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 […]
How to add a USB Disk as VMFS Datastore in ESXi 6.7 Read Post »
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
How to enable EVC (Enhanced vMotion Compatibility) on VMWare cluster v6.0 Read Post »
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
VMWare: vCenter 6.5 Upgrade Fails with VIX error Read Post »
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
How to find a VM with PowerCLI by searching after IP address in vCenter Read Post »
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
How to enable execution of PowerShell scripts and enable VMWare vSphere PowerCLI. Read Post »
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
VMWARE: How to reset a VM via SSH Read Post »
If you are a System Administrator who has to comply your company’s systems with the security requirements asked by the latest standards and regulations, or just wants to better protect these systems, you will find in this post some info in regard to password configuration. We’ll see together how to enforce a password policy by
Change Password Complexity and Password Minimum Length settings in Windows Server 2012 Read Post »
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
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.
Importing OVA into VCSA 6.5 fails – The operation failed for an unknown reason Read Post »
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,
Add a SD Card in VMWorkstation Read Post »