Author: Piotr Tarnawski

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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…

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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:…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Must have!

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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…

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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…

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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…

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The wind of changes

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