Piotr Tarnawski

PowerCLI: Enable/Disable SSH and Lockdown Mode

Today I will show you quick and easy way to enable and disable SSH and Lockdown mode for all hosts in the cluster. Let’s start…

ESXi

After upgrading to ESXI 7.0 update 2 , the reboot process is Extremely slow boot

On one of my clusters (with over 30 hosts) it took literally six and half hours for one host to get back online. Furthermore they…

SRM

SRM 8.4 Appliance – clean installation and configuration

Today I will show you how to perform clean installation and configuration of Site Recovery Manager 8.4. The process of this is pretty straight forward….

NSX-T

VMware NSX-T Data Center 3.x – Load Balancer on a NSX-T environment stop working

If you came across the issue with accessing the backend servers via the Load Balance or it is taking several seconds to display the backend…

vCenter

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.

UPDATE for SRM 8.X and 9.X! *********************************************************************************************************** As the useful tool /opt/vmware/share/vami/vami_config_net is no longer available in these versions, you can use the following command…

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