VMware
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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…
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How to tweak performance ESXi 6.0
We might not think about tweaking of the ESXi hosts themselves for performance. While there are other major areas of performance consideration in a vSphere cluster such as your storage IOPs, memory, and CPU resources, there are a few little…
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Create Linked Clone using PowerCLI ESXi 6
Guys, just wanted to write up a quick post on how to spin up a linked clone in ESXi 6.0 using only PowerCLI, this may come in handy if you are testing in a lab environment or have the need…
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Exclude hosts from vRealize Operations manager license
For those of you running vRealize Operations Manager, you may have a license for say only 6 sockets to monitor your environment. However, you may want to add hosts from your DEV or TEST environments to that same vCenter environment,…
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vRealize Operations Manager Reset Admin password can’t login
Recently, in working with vRealize Operations Manager, I was prompted to change the admin password while logging into the console. Using the prompts at the console of the vApp, I was able to successfully set the password. However, after that point, access…
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Connecting to Virtual Center server is not supported by this client
Lately, I have been trying to get my Windows 10 VM up and running with a lot of the management tools that I use on a daily basis. After loaded the vSphere client from one of my ESXi hosts, I…
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Change vRealize Operations Manager 6.01 appliance IP Address
Recently in upgrading a production vSphere 5.5 environment to 6.0, I have been working through the individual infrastructure pieces left over to upgrade. I spun up a new vRealize Operations Manager Appliance to take the place of the current vCenter…
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Install Dell OMSA 8.1 in ESXi 6.0 and add to OME
Recently, after upgrading a Dell Cluster to vSphere 6.0, one of the tasks that I wanted to accomplish was to install the new Open Manage Server Administrator or OMSA in my newly upgraded Dell R620’s and then add those servers…
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Upgrade ESXi 5.5 Dell Server cluster to ESXi 6 with VUM
In the post today I would like to go through the process to update a Dell ESXi 5.5 cluster to 6.0 using VUM. Updating a Dell Server cluster running ESXi 5.5 to version 6 is really no different that updating…
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Upgrading Windows vCenter Server and Update Manager 5.5 to 6.0
The upgrade process to get from the Windows version of vCenter Server 5.5 and Update Manager 5.5 to 6.0 is very straightforward. The installer in my case worked flawlessly and had no issues running the install wizard and getting the…
