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4 04, 2025

Cleura Cloud: A European Cloud Alternative

By | 2025-04-04T17:23:13+02:00 April 4th, 2025|Cibersecurity, Olher|0 Comments

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 [...]

31 03, 2025

How to Upgrade from CentOS 7 to CentOS Stream 9 (The Complete Guide)

By | 2025-03-31T17:50:55+02:00 March 31st, 2025|RedHat - Linux|0 Comments

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 [...]

30 03, 2025

How to reset the root password on VMware Cloud Director on v10.6

By | 2025-03-30T17:25:26+02:00 March 30th, 2025|vCloud Director, VMware Posts|0 Comments

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 [...]

29 03, 2025

How to migrate ESXi installation from an SD Card to a Local Disk

By | 2025-03-29T00:01:21+01:00 March 29th, 2025|VMware Posts, vSphere|0 Comments

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 [...]

24 03, 2025

VMware Cloud Director 10.6.1 – What’s New and How to Upgrade

By | 2025-03-24T23:27:00+01:00 March 24th, 2025|vCloud Director, VMware Posts|0 Comments

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 [...]

5 03, 2025

Celebrating 10 Years as a VMware vExpert: How Community, Blogs, and Saying “Yes” Changed My Career

By | 2025-03-05T00:47:17+01:00 March 5th, 2025|VMware Posts|0 Comments

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 [...]

3 03, 2025

Troubleshooting NSX Manager Cluster Issues: Corfu, Connectivity, and Service Failures

By | 2025-03-24T16:06:10+01:00 March 3rd, 2025|NSX, VMware Posts|0 Comments

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 [...]

3 03, 2025

Object First Ootbi: The Ultimate On-Premises Backup Storage Appliance for Veeam

By | 2025-03-03T01:22:44+01:00 March 3rd, 2025|Backups Posts, Storage, Veeam|0 Comments

Now that I’m back to blogging, I’m kicking off a series of posts about Object First Storage. In this first post, "Object First Ootbi: The Ultimate On-Premises Backup Storage Appliance for Veeam," we’ll dive into what Object First (Ootbi) is, its key features, and how it works. In the next post, already written but still [...]

26 02, 2025

VMware Cloud Director Failure After Storage Crash – Troubleshooting and Fix

By | 2025-02-26T15:59:35+01:00 February 26th, 2025|vCloud Director, VMware Posts|0 Comments

Today, I had a storage issue, and all my VMs crashed. One of those VMs was my VMware Cloud Director (vCD). After resolving the storage problem and rebooting the VM, I noticed that vCD did not start properly. Checking the services, I found that some failed with errors, preventing vCD from functioning. In this VMware Cloud [...]

17 02, 2025

Veeam Backup & Replication v12.3: What’s New and Why It Matters

By | 2025-02-17T01:32:37+01:00 February 17th, 2025|Backups Posts, Veeam|0 Comments

Today, I'm returning to my blog and getting back into writing. Before diving into this new post, I want to share a bit about my absence. The year 2024 was quite a ride for me. I achieved a major life goal by publishing my book on vSphere, and with the Broadcom vs VMware issues, it [...]