VMware

  • networkgrey02

    ESXi 6 Configure Management Network Greyed out

    The other day when playing around “rather hard” with distributed switches and NSX, I broke my distributed switch implementation on one of my lab ESXi 6 hosts. ย I couldn’t ping the host, and also even worse, couldn’t get to the…

  • nsxdomfeat

    VMware NSX Domain conflict with 1 existing domain

    Recently, I ran into a peculiar issue with VMware NSX trying to add domains for security grouping. ย Through the GUI the process is fairly straightforward. ย However, after adding a domain in testing, removing, and adding again, I ran into an…

  • vcsaspace01

    Troubleshooting VMware VCSA 6 disk space issues

    Over the past weekend, I noticed via alerts that there were issues connecting to my vCenter environment. ย I have seen some false positives before with the alerts and vCenter connectivity, so I wasn’t too concerned at first. ย However, upon just…

  • networkname01

    PowerCLI change network label for all VMs in a folder

    Just a quick blurb and a useful one liner used to change all the Network labels for all virtual machines that existed in a vCenter folder. ย I had a situation in a lab where I imported numerous server VMs from…

  • h5vsphere08

    New HTML5 vSphere Web Client

    With the new host UI that is present with vSphere ESXi 6 update 2, it gives us a taste of what the HTML5 web client might look like. ย But alas, we don’t have to wait! ย With the new fling available…

  • vrops_update11

    Upgrade VMware vRealize Operations Manager vROPs 6.2

    In rolling through quite a few upgrades recently, I wanted to posted some screenshots and process notes of upgrading vROPs 6.0.2 I had running in my environment to 6.2. ย The process is fairly standardized with VMware’s appliances and for the…

  • bootbank01

    Expecting 2 bootbanks found 0 VMware ESXi 6

    I ran into a pesky issue yesterday when rolling through a slew of host updates in a few production clusters. ย I had one host that presented with some odd issues during the update manager remediation phase. ย After rebooting the particular…

  • v6u2_03

    Update manager Upgrade VMware ESXi 6.0 update 2

    Below are the simple and easy steps to get your ESXi 6.0 u1 or earlier installation to update 2 (3620759) version. ย Using update manager the process is very simple. ย Make sure before updating your hosts that you have updated your…

  • hostui01a

    VMware ESXi 6.0 Update 2 Host Client

    With the release of ESXi 6.0 Update 2, one of the cool things with this release is VMware has included as RTM the Host Client which is written in HTML5 and allows administrators to have quick and easy access to…

  • unmap01

    ESXi 6 Equallogic reclaim free space

    If you are thin provisioning VMs in your environment with an Equallogic SAN attached to your cluster, you may find that you start receiving warning from SAN HQ or your group manager alerting which states [ID: 4.2] Caution: % In-use…