vcenter
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VMware
Use PowerCLI to See ESXi Host Failed Login Errors
Monitoring for error messages as a VI admin is extremely important part of daily administration, especially when managing large environments with multiple servers and virtual machines. Sometimes we get lost in the noise of notifications and alerts that we can…
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NSX
Create VMware vSphere Distributed Switch VDS for NSX Data Center
In deploying a VMware NSX environment, one of the first things that you will want to do is create vSphere Distributed Switches for the hosts in the environment to use with NSX. In fact, the NSX vSwitch is based on…
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vSAN
Move VMware vSAN 6.7 Stretched Cluster to Different vCenter Server
In my home lab I have had several projects going on that have been slowly taking place over the past few weeks. One of those projects was getting my “prodution” vSphere vSAN cluster upgraded to vSphere 6.7 across the board…
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vSphere 6.5
Monitor and Troubleshoot VMware vCenter Server VCSA Performance
At times we run into performance or other issues with VMware vCenter Server or we want to monitor system resources on the vCenter appliance itself. There are nice new tools built into the new VMware vCenter 6.5 Server VAMI interface…
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Horizon View
Setup VMware Horizon View Connection Server vCenter Connection
In continuing our setup of the View Connection Server, let’s take a look at how to setup VMware Horizon View Connection Server vCenter Connection. The vCenter Server connection provides the connection server hooks into vCenter as well as gives us…
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VMware
Four ways to upload files to VMware vSphere datastore
Uploading files whether it be ISO’s, VMX config files, or VMDKs is a necessary task for most VMware administrators in various situations. When looking to upload files to your VMware vSphere environment, there are multiple ways to skin a cat…
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vSphere 6.5
Remove Orphaned VM in VMware vCenter Web Client
Recently, I ran into an issue where I had a VM that was showing as orphaned in vCenter 6.5 web client. The VM was not showing on the host itself when logging in directly. When I right clicked on the…
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VMware
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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VMware
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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vSphere 6
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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