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There have been some questions within and outside the VMware vExpert community about vExpert Pro. It sounds like it is a higher level of vExpert, but it is not. vExpert Pro, in short, is a program in which professionals assist those trying to become vExperts, those already within the community, and the vExpert program itself. …

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In the last two vSphere Upgrade Saga posts, I completed the pre-ESXi upgrades and then the ESXi upgrades. Now it is time for the last bit of the upgrade to happen: specifically, VMware Tools, virtual hardware, and VSAN disk format. There are some new features within the HTML 5 client for vSphere 6.7 that make this …

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My upgrade from ESXi 6.5 to 6.7 did not go as cleanly as I would have liked, for several reasons. However, so far I have found a solution to everything. Here is a recap of my approach.

It was time. I finally found the time to upgrade my environment to vSphere 6.7U1 from vSphere 6.5U1. The vSphere Upgrade Saga continues. No, I did not go to 6.5U2 or even vSphere 6.7, as I was waiting for the tool to allow me to converge my external PSC into an embedded PSC. Most things …

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After several weeks of coding and testing, I have finally upgraded the AAC-base installers to support not just the official Microsoft PowerShell repos and VMware PowerCLI 10, but also Debian-based Linux releases. These are significant updates. But what are the AAC-base installers?

I often have to test code and tools on versions of vSphere and other hypervisors that I do not have deployed on physical hardware. To do so, I use a virtual-in-virtual (VinV) approach. However, it is still not just laying down a hypervisor. There is quite a bit of planning that goes into making a …

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