Based on my hands-on experience with VMware HCX, I recently spent several weeks researching Azure VMware Solution (AVS) as part of planning for a possible project with a financial services company. The customer has an on-premises VMware environment with 500 VMs across multiple clusters that they want to migrate to AVS, driven by the goal [...]
The VeeamON 2025 in San Diego was another fantastic experience, and this one felt extra special to me personally. As a long-time Veeam Vanguard, this was my fourth (or maybe fifth?) time attending VeeamON, and it never gets old. It is always a pleasure to connect with the incredible Veeam community, catch up with friends, [...]
My journey with the Veeam Vanguard program began around 2015 or 2016, sparked by a blend of curiosity and ambition. Fresh from applying to become a VMware vExpert, I was eager to explore another community initiative. I’d been working with Veeam products since 2007 or 2008, so the Vanguard program felt like a natural next [...]
This is my first blog post about European public cloud services. With all the issues we have seen since the beginning of this year, this is an important subject for organizations operating inside the EU. So I am starting this series on European cloud providers with a deep dive into Cleura. The Need for Change [...]
Even though this isn’t the kind of post I usually write on this blog, I think this is something worth sharing. Since I needed to reuse my old CentOS 7 jump host VM for a new project — installing Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization (a blog series is coming soon) — I had to upgrade it to [...]
In this quick blog post, I’ll go over how to reset the root password on How to reset the root password on VMware Cloud Director on v10.6. There’s been a slight change compared to previous versions, so here’s what’s new. In earlier versions, we used the pam_tally2 command to reset failed login attempts. However, with [...]
Migrating ESXi from an SD Card to a Local Disk: My Experience Recently, I was experiencing some issues with one of my ESXis 8.x that I installed on a 25GB SD card. After troubleshooting, I realized the SD card was failing. I had the choice of repairing it (which I had done a couple of [...]
It’s been a while since I last covered VMware Cloud Director here on the blog, but after spending the last couple of weeks working intensively with vCD and NSX, I decided it was time to revisit it. In this post, VMware Cloud Director 10.6.1 – What’s New and How to Upgrade, we'll explore the key changes [...]
From Reluctance to a Decade-Long Journey This year, I celebrate my 10th anniversary as a VMware vExpert—a milestone I once never imagined reaching. I hesitated to apply for years, convinced my contributions weren’t “enough.” Back then, my world revolved around Experts Exchange, where I spent countless hours answering VMware, Veeam, and Windows Server questions, amassing [...]
For the past two days, I’ve been troubleshooting a frustrating issue with my NSX v4.2 cluster. Both nodes refused to start, showing only error code 101 in the browser with no service details (unknown state). Connectivity between nodes was inconsistent, and the Corfu service failed, making troubleshooting even more challenging. What followed was a deep [...]
