vCenter upgrade at Stage 2 fails with message ‘An error occurred while starting …
Recently came across with a situation where upgrade to vCenter version 7.x was failing from version 6.7 with message ‘An error occurred while starting service ‘hvc’ This issue arises in Stage 2 which is an essentially a mid-stage of an upgrade process, and an admin can’t resume the upgrade […]
Replace NSX(-T) self-signed certificates – mb-labs.de
Many of you are probably also annoyed by the certificate error message in the browser when you admin your NSX environment. Unfortunately, certificate handling in NSX is not very easy and has a few pitfalls. Therefore I would like to show you in the following tutorial how to replace the […]
How to replace some of ESXi Kickstart automation with new configstorecli commands?
I had received a question a couple of weeks back from a customer who was already automating their ESXi installation using ESXi Kickstart, also known as ESXi Scripted Installation but they had ran into an issue when migrating the exact same automation to the latest ESXi 7.0 releases. The method […]
Save the Date for VMware Explore 2023
We’re excited to announce the next event dates and locations for VMware Explore 2023! August 21 – 24, 2023: The Venetian Convention and Expo Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. November 6 – 9, 2023: Fira Gran Via in Barcelona, Spain. Download the calendar invite and block your schedule off now!
Terraform VMC provider update with SDDC Grouping
With the recent release of VMC terraform provider 1.12, we have now the SDDC Grouping function that will allow us to create SDDC group and attach SDDC. Code example Just add the sddc_group resource. Give it a name and description and a list of SDDCs you want to attach. Here only one. Add some outputs you want to … Continued The post Terraform VMC provider update with SDDC Grouping appeared first on VMware Cloud Blog.
🏆 VMware Leads the HCI Market in Q3 of 2022, According to IDC
VMware is excited to announce that it is the leading HCI software vendor for Q3 of 2022, according to data provided in the IDC Worldwide Converged Systems Tracker. Systems running VMware accounted for 40.76% of the market share, representing more adoption than the following four vendors combined.
ESXi on AMD ChangWang CW56-58
It can be pretty difficult to find an AMD-based small form factor (SFF) kit that is compatible with recent ESXi releases. The large majority of these AMD SFF kits all use Realtek for their onboard network adaptor and Realtek does not have a driver for ESXi, nor have they expressed any interests in creating one. […]
Just In! New Courses on Telco, vSphere 8, NSX
VMware Learning is pleased to announce the addition of eight new courses to our course catalog as we close out the year. Gain access to the courses that matter most to your future and reach all your learning goals next year with these courses on Telco, vSphere 8, and NSX. VMware Telco Cloud […]
Manually updating ESXi Hosts
This holiday season I had some time to install some much needed ESXi updates in my homelab. Since I have a small number of hosts to patch, I often update them manually instead of using vLCM (or VUM […]
NSX Application Platform (NAPP) // NSX Advanced Load Balancer (NSX ALB)
Understand NSX Application Platform (NAPP) architecture and how to deploy it using NSX Advanced Load Balancer (NSX ALB / Avi). To master NSX Logical Routing, please check out my book https://amzn.to/3Q4V4IU.
VCF 4.4.0 vRSLCM 8.6.2 vRNI 6.1 | Unable to map binary for vRNI upgrade for 6.3
Happy New Year 2023. This is the 1st post of 2023 where we wanted to upgrade VRNI from 6.1 to 6.5 using the VRSLCM 8.6.2. After checking the upgrade path for VRNI the bundle for VRNI 6.2 and 6.3 was downloaded and unable to upload the binary due to the version support issue as show in the below [..]
vSphere with Tanzu using NSX-T – Safely deleting NotReady nodes from a TKC
Safely deleting NotReady nodes from a Tanzu Kubernetes Cluster (TKC)
Insufficient licensable resources available to create Service Engine – NSX Advan…
While playing around with NSX-T Advanced Load Balancer, I noticed the following alarm: Insufficient licensable resources available to create Service Engine. But how is it getting triggered and most importantly how to solve it?
Enable Hot CPU and Hot Memory Add Feature with PowerCLI
Hello all, One of my colleague looking for a PowerCLI script that is enabling Hot Add CPU and Hot Add Memory feature on listed VMs. He did quite lot search on google and find out couple of scripts […]
Unregister vCSA Plugin or Extension via vCenter MOB
Have you had an issue with vCenter Server Appliance? Well there is a way to fix and remove a plugin or extension. Open up your browser to https:// /mob and login with your credentials, if you do not have any other identity source you will need to login with your administrator […]
How to create a Datacenter in vCenter 8? | Use Cases
Agenda What is vCenter? What is VC Datacenter? How to Create a Datacenter in vCenter 8? What are all VC Datacenter Use Cases? Thank you #vmware #hpe #datacenter #vc #vcsa #esx
Cross connecting vSAN Datastores with HCI Mesh in vSAN 8 OSA
Yesterday I had a discussion internally on Slack about a configuration for a customer. The customer had multiple locations and had the potential to create various clusters within locations, or across locations. Now, as most of you know, I have been talking a lot about stretched clusters […]
True Surround Sound with VMware Horizon
I have enjoyed gaming over VMware Horizon for a few months, and I thought it was time to push the limits further. Would I be able to get True Surround Sound or Dolby Atmos, and how would it make a […]
Quick Tip – How to check if vSAN TRIM/UNMAP is enabled in VMware Cloud on AWS Cluster?
While the original question was for checking whether a specific VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC-A) cluster has the vSAN TRIIM/UNMAP feature enabled, the solutions below is applicable to any recent vSAN 7.x or 8.x deployment. There are two ways you check, either using the vSphere UI by selecting the cluster and navigating to Configure->vSAN->Services and […]
Skyline Insights API – Send Results to Email
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