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General / VMware / VMware vCenter
by Patrik Kernstock · Published 6. June 2021 · Last modified 5. July 2021
As part of a customer request we were in need to change the swap location to a different datastore, as the current datastore was about to be removed in the near future. This post is meant...
General / VMware / VMware vCenter
by Patrik Kernstock · Published 13. March 2021 · Last modified 9. April 2021
Recently vCenter 7.0 Update 2 was released to the public, with new features and improvements. For me one highlight was the introduction of the "vSphere Native Key Provider" (NKP): a native KMS (Key Management Server), or...
In addition to my piler installation guide this now focuses on updating an existing piler setup. Luckily this takes noticeable less time than the installation. If you don’t have piler up and running yet, check out...
General / Tips & Tricks / VMware / VMware vCenter
by Patrik Kernstock · Published 4. December 2020 · Last modified 6. January 2021
That post is more a quick note, in case someone ever needs this. There might be few very specific and rare situations where you might need the unique vCenter-Instance-UUID. In this case, you can get the...
Once there was a DRS-enabled cluster with a mystery: When trying to start a virtual machine, the very generic error Insufficient resources appeared. However further checking all hosts in the cluster reveals that there’re enough resources...
Recently I’ve seen more cases where the Lifecycle Manager in vCenter 7 fails syncing updates and pulling depot metadata. In this case you see an error like: An error occurred while downloading depot metadata from https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/addon-main/vmw-depot-index.xml.....
When attaching any kind of USB devices, the service usbarbitrator claims those devices to allow passing through USB devices into virtual machines. This is (one of) the reason you won’t see USB sticks as "Storage Devices"...
by Patrik Kernstock · Published 25. August 2020 · Last modified 9. April 2021
Want to update piler? Then you can check out my piler update guide. This is my installation guide for mailpiler I have written and optimized in the last days. If there are any questions or ideas,...
There was once… a customer who was concernced about the network-wise failover on the ESXi-level, which was not working as he expected it to. To shed some light on the complete scenario… Configuration The configuration is...
General / Tips & Tricks / VMware / VMware NSX-T
by Patrik Kernstock · Published 24. July 2020 · Last modified 5. March 2021
Due to some experiments with NSX-T 3.0 in my lab with ESXi 7.0 hosts I was in need removing the VIB files manually from the host, as the NSX Manager failed doing so. Just to be...
