Hi all, A wonderful week here in Anchorage Alaska visiting customers. I really like enabling people to survive DR events. I really appreciate how much customers like Veeam, it is a real honor and pleasure working with them. I am going to be at VeeamON after all and I look forward to meeting and visiting … Continue reading Newsletter: May 12, 2018
Tag: VUM
VUM time outs – and CLI patching!
Hi there, I am trying to get my lab all shiny and ready for a new technical whitepaper I am going to work on. One thing that has thwarted me is the update of the two hosts in my second cluster. One would hang at 24% and one one hang at 0%. And this was … Continue reading VUM time outs – and CLI patching!
Newsletter: 5 November, 2017
Hello all, I had an interesting week with customers and various VMware R&D meetings, definitely lots of fun and good to be back on the VMware campus - is it ever big and different now. I also spent some time learning about Amazon Web Services and it was pretty interesting - they have a lot … Continue reading Newsletter: 5 November, 2017
Newsletter: November 26, 2016
Hello everyone, I hope that everyone had a great week? Some of you had Thanksgiving, and I hope it went very well. From some of the tweets I saw you have eaten very well indeed. For a number of years in a previous job I was able to have Canadian Thanksgiving at home and an … Continue reading Newsletter: November 26, 2016
Newsletter: October 22, 2016 – vSphere Edition
Hello all, Update: - you can now - 11/15/16 09:12 - find the bits and docs to download. Use Williams article to help find what you need. For those of us with only vExpert ability to download you will find the evals are still old versions. Wait a bit and it should change. === This … Continue reading Newsletter: October 22, 2016 – vSphere Edition
Newsletter: July 23, 2016
Hi all, Very happy to be writing this. It means the week is over and it was a tough week. I am not sure when I will finish this. I have - shortly - a full day of hiking, and Sunday I head to our dev center in St-Petersberg in Russia - which I am … Continue reading Newsletter: July 23, 2016
Newsletter: April 9, 2016
Hello there, I hope that everyone had a great week, and are enjoying their weekend? I am, but I did have a pretty good week and I am looking forward to next week. I should have a new job soon and I am quite excited about that! I was able to get my View 7 … Continue reading Newsletter: April 9, 2016
A very odd error – host configuration changes will not be saved
I upgraded to vSphere 6 a while back, and shortly after that I noticed an odd error. Everything still worked, and I was busy so .... I did nothing. I did an update yesterday using VUM. After it was done I saw that one host, the same one above, that was now compatible with critical … Continue reading A very odd error – host configuration changes will not be saved
Newsletter: January 23, 2016
Hello everyone, A full week at home has been wonderful. We were even able to fit a Wine Dinner in and that was pretty fun. I have been working a lot in the lab on migration related stuff. What a pain. Working with some powerful new software - new to me that is - called … Continue reading Newsletter: January 23, 2016
Newsletter: October 31, 2015
Hello all, I hope this finds everyone good? I had a difficult week due to hardware and software issues that were seeking me out entirely too much! I am at DG HQ and there was something of unusual significance this week. Halloween. Thursday our offices were decorated and a lot of kids visited. I had … Continue reading Newsletter: October 31, 2015
Notes from MWhite 