016 · 1 min read ·

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“If there isn’t a spec, a program can’t be wrong - it can only be surprising.” Overheard/ Jeffrey Snover March 2016