ITQ Transform ’19 – it was awesome

Yesterday on the 27th of september in Fort Voordorp in Groenekan (Netherlands) ITQ held their Transform event. For those who …

LACP and vSphere (ESXi) hosts: not a very good marriage

I receive a lot of questions from customers if they should implement LACP rather or not, so without further ado: …

PowerCLI: Enable VSAN on existing (stretched) vSphere clusters as autonomously as possible

Introduction During my career I’ve done quite some vSphere and VSAN implementations . The hardest part of implementing VSAN on …

PowerCLI: Restart ESXi hosts in a cluster sequentially

below a script which allows you to restart the hosts in a vSphere cluster sequentially. It prompts you to select …

PowerCli: Creating VMK-if on the vmotion netstack on a DVS (with the correct gateway IP configured)

Good scripts are created out of frustration: And here’s a good example of this statement! I wasn’t able to find …

PowerCLI: retrieve VMhost routes used for stretched VSAN clusters.

When configuring a stretched VSAN cluster, the VSAN VMkernel interface is connected to the “default” netstack and manual routes must …

PowerCli: bulk change ESXi root passwords with vCenter

sometimes you have to change the root password for all ESXi hosts.You can use the PowerCLI Set-VMHostAccount cmdlet. But this …

Some Useful PowerCLI scripts for VVD DIY-deployments

This blog contains some useful PowerCLI script which make the deployment of a VVD (4.3) a lot easier. It’s not …

Me presenting @NLVMUG: talking about modern datacenter security

Are public clouds really that expensive?

Introduction When i’m talking to my customers about IT platforms or “the cloud”, I always hear them say that “the …