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...
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...
