Apr 26, 2022 | VMware, vSphere
During my recent upgrade of vSphere to version 7 within the customer’s environment, I had to change the FQDN of the vCenter Server. As the customer phased out its vSphere 6.7 environment problem was that their vCenter was vCenter Server for Windows v5.5 in the...
Apr 22, 2022 | DellEMC, VMware, vSAN, vSphere
In case you use custom ISO or custom vSphere Installation Bundles (VIBs) for the installation of your ESXi you are aware that those include Third-Party drivers or management agents. In some cases, you also need to manage those installed drivers or agents with VUM or...
Apr 22, 2022 | VMware, vSphere
During my latest upgrade from vSphere 6.7 to vSphere v7 with one of my customers, I experienced some interesting errors.During an Upgrade Pre-Check we received the first errors: Ok, we’ve deleted those Host profiles with lower versions. But the problem with the...
Apr 22, 2022 | DellEMC, VMware, vSAN, vSphere
A few days ago I was upgrading vSphere 6.7 to a vSphere 7, and after the vCenter upgrade, I experienced problems with the upgrade of some ESXi hosts using the Custom DellEMC ISO image. Upon attaching Upgrade Baseline and running Check Compliance it returned status...
Feb 9, 2022 | VMware, vSAN, vSphere
If you use a vSAN in your environment you will probably some day experience errors in the Skyline Health Check that indicate your cluster is imbalanced, that some of your disks have high space usage and others are very low and it will cause your cluster health is no...
Jan 31, 2022 | VMware, vRealize
Once vRealize Automation is installed successfully, you as a user should be able to log in to the console. This login is provided by the authentication framework in VMware Identity Manager. Upon logging in successfully, what services do you have access to is defined...
Jan 11, 2022 | DellEMC, VMware, vSAN, vSphere, VxRail
In this post I would like to introduce you and try to give you a better idea of what SaaS multi-cluster management for VxRail HCI System Software (formerly known as VxRail ACE Analytical Consulting Engine) is. VxRail HCI System Software consists of multiple,...
Nov 22, 2021 | DellEMC, iDRAC, Linux, VxRail
In this short tutorial I will try to explain how to setup SNMPv3 to work with Dell iDRAC 9. In my case I’ll be configuring it on a Dell R740XD vSAN Ready Node. First off, to configure it through iDRAC Web interface, log into the iDRAC 9 web interface using the...
