Have you ever had the problem that your vCenter Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) could not connet to the default download source/repositories?? By default the standard is https://hostupdate.vmware.com/ and sometimes there are problems connect to them after changes, reboots or vCenter update/upgrades. If you want to check if its a problem related by the changes you made... Continue Reading →
If you want to upgrade your vCenter Server Appliance from 7.0.x to 8.0x you have to check a lot dependencies and Interoperabilities, but one thing the most of you (including me) may didn´t have on the radar... The LDAPS certificate!! The error showed a certificate issued for an AD related system and so I discovered... Continue Reading →
Have you ever wonder how to update the Nvidia vGPU vibs on your ESXi servers? In this case I updated an ESXi 7.0.3 to Nvidia vGPU 16.2. Get the version that is supported for your environment from Nvidia -> https://docs.nvidia.com/grid/ and store them on a storage you can access from each ESXi (Shared ISO datastore... Continue Reading →
If you have a home lab or a sealed off environment with no DNS in place, you can use the local hosts files of vCenter and ESXi to setup a "name service". You can use vi to edit the /etc/hosts file or to make it much easier use this command echo "192.168.0.1 esx01 esx01.domain.local" >>/etc/hosts... Continue Reading →
If you have a problem with the IPv6 multicast discovery during the VxRail initial cluster deployment, here´s another option!! You can add hosts via IP address by klicking the + button in the top right corner and add all hosts by IP Adress and root password. But first you need to configure the IP settings... Continue Reading →
One fact I discovered recently is that when you use 40GbE NIC for vMotion is that only a single vmkernel port can´t use the full 40gig potential. One VMkernel port will only bring 18 GbE throughput, the second VMkernel port increases the throughput up to 28 GbE and the third VMkernel port increases the performance to 36... Continue Reading →
What is the performance loss in the VMware Hypervisor after applying the patches to fix the Spectre & Meltdown issue? VMware released a KB article where you will be informed when they have results of their performance analysis. Spectre & Meltdown: VMware Performance Impact Subscribe the KB article to be up tp date 😉
VMware Security Advisory – VMSA-2018-0001 – vSphere Data Protection VMware Security Advisory - VMSA-2018-0001 -... I know you are all busy patching Meltdown and Spectre, but let's not forget about a security advisory that VMware released so early this year, on 2nd January 2018: VMSA-2018-0001 - vSphere Data Protection (VDP) updates address multiple security issues.... Continue Reading →
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