Daniel Micanek virtual Blog – Like normal Dan, but virtual.
Take control of your ESXi networking with a simple command-line trick! 🚀 Easily rename VMNICs to keep your setup clean and organized. Just list the current aliases, update the VMNIC name, and reboot—it’s that easy!
Several weeks back I had shared a solution in which you can install a hardware mock VIB for Nested ESXi when using vSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA) and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) to work around the vSAN ESA certified disks pre-check validations. While the majority of my testing uses […]
This plugin elevates GPU metrics to the cluster level in vSphere, which is compatible with vSphere 7 and 8. And it only supports NVIDIA GPUs at the time. We can collect the GPU utilization monitoring, temperature tracking and capacity planning. Download the Plugin […]
In IT, you never know when you need to quickly spin up a web server for hosting files … One of my favorite and super easy way to do this is by leveraging Python’s SimpleHTTPServer which can immediately serve files within a directory with this 1-liner: python -m SimpleHTTPServer 9000. This […]
Whether you are configuring vSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA) directly from vCenter Server or from VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), the underlying ESXi hardware is automatically validated against the vSAN ESA Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) to ensure that you are using supported vSAN […]
Applications for the 2025 vExpert program are now open, with the application deadline newly extended to January 24th, 2025. The vExpert awards are expected to be announced in mid to late February. In this blog post, I will dive into the value of being a vExpert, what it takes to earn the award […]
While upgrading vRealize to Aria Automation I ran into some blocking issues, I share in this article the KB and commands that helped me solve them and complete the upgrade.
And now comes the best part 🙂 As you have seen, the installation with Easy Installer is not complicated, the upgrade requires more attention.
Check out this cool (and downloadable) VMware Cloud Foundation Private Cloud Platform poster!
Using Log Assist in Skyline Health Diagnostics
Skyline Health Diagnostics makes extracting and uploading Support Log Bundles to your Support Request case a one step process with “Log Assist”. Formerly in Skyline, this feature has now migrated to the brilliant Skyline Health Diagnostics Appliance.
