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VCSA 7.0 Backups with SMB

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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 <<vcenter name/ip>>: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 […]

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VCSA 7.0 – Forgotten root password

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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 […]

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VMworld 2020 Back Pack!

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Nice email to find out I’ve won a Limited Edition backpack, nice one VMware

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2V0-21.20 Study Guide!

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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 […]

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Professional VMware vSphere 7.x (2V0-21.20) – PASSED!

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Today I sat the VCP – DCV 2020 (based on vSphere 7) exam, and happy to say I passed!!… To that end, I will be creating an unofficial study guide, with links & demos of some of the requirements and objectives taken from the blueprint. This will be a work in progress but I am […]

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EMC VM SAN Migration Hiccup…

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This weekend I have been involved in a EMC VMAX to Unity SAN migration for our shared VMware farm, most cases the VM’s went across using Storage vMotion with no issues. But I’m at the business end of the migration and we have a few issues towards the end. The common theme was the VM’s […]

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VCAP-DTM (Design) Study Guide – Coming Soon!

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I’m currently embarking on a journey to become a VCAP/VCIX in Horizon. My plan Is to give you hints/tips if you are studying for the VCAP-DTM (Design) exam. I think we all agree 2020, has been the year of VDI. At the current time the deploy portion of the VCIX is based on Horizon 6, […]

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NSX-T Series – Adding Compute Manager

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After the installation of NSX-T you must register a compute manage (ie a vCenter) Enter the details above, my example is my homelab VC UK-NCL-VMC-01 In my case I don’t have SSL certs, so click ADD. Once added, within Host Transport Nodes, all my ESXi servers are listed.

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VMworld 2020!

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I had the pleasure of attending my first VMworld last year in Barcelona, I had been wanting to attend for years but for various reasons never got round to it.. I was already looking forward to the next one, days after the this ended.. given the coronavirus pandemic going on, most if not all conferences […]

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Exams! – Back in the game…

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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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  • VMware Horizon 2111 Upgrade December 23, 2021
    Decided to uplift the lab environment from Horizon 2106 (8.3) upto Horizon 2111 (8.4) Before beginning this, ensure servers are backed up, or snapshots taken in case of issues. Make sure you read: – https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Horizon/8%202111/rn/vmware-horizon-8-2111-release-notes/index.html prior to any upgrades.   Click Next >   Click on I accept the terms in the license agreement   […]
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  • VMworld 2021! November 23, 2021
    What a great VMworld we had again this year, also a load of new swag which I won for attending!! The post VMworld 2021! first appeared on Michael Sweeney Blog.
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  • Setting up a Horizon Event Database with MSSQL August 23, 2021
    Pre-Req’s for SQL. As Horizon Event DB only supports SQL Authentication Mode, ensure your SQL server supports this. This can be found in your SQL server properties from SQL Management Studio. Create a SQL User within Security->Logins-> New User Create an empty database Databases -> New Database Fill in relevant details […] The post Setting […]
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  • vRealize Operations 8.5 August 4, 2021
    Finally got to deploy vROps 8.5 (Blog post to follow about 8.4 to 8.5 upgrade to follow). In the meantime check out the release notes:- https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Operations-Manager/8.5/rn/vRealize-Operations-Manager-85.html   The post vRealize Operations 8.5 first appeared on Michael Sweeney Blog.
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  • 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 […]
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  • 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 […]
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  • 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 […]
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  • 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, […]
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  • 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 Sweeney Blog.
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  • 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 Sweeney Blog.
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