VMware

  • nsxjumbo04

    Troubleshooting NSX VXLAN jumbo frames in nested lab

    In working recently in a nested VMware environment running three clusters and NSX, I ran into a jumbo frames issue with VXLAN connectivity across the clusters. ย I was simulating different WAN/subnet environments using an Untangle appliance as a router in…

  • nsxconerror01

    There was an error connecting to NSX manager API

    A quick issue I ran into yesterday connecting a restful API client to an NSX manager – “there was an error connecting”. ย As I had connected to this manager before using an API client, I knew that it was accessible…

  • 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…