Cloning virtual machines in vSphere series – Part 2: Full clone

Continuing with the cloning virtual machines in vSphere series, today I am going to write about the full clone, how it works and some useful information about it. So, let’s talk about clones… but just full clones. How does it work? As you probably know a full clone is an exact copy of a source VM, meaning that, everything from the parent VM is copied (VM settings, disks, files, etc.)....

March 6, 2019 · 4 min · itgaiden

Cloning virtual machines in vSphere series – Part 1: Types of clone

Most of you already know how to clone virtual machines within vSphere, and I mean cloning from the vSphere Web client within vCenter but, beyond that, there are other types of clones you can use in vCenter like, Linked Clones or Instant Clones (aka Project Fargo/VMfork) Due to the large content that can be discussed about each clone’s type, I decided to make a short series of posts talking about cloning VMs!...

February 25, 2019 · 4 min · itgaiden

IT skills: Which gap to fill?

Regarding this nice article, I read while ago from Eric Shanks: https://theithollow.com/2018/03/26/fill-skills-tank/. I decided to write about it as it’s always in my mind since he published it. In particular, I will talk about what we should learn in order to fill a gap for a position/job in any technology and my experience. Which path to choose? I started learning Microsoft (MS) products and then I learned other technologies like Virtualization, Cloud, Storage, etc....

January 31, 2019 · 5 min · itgaiden

Experience at VMworld 2018 Europe – Day 3 and Day 4

To finish these posts about VMworld 2018 Europe, I am going to summarize day 3 and day 4 together as day 4 is usually the less busy of all of them (people usually leave in the morning). On day 3 (Wednesday), I rest like 5-6 hours (pretty normal to me) after spending some part of the night at the Veeam Party. I made it to be at the enclosure at 8:30 AM because at 9:00 it will start the second general session....

December 31, 2018 · 3 min · itgaiden

Experience at VMworld 2018 Europe – Day 2

Today I am going to explain from my personal experience, the Day 2 at VMworld 2018 Europe, lots of networking, some technical sessions, events and the Solutions Exchange. Before moving forward, I forgot to mention that I met in my first day a nice guy, Daniel Paluszek @dpaluszek, we had a great conversation and he should be known as the vCloud Director guy ;). vBreakfast If you don’t what is, check it here: http://www....

December 13, 2018 · 4 min · itgaiden

Pre-VMworld 2018 Europe – Expectations and information

VMworld 2018 Europe is only a week away! And I wanted to explain you share expectations and information I found about. It will be my 1st time! VMworld Location As you may know, VMworld Europe is located in Fira Barcelona between 5-8th of November. As it’s in Barcelona, I am able to assist without paying any trip (I live close to the city). Main information When: 5-8 November 2018 Where: Barcelona, Spain | Exact location: https://goo....

October 29, 2018 · 2 min · itgaiden

VCAP6-DCV Deploy exam experience

Hi! I am going to talk about my VCAP6-DCV Deploy exam experience. I thought about making a huge post about the VCAP6-DCV experience (resources, notes, etc.) but, I don’t want to overwhelm you know. Hence, I am going to make another post for that, hence this post will be shorter and more readable. 1st attempt (Java error at the beginning) At September, 21st I sat down to take my first attempt in a VCAP exam....

October 19, 2018 · 6 min · itgaiden

VM showing disk size is 0 MB

Some time ago, I was doing some clean up on VMs that have attached an image file, when I found a particular VM with strange behavior, each disk from the VM (local and RDM disks) was showing 0 MB of disk size: So, what I did? First of all, I checked the guest OS and verified that it was up and running. So I was wondering how the guest OS seems correct but vSphere Web Client (I refreshed several times the browser) was showing no space in all disks and I verified in the Datastores that the ....

October 3, 2018 · 2 min · itgaiden