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The vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) upgrade from 6.0 to 6.5 is a slick, well managed, process. The installer deploys a new appliance, transfers all the settings from the old one (including IP address and identity) and then powers the old appliance VM off. This provides a neat roll-back option if something has gone …
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Wednesday morning and VMworld continues…
Here’s a look at my sessions from another day in Barcelona.
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The vCSA Log file disk was triggering a warning.
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A new version of VMware vSphere, 6.5, will be released shortly
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With ESXi 6.0 update 2 we were treated to a HTML-based web host client. This meant we were no longer confined to using the Windows (“C++”) client for host management, however it was still necessary to use the Flash-based web client for managing a vCenter infrastructure. The vSphere HTML5 Web Client is the …
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This PowerShell one liner looks at all the powered on Virtual Machines in a vCenter estate and returns the total memory allocated, rounded to the nearest GB.
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Symptoms
A VMware administrator has been tidying up an old ESX host prior to decommissioning and has accidentally clicked
Deleteon a shared datastore rather thanUnmount.
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