I found an error when upgrading my ESXi 6.7 hosts to 7.0 today. The upgrade via Lifecycle Manager (AKA Update Manager (VUM)) shows as ‘incompatible’ when the host is remediated…
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After a few incidents recently with clients using IBM storage, I thought I would write this quick post to remind people that ATS Heartbeats on IBM Storage arrays should be…
I’m currently in the process of upgrading a number of hosts in an environment. I needed to see the status of the host upgrading and patching process. Below is an…
When studying for my VCAP6-DCV Deploy, I developed an Excel sheet to help me understand the password string to change the vSphere password complexity requirements. Based on the vSphere documentation…
After implementing VM Storage Profiles this week at a client’s site, I noticed that even though I had added the correct storage profile to the virtual machine, and to the…
I was asked by one of my clients to look at a locked VM that couldn’t be powered off, deleted, edited, vMotioned or otherwise altered from its current state. As…
Continuing on from my previous post about EVC Mode when migrating from old to new hardware and vCenter 5.1 to vCenter 6.0, I encountered another issue that you should be…
This week I have being migrating VMs from a vCenter 5.1 environment to a new vCenter 6.0 for a client As the client must have as near to zero downtime…
While covering for a colleague at one of our clients, I noticed that one of the datastores was showing as inactive on one of the hosts (ESXi 5.5 Express Patch…