Piotr Tarnawski

vCenter Server 7.0.x Appliance /storage/log partition error. Partition full due to excessive pod-startup.log files

Lately I notice that the vmware-pod service will not start. Furthermore one can see /var/log/vmware/pod contains thousands of pod-startup.log.###### files. The /var/log/vmware/pod/pod-console.log contains the following errors: This issue occurs when…

SRM

SRM appliance, appliance no networking detected.

I was deploying VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) in order to upgrade my one from Windows to Virtual Appliance. Once Virtual Machine was deployed I…

ESXi

What to do if your baseline is incompatible?

During ESXi upgrade process on one of the cluster I saw that baseline which works fine everywhere else is incompatible! What would be your first…

vCenter

How to integrate vCenter HSM (DELL OpenMange) with vLCM (Lifecycle Management)

NOTE: This is for non-vSAN environment running Dell servers Using the Dell OpenManage integration with vLCM , we would create a desired state for image,…

PowerShell

PowerShell workshop with Angry Admin – how to power off and power on all VMs at host in one line code

Today I will show you how to power off and power on all VMs at host in one line code. Please join me in this…

vCenter

How to upload logs to VMware directly from vCenter

Today in this short video I will show you how to upload logs directly from vCenter to #VMware support.

Security Advisory

Security Advisory VMSA-2021-0014 (CVE-2021-21994, CVE-2021-21995)

IMPORTANT Security Advisory that was released earlier yesterday (13-07-2021) Security Advisory VMSA-2021-0014 VMware ESXi updates address authentication and denial of service vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-21994, CVE-2021-21995) with a maximum CVSSv3…

ESXi VxRail

VxRail – Mellanox driver version 14.28.45.12 compatibility issue with Finisar SFP

I have VxRail cluster version 7.0.100-26719865 and recommended version is 7.0.202-27047874. However once I run update it got corrupted as node 1 never boot up…

ESXi

ESXi ESXCLI Firewall Commands

You can use the ESXi Shell or ESXCLI commands to configure ESXi at the command line to automate a firewall configuration. NOTE: You can only manage predefined ports. To…

PowerShell