VCF Host stuck in “Deactivating”
We had a dead host in our environment which needed a reinstall due to a failed boot drive. So we needed to remove the host from the Workload domain. We…
We had a dead host in our environment which needed a reinstall due to a failed boot drive. So we needed to remove the host from the Workload domain. We…
We ran into an issue where our remote collectors only worked for a couple days and after that we had to reset (reboot) them to start collecting again. Instead of…
The quickest way to recover from a expired vCenter root password in a VCF environment is too connect to the vcenter with SSH and it will prompt you to enter…
VMware just released this exciting new subscription model for vSphere and vSAN and i decided to look up some information about it and came across this awesome blogpost from William…
Trying to upgrade to 6.6.0 from 6.2.0 in one shot unfortunately is not allowed... so i downloaded 6.4.0 and gone ahead and installed that first. Update took about an hour…
I got a question from a colleague if we could export the disk information of a certain vm which had 37 vmdk's and they needed the size and names of…
I was in need of a way to check if a VM is placed in 2 DRS groups so i made a little script to read out the vm cluster…
Last couple of days i have been making some small but very usefull "scripts" to perform some tedious tasks where i did not feel like clicking in the GUI to…
Something i struggled with in the past is setting the productlocker, hassle with scripts and ssh and avoiding host reboots. Today we had to configure another 20 hosts with this…
I needed to get more insight into what is happening with resyncs on vSAN cluster for my customer so i decided to look to vROPS to get that and this…