Author: Piotr Tarnawski
How to determine if my virtual machines have a USB controller attached and how to remove it?
In the wake of recent published VMSA-2022-0004 admins can wonder how to determine if Virtual Machine has a USB controller attached. Now thanks to PowerCLI it…
Critical Severity – VMSA-2022-0004 – VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion
Multiple vulnerabilities in VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion were privately reported to VMware. Updates are available to remediate these vulnerabilities in affected VMware products. These issues…
VxRail: Unusual recommended upgrade sequence for 7.0.320
As we know by now, performing a vCenter upgrade to version 7.0 U3c will trigger a new pre-check before vCenter is updated. This pre-check will…
Unable to log in to VAMI with root user via GUI
I was preparing vCenter for an upgrade to vSphere 7 Update 3c and needed to access VAMI, however, I was not able to log in…
vSphere Lifecycle Manager Failed to Prepare NSX-T Cluster
Login to NSX node On the NSX Manager, go to System → Fabric → Nodes → Host Transport Node. From the Managed by drop-down menu, select the vCenter Server. Identify…
Where is vCenter Converter / Standalone Converter?
vCenter Converter Standalone is a product to convert virtual and physical machines to VMware. virtual machines. You can also configure existing virtual machines in your vCenter Server…
PowerCLI 12.5 – What’s New – Get-VIApplianceService
The new version of PowerCLI has been released by VMware in January. It contains a bunch of new features with one particularly interesting cmdlet Get-VIApplianceService….
Run the pre-check python script before upgrading vCenter Server 7.0 to Update 3c
Upgrading to vCenter Server 7.0U3c now requires an additional precheck to ensure that the ESXi Hosts managed by your vCenter Server are at the correct…
vCenter Server 7.0 Update 3c has been released.
Finally, VMware released a new update for vCenter Server addressing all the issues documented in KB86281, also including Apache log4j version 2.17. IMPORTANT: VMware removed ESXi…
FIX: After upgrade PowerCLI to 12.5 there is no Get-VIApplianceService Command
You may come accross that after updating your PowerCLI module to version 12.5, you cannot run Get-VIApplianceService command. Even that your modules shows correct version….
