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Its been a long while since I have sat an exam (Last one was Feb 2020, before lockdown). But I have finally scheduled some (remote) exams. Had a lot of project work and not found a lot of time to study, but a project where we are utilizing NSX-T has given me the kick to […]

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Stumbled across this whilst researching some port requirements for vRA. Excellent utility to run to find out what ports you need opening up between solutions:- https://ports.vmware.com/

Installing Horizon Agent on Windows 10 March 5, 2021
During this series I have created a Windows 10 Virtual Machine, installed a few applications that will be used in my general use VM Farm Now we are going to install the agent. Here is the 2012 (8.1) agent. Click Next Accept terms and click Next IPv4 for my environment click Next […]
Michael
Upgrading ESXi 6.7 to 7.0 using SSH/ ESXCLI February 6, 2021
Had some downtime to the nested lab, as adding more RAM, so thought perfect time to upgrade my baremetal “master” ESXi host. Run up a putty window and type the following esxcli software sources profile list -d https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml | grep ESXi-7.0.1 My plan is to move to ESXi 7.0 U1D. So run this command. esxcli […]
Michael
VSAN HCL Update (Offline) February 2, 2021
Had a job to update the HCL, as our vCenter doesn’t have internet access we had to do an offline update. Go onto a machine that has access and download the JSON file from below. https://partnerweb.vmware.com/service/vsan/all.json (Right click, Save as, on the above link) Click on Update From File After a minute […]
Michael
Installing Horizon 8.1 Connection Server on Windows 2019. January 14, 2021
This is the first part in a series of blog posts to install Horizon 2012 (Aka 8.1) – These are basic install steps on how to get up and running with Horizon 2012. I really like the Horizon product and what it brings, EUC has always been important but more so in the last year, […]
Michael
VMware vSphere 7.0 U1 C Released January 11, 2021
Just before Xmas this update landed https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/rn/vsphere-vcenter-server-70u1c-release-notes.html Looking forward to testing out this new feature that’s appeared after the upgrade! Just need to deploy another vCenter! The post VMware vSphere 7.0 U1 C Released first appeared on .
Michael
SRM 8.3.1.1 Released January 11, 2021
SRM 8.3.1.1 was released in December. https://docs.vmware.com/en/Site-Recovery-Manager/8.3/rn/srm-releasenotes-8-3-1-1.html Planning a walk through of an upgrade from 8.2 to 8.3.1.1 (With Pure Storage). Look out for this walkthrough coming soon ! The post SRM 8.3.1.1 Released first appeared on .
Michael
VCSA 7.0 Backups with SMB November 23, 2020
Today I was asked to set some of backups of vCenter. My pre-reqs (Windows Fileserver) Network Path (mine being \\MS1-FS1\vcenterbackup) Service Account of vcenterbackup Open up the VAMI of your vCenter :5480 Log in as root Make sure your Username doesn’t include your domain (In my case it was ms1/vcenterbackup) as error is listed […] […]
Michael
VCSA 7.0 – Forgotten root password October 30, 2020
Resetting Root Password Reboot your vCenter VM Press “E” on bootup. Enter rw /bin/bash at the end of the 2nd line as below. Press F10 to boot into rescue shell. At the prompt, type in Mount -o remount,rw / passwd Type in your new password Finally type in umount / reboot -f Now I can […]
Michael
VMworld 2020 Back Pack! October 23, 2020
Nice email to find out I’ve won a Limited Edition backpack, nice one VMware The post VMworld 2020 Back Pack! first appeared on .
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2V0-21.20 Study Guide! August 12, 2020
Hi All, the plan is to create a study guide for all the objectives on the “Version 7” of the exam…. To start with please check out the blueprint of the exam. I anticipate this will take me a few months to put together, as I have a 3 year old and a day job […]
Michael

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