May 1, 2023 | DellEMC, iDRAC
Creating Virtual Disk 1. Press the F2 key during POST and launch the System Setup Menu. (Or press the F10 key during POST and select System Setup > Hardware Settings from the LifeCycle Controller menu.) 2. Click Device Settings on the System Setup screen. 3. Select...
May 1, 2023 | DellEMC, iDRAC
If you plan to upgrade firmware on your Dell hardware and you don’t have OpenManage Enterprise you can use iDRAC and Dell Repository Manager (DRM) to create smart bootable ISO with the latest firmware upgrades. Dell Repository Manager (DRM) is an application...
Mar 14, 2023 | VMware, vSphere
This article assumes that you have done the following tasks: Preparing ESXi host according to the best practices for your storage vendor Installing and configuring of storage hardware Creating iSCSI LUNs and Targets Setup Virtual Networking on ESXi Server for iSCSI...
Mar 14, 2023 | DellEMC, VMware, vSAN, vSphere, VxRail
Deploy the Witness ESXi OVA at the third site Note:- The third site for the witness ESXi OVA to be deployed must be outside of the vSAN or VxRail Cluster. Note:- The Witness ESXi OVA host can be deployed on ESXi host 6.0+(CPU must support 6.7 or later). Note:- You...
Feb 24, 2023 | VMware, vSphere
During some changes on switches in the customer’s environment, vCenter lost its network. The customer was unable to access the vCenter vSphere client to make any changes to the network. Management Network only existed in a Distributed Switch, there were also no...
Jan 13, 2023 | VMware, vSphere
When trying to change some settings on an ESXi host, I’ve experienced a problem with putting the host in “Maintenance mode”. Entering “Maintenance mode” stuck at 71%, and I tried exiting hung “Maintenance mode” but it...
Oct 24, 2022 | VCF, VMware, vSAN, vSphere
I had to replace all licenses in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) because some of them were expiring and others should be replaced because the customer has bought new licenses and planned to reuse existing ones for another environment. After checking out the VMware Cloud...
Oct 20, 2022 | NVIDIA, VMware, vSphere
As Machine Learning and AI rapidly grow within the IT industry and the car industry, financial or medical industry, VMware collaborated with NVIDIA to increase the productivity of vSphere and bring AI to the data center. So now we have the NVIDIA AI Enterprise suite...
Oct 12, 2022 | VMware, VMware Aria Suite, VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle, vRealize
In August 2022 VMware announced and introduced VMware Aria, a multi-cloud management portfolio that provides a set of end-to-end solutions for managing the cost, performance, configuration, and delivery of infrastructure and applications. VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle™...
Sep 13, 2022 | VMware, vSAN, VxRail
vSAN release catalog provides critical information to vSAN build recommendation engine. It will be updated when there are new releases or critical patches. It is important to keep the local copy up-to-date. This check is to ensure that the local copy of the vSAN...
