Migration VM between environments and storage traps.
Problem definition: VM migration between environments can have various subtle consequences. One of them is the behavior of the disk when migrating, for example, using HCX, from a traditional environment based on SAN storage to a vSAN environment. Traditional SAN environments usually (though not always) utilize thick-provisioned disks. Some arrays, …
VMware Converter 6.4
If you think VMware Converter is an outdated product that should no longer be considered, think again. VMware Converter may not be updated every month, but its latest version, 6.4, is evidence that VMware hasn’t forgotten about the product—or at least, recognizes its utility. As a reminder, VMware Converter is …
NSX-t do not work as expected with tags
Hi everyone, today’s post is about solving an issue that took me quite a lot of time. The fix turned out to be easy, but it wasn’t obvious, and I still need to find the root cause. I was working with pfSense (Netgate) in a VMC (AWS) environment. pfSense is …
LXC container for lab environment.
Power of the containers (mainly based on docker) has been proved many, many times. But what in the scenario you have very, very limited resources in your virtual lab and lets say, small debian installation with very few GB of RAM and 1 CPU. With LXC you can use this …
Legacy VM support in VMware world.
One of the fantastic legacies and possibilities of using the VMware environment is a huge number of operating systems which are supported, or at least working well on top of ESXi. Usually all types of OS you can imagine works so well that you don’t think it can be different. …
Powershell, HCX – create mobility group based on VM list
However HCX is a fantastic migration tool, but when it comes to migrate lots of VM at once, it is important properly plan migration and in addition to create sufficient automation to fit in the migration (downtime) window. One of the step that need to be created during preparation is …
zsh and az (azure) command autocomplete
“az” autocomplete command from azure-cli package do not work by default. By autocomplete I understand the functionality where command can populate additional options by pressing <TAB> button twice. In zsh 5.8.1 (macOS ver. 12.6.1) to make it work, create the following file in your home directory: “.zshrc” with the content: …
PowerCLI code to gather IP and portGroup for VM
It is not an easy task to collect those two information together as it can be read from two different objects. It is always an issue (for me) to merge two value from two different object as VM can have several network cards and at the same time be connected …
Remove host from AVS cluster
As adding new host to VMware AVS cluster, removing is usually fairly simply. AVS Private Cloud -> Clusers, select 3 dots and edit. Next to the each host you can find small trash icon. By selecting that one you can remove host from the cluster and save the status with …
gmail, filter forwarded email
If you need to have for some reason more than one gmail account (ie. working for more companies) but you are checking just one mailbox regularly then below is the solution that might work for you as it did for me. In that way, all incoming messages to your source …