Piotr Tarnawski

How to re-IP Photon OS from command line

The most reliable way to change IP address for the Photon OS appliance is the command line. Although VAMI gives one option to change IP,…

NSX-T

How to set up environment variable for Terraform on Windows for NSX-T

We are using GitHub as our repository for NSX-T and Terraform to apply changes in our vSphere environment. After change is review and merged to…

vCenter

VMware vCenter Server 7.0 Update 3a

It has been not even a month since VMware released vSphere 7 Update 3, and not everyone including me implemented that update, yet today (23/10/2021)…

vCenter

How I lost and recovered my vCenter server

My network team is doing tech refresh and they decided that along with hardware change, they want to change IP range. Hence I was tasked…

Aria

vRealize Operations 8.6 has been released!

I just received security announcement from VMware about LOW severity VMSA-2021-0021 – VMware vRealize Operations Manager update addresses SSRF Vulnerability (CVE-2021-22033). Checking on solution, I…

Aria

vRealize Operations 8.6 – What’s New?

During VMworld2021 VMware announced vRealize Operations 8.6 which will provide a lot of new features and capabilities. We can expect enhanced integration between vRealize Operations…

vCenter

How to remove stale (orphaned) snapshots in the datastore on which the virtual machine resides

One of my servers went into a hung state. We tried to reboot it but the reboot filed and the task eventually timeout. The same…

vCenter

VMware vCenter Server 7.0 Update 3 released!

I am happy to announce that on October 5th VMware released Update 3.You can read and watch everything you need to know about this update…

vSphere

Using Virtual Reality with VMware

Today I attended a very interesting session at VMworld2021 about using Virtual Reality to administrate vSphere. The possibilities are endless. From having look at the…

vSphere