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vSphere 6.7 – Update Manager – ESXi Upgrade Enhancements (No hardware reboots)

GrahamApril 17, 2018April 17, 2018

So vSphere 6.7 has been announced but what does this mean for Update Manager? Single reboot on upgrades Historically (Prior to 6.7) when upgrading a host Update Manager will trigger a reboot to prepare the host and then the installer will trigger another upgrade. These reboots add time to the maintenance...

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VMware News – April 2018 – New vSphere soon, vROps, Config Maximums Tool!

GrahamApril 14, 2018April 16, 2018

Quite a lot has been going on in April for VMware, so I've put a post together with notable news: vSphere - Next version The next version of vSphere looks to be coming soon. There has been some talk about its upcoming release in the public domain. I'm a Beta...

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Internal error when upgrading vCenter Server / PSC 6.0 to 6.5

GrahamMarch 17, 2018March 18, 2018

While everyone upgrades to the latest release of vSphere be aware that there are a few minor catches along the way. A couple I've seen this week include the vague error "An internal error has occurred" This seems to happen more on stage 2 of the upgrade process for either...

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How to check if your VMs are backed up with script – Backup Exec & Veeam etc

GrahamFebruary 27, 2018March 7, 2018

A quick post on using Powershell & PowerCLI to email you a list of VMs that are not getting backed up. Also functionality to exclude certain VMs from the check (those that you do not want to backup and be alerted on) Note that this is just a quick post,...

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vSphere 6.7 – VMFS3 Datastores No Longer Supported

GrahamFebruary 6, 2018April 17, 2018

As of vSphere 6.7 VMware no longer supports VMFS version 3 datastores. If a vSphere ESXi 6.7 host mounts a VMFS3 datastore, it will be automatically upgraded to VMFS 5. This automatic upgrade process is in-line and does not impact the availability of virtual machines, however this upgrade process will...

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VMware vSphere SSL Certficates – Easy as 1, 2, 3

GrahamJanuary 23, 2018February 23, 2018

This is a very quick post on the use of SSL certificates and vSphere. As of vSphere 6.0 and beyond VMware have provided a VMCA (VMware Certificate Authority) which by default signs all vSphere SSL certificates (vCenter Server & ESXi) The VCSA is a Platform Services Controller feature, enabled by...

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Spectre & Meltdown on VMware – What you need to patch

GrahamJanuary 8, 2018January 14, 2018

Spectre & Meltdown are hot topics at the moment but how does this affect VMware solutions? VMware have provided detail on their stance on the situation via mostly two KB articles; https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/52245 & https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/52264 In summary this is what is covered: ESXi, Workstation & Fusion ESXi is affected by Spectre and patches...

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vTestPlans – Free vSphere Test Plans

GrahamOctober 15, 2017October 22, 2017

I've recently had a few requests to share my vSphere test plans with the VMware community. Good news: With effect today I have reformatted my old test plans and uploaded them to GitHub. Please feel free to download, share & modify these. If you make any modifications or additions and...

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How do you kill a VM that will not power off?

GrahamFebruary 12, 2017February 12, 2017

Sometimes a virtual machine will not power off via the web client. To resolve this, the process is very simple: Enable SSH on the host that the VM is running on: 2. Login to the host via SSH 3. Run the following command: esxcli vm process list 4. Find the...

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The problem with point in time snapshots and vSphere Replication

GrahamFebruary 4, 2017October 22, 2017

vSphere Replication is a nice, simple solution to replicate Virtual Machines from one site to another. It helps protect your business against most common threats to the data center and furthermore it's included in vSphere standard and above at no extra cost. Some vSphere Replication users will notice an option...

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