Well, I’ll be lying if I haven’t heard of containers in the past years although I used them barely at my job (solutions engineer) shouldn’t I consider them more every time to replace the applications where my customers have their servers? Like many people that work as sysadmin these days, they are used to work with virtualization, in particular Virtual Machines (VMs), customers still using them (and it will continue) to deploy their applications in an OS which delivers great benefits against the legacy approach of the Baremetal (Mainframe) era....

It’s been more than one month since I published something here but I’ve been changing quite a lot my focus learning and I changed now from CCNA to DevOps things. TL;DR I will be building an automated CI/CD pipeline for my final assignment focusing on tools installed and configured on-premise although there will be cloud services like the front-end. Also, I forgot to mention that last month I started the last semester of my Computer Engineering degree that I started back in 2014 (oh my!...

For some reason, our monitoring alerted that the service “vsphere-ui” from the vCSA it was having some problems randomly. From the user perspective only we noticed some slowness when navigating within the HTML5 client. I took a quick view of the VAMI I saw this message from the VMware vSphere Client service: The server is running low on heap memory (>90% utilized.) So it was time to solve those random alerts about memory utilization....

This is a short post talking about Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) and a problem I found when adding the nodes from your cluster using the «Validate a Configuration» wizard. This wizard is recommended to run after configuring your nodes and before creating the cluster in order to spot any misconfigurations. So now, let’s go into the problem. The issue In the wizard when trying to add (in my example) the second node shows an error:...

In this blog post, we will see how to upgrade vRealize Operations (vROps) from version 6.7.0 to 8.0.1. The whole process takes about 30 minutes. Bear in mind that, you will need new license keys after updating to the later version (after 8.0 version). Note: You will see a version mismatch in some screenshots. Download the required files Download the Upgrade Assessment Tool available at VMware Downloads. And also, proceed to download the Virtual appliance upgrade PAK file, that will be used later for the real upgrade:...

Prologue With the release of vSphere 7 at the beginning of this month, I decided to make a post about how to install vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) which is quite simple. Which are the new features? Check this post from my friend Graham Barker to find out! Let’s move on! Proceed to download the «VMware vCenter Server 7.0.0» ISO file from my.vmware.com Mount the ISO file and execute the installer.exe file : Prerequisite: We need DNS if we want to deploy vCenter with an FQDN but if you don’t have it or you can’t for any reason, you can trick the installer and put the IP address as the hostname and it will work....

A few days ago VMware announced that VMworld will be online due to the current situation with COVID-19. Review the VMworld FAQs. Therefore, as there will be only one big online event during the week of September 28, 2020. So, why not attend a free mini-VMworld in less than a month? That’s vForum Online! vForum Online is a LIVE virtual event where you can access it directly from any device. Obviously there’s no travel required, so why not engage with more people and learn about new trends, features, and technologies?...

Just a quick post about the vExpert sub-programs that have been announced recently. In my case, yesterday I received this message: This means that I’ve been selected to be a vExpert PRO! Becoming a representative of your country/region and willingness to help others become aware of the vExpert program are the main functions of a vExpert PRO. So, if you want to become a vExpert, start now and you can probably become one!...