Virtualization
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Windows Server 2016 Install VMware Paravirtual SCSI controller
For best disk performance with virtual machines, it is advisable to use the VMware Paravirtual SCSI controller for the virtual disks. However, if you try to install Windows Server 2016 with the VMware Paravirtual SCSI adapter on a clean OS…
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Remove Orphaned VM in VMware vCenter Web Client
Recently, I ran into an issue where I had a VM that was showing as orphaned in vCenter 6.5 web client. The VM was not showing on the host itself when logging in directly. When I right clicked on the…
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VMware ESXi 6.5 Can’t Add Existing iSCSI LUN
In playing around with adding an existing iSCSI LUN to a new VMware ESXi 6.5 host in a lab environment, I ran into a peculiar issue adding the storage to the server. In thoroughly checking everything back over, I didn’t…
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How to Create VMFS 6 Datastore in VMware vSphere 6.5
With all of the new storage enhancements that come with vSphere 6.5 using 4K aligned drives and the new unmap feature, you need to use a VMFS 6 formatted datastore. How do you create a VMFS 6 datastore? Let’s take…
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VMware ESXi 6.5 4k Drive Support
One of the new features and functionality that is probably getting overlooked with the other great functionality that is out in vSphere 6.5, is VMware ESXi 6.5 4k 512e drive support. Let’s take a look at some of the details of…
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How to Configure VMware VCSA 6.5 HA
One of the many exciting new features of the VCSA 6.5 appliance is the builtin ability for high availability or HA out of the box. The HA configuration process creates two additional appliances that are a “passive” node and a…
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VMware vSphere 6.5 new features
VMware vSphere 6.5 has been released now and we are beginning to get our heads around the new functionality and features that are contained in this release. There is no question that the new VCSA 6.5 appliance contains some of…
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VMware VCSA 6.5 Appliance Restore
In the last post, we covered the process to backup the new VCSA 6.5 appliance. Let’s now take a look at the VMware VCSA 6.5 appliance restore process from the backup file set. As shown in the previous post, the…
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New VMware VCSA 6.5 Appliance Backup
With the new VCSA 6.5 appliance, there is new functionality to backup the VCSA appliance builtin to the VAMI interface. You will notice there is a new “Backup” button over in the upper right hand corner. Let’s take a look…
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Snapshot The features supported by the processors in this machine are different
Recently, I ran into a catch 22 of sorts with a VM that was running a snapshot in a development environment. The VM had a snapshot created for a quick “rinse and repeat” set of operations where we needed the…
