This is especially useful for SMB who don’t have large environments, and can’t throw resources at a vCenter Server This is what one of my vCenter Servers looked like recently To give some insight, this is a vCenter that manages around 3 hosts and 50 VMs. I quickly found a Read more…
My vCenter Server was acting up and throwing a bunch of random errors. When I started investigating it appeared that the C drive was out of space. Completely Out. Yeah, I guess I haven’t been a very good administrator…. So after a few minutes of some quick cleaning and getting Read more…
If you don’t know about Heartbleed yet…Well I don’t know what to say… I guess check this out. http://heartbleed.com/ Unfortunately, ESXi is susceptible to this The full kb is here from VMware http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2076665 Fortunately it can be patched with everyone’s favorite patch tool VMware Update Manager Now that I have Read more…
While working on getting my hosts properly patched, I found I couldn’t even do a scan on them. Alright so next I took a look at the esxupdate log on the host. Both of these correspond to a VMware kb found Here The cause as listed in the KB “This Read more…
Sometimes those hardware status Errors/Warnings do not want to clear even after you have fixed the issue In my case, I had a drive failed in a ESXi host that had 2 drives in Raid 1. No Biggie, just replace the drive. After replacing the drive and confirming everything was Read more…
If your vSphere environment has been around longer than a year or two, it is very possible you still have some datastores that are using VMFS 3.x. This in it of itself isn’t a bad thing, but you are missing out on some of the great features that came out in Read more…
Greetings!!! This is something I have been wanting to do for a while, but only recently where I actually had a need to complete it. At the core I wanted to be able to copy vcenter alarms from one vcenter to another. Currently there isn’t really a great way to Read more…
I have been doing a bunch of work with vCenter Alarms this past week or so and I have found a pretty neat way to find the Alarms that have been created by users. Or it’s possible everyone already knows this little trick and I am just last to figure Read more…
Most people know how to do this action in the standard vSphere Client, but doing the same steps in the Web Client is slightly different so I thought I would document them for everyone. This setting handles whether the snapshots are application-consistent or crash-consistent. Application-Consistent snapshots means that the snapshot Read more…
Changing the vCenter Database username and password isn’t a difficult task, although it very quickly becomes a bit convoluded. This is because you can’t just make the change in one place. It is made in several. To start and a very important step is to make the selected user a Read more…