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The best and greatest version of vSphere is finally here! Instead of listing down all the new features, I’ll be focusing on one new feature per article. Have you tried managing multiple vCenter environments with different versions of templates spread across different sites? .. I do and it’s a nightmare. Looking for that one good version across different sites is painful. In the past, you had to resort to

Recently experienced PSOD issue on one of my clients. Turns out it was because of the out-dated emulex driver included with ESXi installer. KB for the issue is already public and you can find more information here: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2072254 How to know if your vulnerable: esxcli software vib list | grep -i elxnet If your version is below: 10.0.783.13, you need to update!

Got the following error from one of our Customer. They were running Linux. Googled around and it turns out – the VMware Tools didn’t install completely. It missed creating tools.conf. To get around this, create the following file: tools.conf [logging] log = true # Enable tools service logging to vmware.log vmsvc.level = debug vmsvc.handler = vmx # Enable new “vmusr” service logging to vmware.log vmusr.lev

Are you using HP Server? This is because of out-dated HP Management Agent. Resolution: Update HP Management Agent in the esxi OR Stop it completely. /etc/init.d/hp-ams.sh stop

I just rebuild my home-lab to vSphere 5.5 U2. After setting up the syslog, I noticed 30+ messages popping up coming from my ESXi hosts. It turns out, the default logging level on the hosts is configured as verbose. Normally, this should be perfectly okay especially if you have a syslog server appliance that can make good use of it (eg. LogInsight, splunk) Unfortunately for me, a homelab user, this is eating up both o

Over the weekend, I wanted to try VMware’s SDN solution: NSX… and being the lazy guy that I am- i didn’t read any documentations before going thru the installation. As result – installation wasn’t pretty. Here are the things that stopped me during the setup: IP Pools for the Network Controller not being deployed The IP Pool should relate to the dvPort Group that you chose. Also, the IP s

Official link and information below: https://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/vsphere-beta

With the advent of high capacity machines (1TB RAM, 4×10 CPU)  – consolidation ratio is at its all time high. Unfortunately, maximum/ limitation of other components would easily be reached. One good example: we recently experienced VM’s suddenly disconnecting -NICs getting unchecked- from Nexus1000v. We verified there were a lot of free ports left on the 1000v. After hours of troubleshooting, we fina

I’ve been using Linuxmint environment for about a month now (hey!) and here’s quick guide on how to install PIP for python3. The default interpreter for Ubuntu based distro is python 2.x. so if you want to install packages on the python3 interpreter you need to uses pip3. Here’s a quick guide on how to install it: 1. Install python3 setup tools sudo apt-get install python3-setuptools 2. Install pip