VMware
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Can you Install VMware ESXi on 4kn Drives
The answer to the question posed in the post title is – yes you can INSTALL ESXi on 4kn drives. However as I tested recently, the problem you will run into is being able to add a datastore. Let’s take…
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ESXTOP troubleshoot VM network connectivity
ESXTOP is one of the best all around troubleshooting tools in the toolbox of a VMware administrator and it is a built in commandline tool available as soon as you install ESXi. It is an extraordinarily valuable tool to use…
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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. I was simulating different WAN/subnet environments using an Untangle appliance as a router in…
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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”. As I had connected to this manager before using an API client, I knew that it was accessible…
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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. I couldn’t ping the host, and also even worse, couldn’t get to the…
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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. Through the GUI the process is fairly straightforward. However, after adding a domain in testing, removing, and adding again, I ran into an…
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Troubleshooting VMware VCSA 6 disk space issues
Over the past weekend, I noticed via alerts that there were issues connecting to my vCenter environment. I have seen some false positives before with the alerts and vCenter connectivity, so I wasn’t too concerned at first. However, upon just…
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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. I had a situation in a lab where I imported numerous server VMs from…
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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. But alas, we don’t have to wait! With the new fling available…
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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. The process is fairly standardized with VMware’s appliances and for the…
