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vSphere Web Client (Flash) no longer works with Firefox after upgrading from vCenter 6.0 to 6.5

Ioan Penu / April 28, 2020 / 1 Comment

We’ve just finished upgrading VMWare infrastructure from version 6.0 to version 6.5 and we’ve noticed that vSphere Web Client (Flash) is not working anymore with Firefox. After accessing vCenter IP Address, we select vSphere Web Client (Flash) as in the screenshot and we are getting the following error: “Error: Error #2134at com.vmware.flexutil.logging::StorageObjectWriter/initialize()at com.vmware.flexutil.logging::StorageObjectWriter$/getInstanceByName()at com.vmware.flexutil.logging::LocalStoreTarget/initialize() at […]

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How to add a USB Disk as VMFS Datastore in ESXi 6.7

Ioan Penu / April 26, 2020 / 37 Comments

After some time using VMWare Workstation as a playground for my VM home lab environment, and after learning and testing with VM ESXi Hosts, I decided that is time to move to a hardware lab. So I achieved, for the start, 2 servers for the ESXi hosts, and because there is no HDD on the

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How to enable EVC (Enhanced vMotion Compatibility) on VMWare cluster v6.0

Ioan Penu / March 27, 2020 / Leave a Comment

In today’s post we’ll see what is EVC, in which case is needed and how we can enable it on VMWare cluster. What is EVC Let’s see first what is EVC – source VMWare: EVC stands for Enhanced vMotion Compatibility. This is a vCenter cluster feature which simplifies vMotion compatibility issues across CPU generations. EVC

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VMWare: vCenter 6.5 Upgrade Fails with VIX error

Ioan Penu / March 13, 2020 / Leave a Comment

I had to upgrade vCenter from 6.0 to 6.5. It’s not the first one, I made a few recently cause we have a client with many sites that should be upgraded. Everything was good prepared or at least I was thinking so and I was ready to start. In the evening, after the working hours

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How to find a VM with PowerCLI by searching after IP address in vCenter

Ioan Penu / March 6, 2020 / Leave a Comment

A few days ago one of my colleagues called me and asked me to add 4 HDDs to a Windows VM. Then he e-mailed me the name of the VM. I said to him that it will be ready in a few minutes. Then I’ve connected to vCenter and look after the name. No VM

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How to enable execution of PowerShell scripts and enable VMWare vSphere PowerCLI.

Ioan Penu / March 4, 2020 / Leave a Comment

As a System Administrator, you can reduce sometimes a considerably amount of time by running PowerShell scripts across your Windows Systems. Most of the scripts that you find online will not run if you haven’t configured previously PowerShell, and will throw you an unpleasant error in red fonts.My Windows is in German, so the error

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VMWARE: How to reset a VM via SSH

Ioan Penu / February 27, 2020 / 1 Comment

Working with VMWare it’s a continues challenge, with new surprises every day, but fortunately, so far, only with happy endings. Let’s see today’s story. I am working for a client that has a vCenter with 6 ESXi hosts. In order to access it, I have to start a VPN, then connect to a Windows terminal

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VMWare Update Manager Error – VCSA 6.5: Host cannot download files from VMWare vSphere Update Manager patch store

Ioan Penu / February 17, 2020 / 4 Comments

After upgarding VCSA to version 6.5 at one of my clients, I’ve tried to upgrade also the ESXi Hosts. I’ve made the Baselines in VUM and attached them to the hosts. So far everything went smooth. After that I’ve scanned the hosts for updates and this is the moment when the error came up: “Host

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Importing OVA into VCSA 6.5 fails – The operation failed for an unknown reason

Ioan Penu / February 12, 2020 / Leave a Comment

I’ve experienced a problem while importing an OVA into VCSA 6.5. The error that I’ve got is the one bellow. As you can see it says that the problem occurs due to certificates that the browser does not trust. If you are checking the certificate in the web browser, you will see a certificate warning.

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Add a SD Card in VMWorkstation

Ioan Penu / February 3, 2020 / 1 Comment

Why I need to do this?! Because I’ve made a backup of a RPi’s SD Card to a Linux VM and now I would like to restore the created image file back to the SD Card. For the moment I’m doing this only to see how should be made, my RPi still works very good,

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