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This is just a quick note about something I’ve came across a few weeks ago. Here I was facing the following error when enabling enabling Fault Tolerance on one or more virtual machine: Device 'Ethernet 1'...
Tutorial/Guide / VMware / VMware Tanzu / VMware vCenter
by Patrik Kernstock · Published 22. June 2021
When enabling WCP (Workload Platform) on your vSphere cluster, by default 3 SupervisorControlPlaneVMs (SV) will be deployed. (Those VMs are also sometimes referred as "agents") Those VMs contain a Kubernetes cluster used to: provision your pods...
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...
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.....
