Licensing: vSAN is licensed separately from ESXi and vCenter. You must obtain a separate license and decide which tier you need. More info here. For the most part, all you...
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Everyone knows how to move, clone or copy a virtual machine using the vSphere wizard. In this quick example, I am going over a feature that is extremely useful and…
This is a quick one, but a Google search of this problem yields no results. I recently ran into an issue installing ESXi 6.5 hanging on a Dell PowerEdge r720….
I ran into this problem with a fresh install of ESXi 6.5u1. This is a known issue with the specific version of the embedded client. Version 1.21 is the broken…
Starting with vCenter 6.5, there are a couple of new steps required for deployment; here is a brief summary. For this deployment we are using the latest 6.5 VCSA, which…
Working on internal patching, I ran into an issue when attempting to upgrade vCenter 6.0 to 6.5. In the past, migrating from Windows-based vCenter to Linux-based Virtual Center Server Appliance…
Have you reinstalled an ESXi host after carefully documenting its network configuration only to find that your storage, management, and network ports are all mixed up? Here is how to...
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Cannot Complete Login Error Just this week I ran into an interesting issue with a brand new ESXi server deployment. After installing 6.0 on a new host and setting up…
Here’s a quick pointer to remember when you create virtual switches in a VMware environment that is clustered with multiple hosts. Make sure that the Network Label for each vSwitch…
I want my data back! I recently encountered an unpleasant surprise when attempting to migrate a couple of Amazon Linux AMI instances from AWS. My goal was to download a…
