Recently I got a new Dell XPS 13 – 9365 and I truly love the machine. The display is very crisp at 3200 pixels wide, the tough screen is awesome and it is a very light machine. There was just one thing, one very annoying thing…. Every time I get up from my desk to […]
vCenter: How was that account locked out?
Last week my user account was constantly locked out after 4hrs. I had just changed my password and I immediately guessed there most be some service somewhere for which I had used my account, but where. First I searched through the Active Directory and did indeed find the account lock events, but they only told […]
Datacenter Migration with VEEAM Backup & Replication and PowerShell
For new customers we often need to migrate their virtual machines from their datacenter into our datacenter. We use VEEAM Backup & Replication for this because it offers us the ability to pre-sync the VMs a few days before the migration and on the day of the migration it self, the last data sync is […]
vCenter appliance database issue
Recently I had an issue in my homelab environment. Because of some power outages, my vCenter Appliance hadn’t been shutdown correctly and now vCenter didn’t start correctly anymore. After some searching I found that the database could not be loaded. In the VMware KBs I couldn’t find anything that fixes the start up of the […]
VIB requires VSAN 6.0.0-2.34 but the requirement cannot be satisfied within the ImageProfile
Today I tried to upgrade my ESXi hosts to ESXi 6.0 Update 2. Since it is just a home lab booted from USB and I don’t use update manager, the easiest way for me is to update using the downloaded ZIP bundle. In my SSH session I ran: esxcli software vib update –depot=/vmfs/volumes/089a9186-25ef0236/iso/update-from-esxi6.0-6.0_update02.zip But I […]