vSphere 6
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VMware 6.0 End of Life Coming March 12, 2020
It seems like 2020 will be starting out as the year of “end of life” for many software solutions out in the field. Microsoft is cutting ties with Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 as well as SQL 2008 with…
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Upgrade VMware vCenter VCSA appliance to 6.0 U3b
Even though many may look at their next update/upgrade of VMware VCSA appliance as going to 6.5, some may still choose to remain on the 6.0 level for now until 6.5 gets a bit more maturity, etc. Â Let’s take a…
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Lost access to volume due to connectivity issues
Recently, I ran into an issue with a host where performance would tank from the client side. Â VM consoles and RDP sessions would disconnect as well as the host would become unresponsive to any types of commands within the vCenter…
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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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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. Â But alas, we don’t have to wait! Â 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. Â The process is fairly standardized with VMware’s appliances and for the…
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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. Â I had one host that presented with some odd issues during the update manager remediation phase. Â After rebooting the particular…
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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. Â Using update manager the process is very simple. Â Make sure before updating your hosts that you have updated your…
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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…
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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…
