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Hi all! Time for some VMware stuff now! I was planing to do patchning this weekend, and I always try on test servers first.…
I my post before I explained how to fix a corrupt VCLs. When I did this in the lab I misspelled the setting. When…
I ran into som very strange problem on an SQL server this fall that I need to tell you about. The Error A read…
Hi! I upgraded some vmware cluster and stumble up on VCLS machine on high cpu usages. That is strange, because these are small machines…
The goal of this action was to upgrade a cluster with nvidia graphics card from 6.7 to 7.0.3. Before the upgrade everything worked fine.…
After firmware upgrade of DELL server we got issue regarding SD Card mirror. Here is how we sloved this. DELL Support is informed and…
Hi! Not everyone are using distributed switches in there vmware enviroment or the licence for host profiles. Some uses ordinary vswitches, like me. And…
Hi all! The latest posts has been about how to get the most of our hardware in a virtual machines. But sometimes you need…
Last post I was looking at vCPU configuration on a vm to get best performance on a vm. Now it is time to take…
We start with what our goals are We have a vm that want to take as much cpu power as possible from the host.…
If you attending John strand in this epic course and want to run the lab vm in Vmware ESXi please read this. If not,…
Goal for today is to connect to work machine, in this case a Windows 10 and have all the functions that I have when…
We had a failure on a core switch and following we got strange issue with our ESXi host that were running HP / Intel…
Uninstall PowerCLI from VMware (we add it later from PSGallery) Start Powershell Set tls security to 1.2 [Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12 Set http proxy [Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("HTTP_PROXY",…
This simple powershell scripts copy vlans from one server to another. With this script I needed to manually create the vmotion network after. But…
I did get this on 2 different upgrade I did I tried two methods both worked for me. Reboot VirtualCenter server and do the…
I was troubleshooting a ESXi host with esxtop, but the terminal was screwed up. The thing to set is this: TERM=xterm Then run esxtop…
Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA) has also been tested by VMware Engineering and verified to be compatible with these changes. IWA uses different protocols and…
How to completely remove and start from scratch regardning Nimble Plugin in Vcenter. W had the plugin that was in running mode 1 –…
Thanx to Dave Parker http://computersalad.blogspot.com/2018/09/using-vmware-remote-console-on-debian.html sudo su cd /usr/lib/vmware/bin mv vmrc vmrc.old Create a new vmrc file in /usr/lib/vmware/bin with this content #!/bin/bash LIBDIR="/usr/lib/vmware/lib"…
Special thanks to my better looking colleague @ http://blogg.schillman.se/ He is a powershell guru! I did this on Linux so I do not have…
(We are using old version of VCenter Server 6.5 Update 1e), Yes, we are about to upgrade! When you clone a machine in HTML5…
Thanks to Author: Tim Carman Twitter: @tpcarman Github: tpcarman https://www.timcarman.net/2017/10/27/add-remove-virtual-machines-based-datastore-location-powercli/ Functions: Add-DrsVMtoDrsVMGroup Remove-DrsVMFromDrsVMGroup install Powershell Get PowerShell to work with ubuntu 19.10 Budgie Create…
If you want to monitor your enviroment using snmp you can. I will recommend going to SNMPv3 not v2 like this….but I just wanted…
Start PowerShell as Administrator Install-Module -Name VMware.PowerCLI -Scope CurrentUser Install-Module ImportExcel -scope CurrentUser Install-Module vDocumentation -Scope CurrentUser Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted Set-PowerCLIConfiguration -InvalidCertificateAction Ignore -Confirm:$false Connect-VIServer…
You get an error when editing advanced option on ESXi host (syslog) But when you do this from CLI it work and the option…
1 physical server to virtual with VMware Converter 6.2 failed after 3% with error. FAILED: An error occurred during the conversion: ‘BlockLevelVolumeCloneMgr::CloneVolume: Detected a…
1 physical server with AD,DNS,DHCP and file services. I want to convert the physical server to a virtual machine with Vmware Converter 6.2 Went…
After I upgraded a host to 6.7U2 from 6.5 I got som strange performance chart, Realtime, 1 day for latency view.Looked like this: The…
You need ip connectivity from the temp VC to the ESXi host that the upgraded VC is hosted. We want to upgrade VC-CUST (192.168.1.1),…
Getting some error when try to run ./vmware-install.pl vcli Path::Class 0.33 or newer Socket6 0.28 or newer IO::Socket::INET6 2.72 or newer Net::INET6Glue 0.603 or…
To fix this Browse to VirtualCenter Down at the right bottom on page press Download trusted root CA Unpack the zip file Open Certmgr.msc…
Unable to reset sensors, unable to delete log from Vsphere Client/Web You get these messages: System Management Software 1 SEL Fullness Status of other…
When you have upgraded to 6.5 and did not notice that you had a 5.0.0. server in the Virtual Center. You can upgrade the…
Unable to send alarms from Virtual Center, or you get strange smtp errors on smtp server. Connect to the Virtual Center with ssh cd…
One smash, two flies After upgrading from 6.5 vcsa to 6.7 without any problem, update manager is missing in the clients, both flash and…
Easy one Uninstall VCenter Server from Windows Copy/Backup and Remove C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\SSL Reinstall same Virtual Center that was installed before. Or you can…
When expand the vmdk from webclient, it breaks and error message could not complete. Then the VM gets invalid in the inventory Solution:…
Full list: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.7/rn/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-67-release-notes.html The vSphere 6.7 release is the final release of vCenter Server for Windows In-Guest unmap with snapshots VMware is deprecating webplatform.js,…
Get VM list from a datstore Get-datastore | Where {$_.name -like ‘*DATASTORE01*’} | Get-VM Find snapshots Get-Snapshot -vm * -name “VEEAM BACKUP*” | Format-Table…
/etc/vmware/vpx/vpxa.cfg stop vpxa on the host (/etc/init.d/vpxa stop) Replace the hostname with host management IP in the vpxa.cfg file. start vpxa service (/etc/init.d/vpxa start) …
curl https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | sudo apt-key add – Add source deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.microsoft.com/debian/stretch/prod stretch main sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install -y powershell pwsh Install-Module -Name VMware.PowerCLI -Scope…
Thin Disks VM server Windows 50GB Disk C:\ Guest Zero in guest WILL fill the disk sdelete -z C:\ VMDK will be 50GB Guest…
This is not used after 6.0. You will see a warning in VirtualCeneter that you have a certificate warning. And if you go in…
To resolve this I did patch 5.5 first, reboot and then I was able to upgrade.
When remmidate you get this error. I installed the patches that I can stage. Stuck on Next step: esxcli network firewall unload esxcli…
Dell: https://vmwaredepot.dell.com/index.xml) HP: http://vibsdepot.hpe.com/getting_started.html#DepotContent http://vibsdepot.hpe.com/index.xml – latest HPE Value-Add components (for VUM) http://vibsdepot.hpe.com/hpe/<release date>/index.xml or http://vibsdepot.hpe.com/hpq/<release date>/index.xml – latest HPE Value-Add components…
Scan the host with UpdateManager and look at the result: The upgrade contains the following set of conflicting VIBs QLogic_bootbank_scsi-qla2xxx_934.5.29.0-1OEM.500.0.0.472560 Emulex_bootbank_scsi-lpfc820_8.2.4.151.65-1OEM.500.0.0.472560 Emulex_bootbank_scsi-lpfc820_8.2.4.151.65-1OEM.500.0.0.472560 QLogic_bootbank_scsi-qla2xxx_934.5.29.0-1OEM.500.0.0.472560 Solution:…
