Author: Piotr Tarnawski
vSphere 7 – How to change the FQDN and IP (PNID) Address of vCenter Server Appliance
There is a new feature in vSphere 7 allowing admins to change FQDN and IP of vCenter Server Appliance, the feature for which I personally…
vROps cert thumbprint and trust issue
After renewing certificate for one on my vCenters and refreshing connection with vROps, I was not able to re-connect NSX appliance. The error messages was:…
How to find object’s internal ID in vROps
Go to Administration tab and click on Inventory. Select from the inventory pane object you are interested in. 3. Click the “columns” icon toward the…
Transfer failed: IO error during transfer : java.io.EOFException: Unexpected EOF read on the socket
That error was a bummer. I was trying to deploy Dell SRS. When I received error: Transfer failed: IO error during transfer : java.io.EOFException: Unexpected…
vCenter Server Managed Object Browser (MOB) reports a 503 Service Unavailable error
If you cannot access the vCenter Server Managed Object Browser (MOB) at https://vCenterFQDN/mob/ and your browser shows this error: 503 Service Unavailable but all other services…
How to upgrade VMware vRealize Operations Manager
Take a snapshot of your current vROPs VM before running the upgrade The upgrade assessment tool (APUAT) generates 2 types of reports: The first report…
How to uninstall SimpliVity plug-in form vCenter
After successful decommission of HPE Simplivity, time came to uninstall vCenter plug-in. Here is my runlist: SSH to vCenter server If you do not see…
How to add SimpliVity datastore to standard ESXi server
But why one may ask… I came across this issue once I was actually decommissioning SimpliVity cluster and I had to vMotion all Virtual Machines…














