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...
Sep 13, 2022 | VMware, vSAN, VxRail
vSAN HCL database update Steps to download a local copy of the vSAN HCL database file Log in to a workstation where you have internet access. Open the below link in browser: https://partnerweb.vmware.com/service/vsan/all.json (Right click, Save as) Save...
Sep 13, 2022 | DellEMC, VMware, vSAN, vSphere, VxRail
What is a VxRail Satellite Node? If you’re looking for a way to extend your VxRail cluster to the edge, look no further than VxRail satellite nodes. These single nodes are specifically designed for deployment in edge environments and can be managed through a...
Sep 13, 2022 | VMware, vSphere
During my latest upgrade from vSphere 6.7 to vSphere v7 with one of my customers, I experienced a problem with VCSA backup prior to the upgrade. It failed with an error message that says “statsmonitor service not running”. Trying to start the service...
