I generated a problem for my self today, that at first was not very obvious and a bit strange in behavior. I thought I would write this out in a blog article if others making the same mistake! I was using a third-party imaging tool – Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) to deploy the guest operating […]
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Upgrading Pernixdata FVP to 3.1 – my recommended procedure
By Heino Skov in PernixData No Comments Tags: PernixData
I had the pleasure of upgrading three PernixData installations today from 2.5.0.8 release to 3.1. Before I started I wanted to do a backup, however according to the upgrade guide, all accelerated VMs must be using Write-Through mode during the upgrade process. So before creating a backup, I went ahead and documented VMs current FVP […]
Impressive speaker line-up at the Nordic VMUG User Conference
By Heino Skov in VMware No Comments Tags: Automation, VMUG, vRO
For all my Nordic friends the Nordic VMUG UserCon will be held in 3 weeks in Copenhagen. And as the previous years, the speaker line-up is impressive. Look at this speaker list: Paul Strong, Chief Technology Officer @ VMware Duncan Epping, Chief Technologist @ VMware Paudie O’Riordan, Staff Product Integration Liaison @ VMware Cormac […]
Vote for your preferred community sessions for VMworld
By Heino Skov in VMware No Comments
VMware has just opened up for the yearly voting period, where you can vote for your preferred community sessions. Each year a percentage of these submitted sessions will be selected to be schedule in the VMworld session catalog. There is a lot of great sessions this year and I have finished voting for the sessions I […]
Collect log files in a distributed vRealize Automation environment
By Heino Skov in vRealize Automation No Comments Tags: vCAC, vRA
I was having a support issue the other day, where I needed to collect log files from a vRealize Automation environment. I have previously used the vCloud Automation Center Support bundle tool, which helps gather and zip all log files from the IAAS components. That tool worked pretty nicely when all components was installed on […]
Selected as PernixPro 2015!
By Heino Skov in PernixData 1 Comment
Thursday 5th of February I was awarded the VMware vExpert title for the second time. Now I’m happy and honoured to announce that Mr. Frank Denneman from PernixData selected me as PernixPro 2015 member. I’m happy to be apart of a great group of likeminded virtualization enthusiasts that have seen the great benefits of PernixData […]
PEX, vExpert Award and VCP6-Cloud Certification
By Heino Skov in VMware No Comments
This week I have attended my 3rd VMware Partner Exchange (PEX) conference in San Francisco. I thought I wanted to give you a little insight in what I used my time on during a conference. At PEX it is a great opportunity to meet virtualization peers to talk about the technologies I use daily. This […]
Need to learn basics for programming? – Join me at CS50 at EDX (Harvard University)
By Heino Skov in Programming No Comments Tags: CS50
One of my big challenges is that my programming skills are zero to none. I want to change that. I have used some time on codecademy learning JavaScript and udacity.com learning Python. Both of which is pretty good courses learning that specific programming language. Those courses are giving good instructions into their respective programming languages. […]
Is your vCAC 6.0 about to have 1-year anniversary – then you may want to read this!
By Heino Skov in vRealize Automation 1 Comment Tags: vRA
I ran into a rather unpleasant problem today where we had a service window to do a vCAC 6.0.1.1 upgrade first to 6.1 and then to 6.2. We did an upgrade just before Christmas in the test environment, which also had some challenges along the way. You can read more about this here. So in […]
2014 and a look into 2015…
By Heino Skov in VMware No Comments Tags: Automation, vCAC, vRA
Personally 2014 has been an exiting year for me. I have used a lot of my time, gaining new skills and using those skills helping customers implementing solutions. Let me dig a little deeper explaining this and sorry in advance for a rather long article. Gaining new skills A little over a year ago, I […]