Automating Host Maintenance with VMware Dispatch Part 2
For part 2 of Automating Host Maintenance with VMware Dispatch we’re going to create a function that will unmanage the node in Solarwinds when a host enters ...
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vsphere
Automating Host Maintenance with VMware Dispatch
Following up on my previous post, Event Based Automation with VMware Dispatch, this one will demonstrate using Dispatch to automate actions when a host enter...
Event Based Automation with VMware Dispatch
One of the things that immediately drew my attention to Dispatch was the vCenter event driver. Executing an automated task based on a vCenter event has alwa...
Capturing Network Traffic on ESXi Hosts
This article shares some notes I took on packet captures (specifically using pktcap-uw) and challenges I ran into recently while troubleshooting the boot up ...
Storage DRS and RDMs
To summarize, store RDM mapping files on a dedicated datastore outside of any SDRS cluster. This is one of those things that I wanted to write about with th...
Showing Connected vCenters in PowerCLI
If you work with multiple vCenters in PowerCLI you might find it useful to show the vCenter connections in the Powershell title bar. I often have multiple Po...
vSphere Web Client Error After Replacing Certificates
Managing certificates in a large vSphere environment has never been particularly fun. Admittedly, it has improved vastly since the release of 6.x and the in...
Fixing the Site Recovery Manager Site ID
I was recently upgrading Site Recovery Manager to 6.5 and realized that I had entered the site name incorrectly during the upgrade process. After the instal...
Failed to configure Site Recovery Manager with Platform Services Controller
While upgrading Site Recovery Manager to 6.5 I got “Error 25212. Failed to configure Site Recovery Manager with Platform Services Controller”
The upgrade contains the following set of conflicting VIBs
There are a lot of articles written on this subject that explain how to use esxcli to remove the conflicting VIBs. While that is usually the easiest way to w...
Updating ESXi 6.0 - [Errno 27] File too large
I’ve been upgrading a lot of ESXi 6.0 hosts to 6.5 lately. As much as I’d like to go to vSphere 6.7, a lot of the client plugins and 3rd party solutions jus...
Alerting when vSphere HA VM Monitoring Restarts a VM
vSphere HA VM monitoring is a feature that I haven’t used a great deal. I’ve always been hesitant to have a VM reset automatically based only on a heartbeat...
vSphere Reporting with Vester
If you’re not familiar with Vester it’s a really cool, light-weigth approach to configuration management for your vSphere environment. You can check out the...
NFS Advanced Settings and vCheck
While working on a new plugin for the popular vCheck tool, I wanted to find the most common recommendations for the ESXi advanced settings pertaining to NFS/...
EsxCli Advanced Settings
I recently wanted to know what the default setting was for a few of the ESXi advanced settings. Since there’s no telling what has been changed on many of my...
automation
Posting Alerts to Microsoft Teams
Webhooks provide a convenient way to send data to other systems. VMware vRealize Operations and Log Insight both allow you to send alerts to a webhook, whic...
VMware PowerCLI 10.0 on Docker Hub
Last week I wrote about the release of VMware PowerCLI 10.0 and running it on Photon OS. After running through this exercise I thought it would be really us...
Reporting on HPE Warranty/Entitlements from OneView
Getting the warranty info or support entitlements for a long list of HPE servers can be a bit daunting using the HPE support website. You can enter serial n...
VMware PowerCLI 10.0 Released!
VMware PowerCLI 10.0 was released last week. The most notable enhancement in this release is official multi-platform support for Mac OS and Linux. Linux and...
vSphere Reporting with Vester
If you’re not familiar with Vester it’s a really cool, light-weigth approach to configuration management for your vSphere environment. You can check out the...
vrealize
Troubleshooting Endpoint Operations Remote Checks
The Endpoint Operations functionality that is included with vROps is a great way to do more with vROps as a monitoring solution. With Endpoint Operations yo...
Using Log Insight to Monitor a Windows CA
Log Insight is a really versatile tool when it comes to monitoring and searching logs. I often forget that it can be useful for a lot more than just your VM...
Migrating to vRealize Orchestrator 7.5
vRealize Orchestrator 7.5 does not have an upgrade path from prior versions, but there is a migration process to migrate from an older version to a new deplo...
vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 1.3 Overview
This is a quick overview of vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager and some of the amazing automation and lifecycle management capabilities that it has to offer fo...
vSphere
Automate Host Maintenance with the vCenter Event Broker Appliance
The vCenter Event Broker Appliance is a new VMware Fling and open source project that was recently released at VMworld Europe. Using OpenFaaS and its vCente...
vSphere Profile-Driven Storage Errors
This is another strange problem that I experienced recently. Restarting the Profile-Driven Storage service fixed all the errors, but diagnosing them was not...
ESXi QFLE3 Driver Causing PSODs
I had a couple of exciting months after upgrading all of my vSphere environments to 6.7 Update 1. There are two separate bugs in the qfle3 drivers that caus...
An error occurred while starting service ‘updatemgr’
I recently upgraded an environment to vSphere 6.7 Update 1. After updating vCenter I updated a number of hosts with vSphere Update Manager before running in...
powershell
VMware PowerCLI 10.0 on Docker Hub
Last week I wrote about the release of VMware PowerCLI 10.0 and running it on Photon OS. After running through this exercise I thought it would be really us...
Reporting on HPE Warranty/Entitlements from OneView
Getting the warranty info or support entitlements for a long list of HPE servers can be a bit daunting using the HPE support website. You can enter serial n...
VMware PowerCLI 10.0 Released!
VMware PowerCLI 10.0 was released last week. The most notable enhancement in this release is official multi-platform support for Mac OS and Linux. Linux and...
esxi
NFS Advanced Settings and vCheck
While working on a new plugin for the popular vCheck tool, I wanted to find the most common recommendations for the ESXi advanced settings pertaining to NFS/...
EsxCli Advanced Settings
I recently wanted to know what the default setting was for a few of the ESXi advanced settings. Since there’s no telling what has been changed on many of my...
powercli
vSphere Reporting with Vester
If you’re not familiar with Vester it’s a really cool, light-weigth approach to configuration management for your vSphere environment. You can check out the...
EsxCli Advanced Settings
I recently wanted to know what the default setting was for a few of the ESXi advanced settings. Since there’s no telling what has been changed on many of my...
vcenter
vCSA 6.5 Backup - PNID not resolved error
The vCenter 6.5 appliance introduced a new, built-in backup process that can be accessed through the VAMI interface. On one of my vCenters the backup would r...
IPv6 DNS Error Upgrading to vCSA 6.5
I was recently uprading a vCenter Server Appliance from 6.0 to 6.5 and ran into an interesting error during the upgrade pre-check. It identified that the ap...
vcsa
vCSA 6.5 Backup - PNID not resolved error
The vCenter 6.5 appliance introduced a new, built-in backup process that can be accessed through the VAMI interface. On one of my vCenters the backup would r...
IPv6 DNS Error Upgrading to vCSA 6.5
I was recently uprading a vCenter Server Appliance from 6.0 to 6.5 and ran into an interesting error during the upgrade pre-check. It identified that the ap...
jekyll
Hello World!
Welcome to my new IT/tech related blog! I’ve been exploring GitHub pages and Jekyll and it is looking like a pretty cool blogging platform.
update
Hello World!
Welcome to my new IT/tech related blog! I’ve been exploring GitHub pages and Jekyll and it is looking like a pretty cool blogging platform.
minecraft
Minecraft Server Build
I’ve been thinking about setting up a small Minecraft server for a while now. It’s a great game for kids and can also serve as an educational tool. As a qu...
gaming
Minecraft Server Build
I’ve been thinking about setting up a small Minecraft server for a while now. It’s a great game for kids and can also serve as an educational tool. As a qu...
nfs
NFS Advanced Settings and vCheck
While working on a new plugin for the popular vCheck tool, I wanted to find the most common recommendations for the ESXi advanced settings pertaining to NFS/...
nas
NFS Advanced Settings and vCheck
While working on a new plugin for the popular vCheck tool, I wanted to find the most common recommendations for the ESXi advanced settings pertaining to NFS/...
vcheck
NFS Advanced Settings and vCheck
While working on a new plugin for the popular vCheck tool, I wanted to find the most common recommendations for the ESXi advanced settings pertaining to NFS/...
vRealize
vRealize Easy Installer
The recent release of vRealize Automation 8.0 comes with a vastly simplified installation process and architecture. The Windows based IaaS servers have been...