Stephan McTighe

Virtualisation and General Technology Thoughts

Changing the vSAN Storage Policy for a VM using PowerCLI

I recently had a query regarding changing the storage policy on a significant number of virtual machines using PowerCLI. Here is a quick script that can be leveraged to do this: In …

Posted by Stephan McTighe on 11 Sep 2023

Authentication failed for User VCFUI during VCF upgrade

During a recent VCF upgrade from version 4.5 to 4.5.1, I was faced with the following error: 'Session middleware wrapper failed to initial and all retry attempts. Cannot continue. …

Posted by Stephan McTighe on 3 Aug 2023

Upgrading vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager to Aria Suite Lifecycle

In April 2023, VMware vRealize Suite became VMware Aria. As part of this all the products moved to the new name and had new capabilities included. This includes, vRealize Suite …

Posted by Stephan McTighe on 23 May 2023

VCF - I've Deployed it, What's Next? - London VMUG 2023

I was recently lucky enough to have the opportunity to present a session at the London VMUG #LonVMUG with friend and colleague, James T. The session was based on bringing awareness …

Posted by Stephan McTighe on 9 May 2023

vSAN Storage Policy Summary using PowerCLI

I recently came across a need to review the Storage Policies in use within a vCenter environment and how many objects or virtual machines where using each policy. I saw this as an …

Posted by Stephan McTighe on 26 Feb 2023

Deploying vSphere Templates with Packer &amp Azure DevOps

Ever since starting out on my learning journey with Packer and writing my ‘Getting Started’ blog series, I have not stopped learning and developing my templates. I have …

Posted by Stephan McTighe on 13 Dec 2022

NSX-T Edge Node 3.2 Upgrade Issue - Hugepage Support

I recently did the first NSX upgrade in my Homelab! My Lab is running older hardware, HPE DL380 Gen8’s to be exact and this lead to an upgrade issue when attempting to …

Posted by Stephan McTighe on 21 Jun 2022

Configuring vSphere 7 Auto Deploy

Whilst continuing to prepare for my VMware Certified Advanced Professional Deploy Exam, I have been configuring vSphere Auto Deploy. As with my blog post on vCenter Profiles, I am …

Posted by Stephan McTighe on 26 Apr 2022

Client SMTP Email Submission & Graph API - Azure

I recently began playing with Azure DevOps Pipelines as a way to automate various aspects of my lab. As part of this I wanted to send email notifications that I could customize the …

Posted by Stephan McTighe on 15 Mar 2022

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