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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' has a backing type that is...
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 as a quick note in case...
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 now also called "Key Provider". This...
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 instanceUuid in following configuration file /etc/vmware-vpx/instance.cfg:...
VMware Horizon 7.10 – released on September 17, 2019 – ships with a new dynamic encoder. Depending on what content you’re watching to in your VDI, it will seamless switch to the best suiting codec for optimal performance/quality-balance. While H.264 is ideal...
The new Log Insight 8.0 release brings some cool new things: The OS of the whole appliance is replaced with Photon OS 3.0 instead of SUSE (in-place update possible!), the Windows agent is being open-sourced and brings various improvements to content packs....
How to change the IP address of a VMware vRealize Log Insight node? Glad you asked! I’ve done this change a few weeks earlier to be able to take use of the recommended "Integrated Load Balancer" (in short ILB) while re-using the...
Am 15. November 2016 veröffentlichte VMware eine neue Version von VMware vRealize Operations Manager 6.4 (kurz: vROPS) mit Verbesserungen, neuen Dashboards und auch eine Unterstützung für das ebenfalls neue vSphere 6.5. Genaueren Release Notes finden sich hier. Neugierig wie ich bin, wollte ich gleich...
Standardmäßig kann die Bash-Shell der VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 nur für maximal 86400 Sekunden – also 24 Stunden – aktiviert werden. Nach dem Ablauf wird die Bash-Shell wieder deaktiviert und die eingebaute limitierte “ApplianceSh”-Shell verwendet. In älteren VCSA 6.0-Versionen gab es...
Durch die Umstrukturierung meiner privaten IT-Umgebung Zuhause wollte ich zugleich meine vorhandene VMware ESXi-Installation auf meinem HP MicroServer Gen8 aktualisieren: Nämlich von der Version 5.5 Update 1 auf 5.5 Update 2. Als Installationsmedium kam die von HP angebotene ESXi-ISO mit den dazupassenden Treibern zum...
