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Upgrading your VMware ESXi host can be an exciting time for your organization, especially when you are upgrading from version 7.0.3 to the latest version 8.0. With new features, bug fixes, and performance improvements, the process can bring significant benefits to your virtual environment. However, the upgrade process can also bring unforeseen issues. In this blog post, we will explore some of the common issues that can arise during an
VMWare Workstation just popped-up this message to you when trying to start a VM? Then read further to find the fix. According to Microsoft – Many third-party virtualization applications don’t work together with Hyper-V. Affected applications include VMware Workstation and VirtualBox. These applications might not start virtual machines, or they may fall back to a slower, emulated mode. To make the VM start in VMWare Workstation, you have to disable
This morning I had to do an ESXi software upgrade within 1h service window. The ESXi Host was configured in a Cluster (3 Hosts) with vMotion active, but no DRS. I was able to move all the VMs running on the host to other hosts, except one. This VM was having an USB Dongle connected to it and stuck to the ESXi Host. The plan was to shut it down
Today I’ve decided to upgrade my VMWare LAB from version 6.7 to version 8. Even it is a straightforward process, I would like to share it, maybe it can help someone in some way. If you are having only a customer account at VMWare, you have to register first to be able to evaluate vSphere8. So looks my evaluations board on VMWare portal. After registering, you will be able to
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 as it was planned, I’ve started and quite soon, at the 3rd step of stage
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 cannot download files from VMware vSphere Update Manager patch store. Check the network connectivity and
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, but is always good to be prepared in case something goes wrong. Before starting the