Lately I receive a quite few questions about how to update iDrac. Hence I decide to make this article. This article will show you how to update iDRAC7, iDRAC8 and iDRAC9 web interface. Before upgrade, you need to download the firmware image to a location on the local system: Go to DELL website and look…
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How to encrypt an existing Virtual Machine or Virtual Disk
Prerequisites: vCenter server must be configured and connected with the KMS server. Please refer to this article: How to connect vCenter with external KMS ESXi servers that will run encrypted VM’s must be allowed to communicate with KMS server over TCP. Create an encryption storage policy or use the bundled sample, VM Encryption Policy. Downtime…
Read moreHow to find iDrac IP Address from VMware ESXi
Solution was tested on both DELL and Cisco UCS boxes. SSH to ESXi hosts Log with root account Run the command lines shown below to get the idrac IP address: The iDRAC IP is displayed in the row “IPv4 Address”. The iDRAC IP is displayed in the row “IPv4 Address”. If you have a questions,…
Read moreVMware vCenter Server 7.0 Update 2c, VMware ESXi 7.0 Update 2c – overview.
Discontinuation of Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 1.2 in a future major vSphere release: VMware intends in a future major vSphere release to discontinue support of TPM 1.2 and associated features such as TPM 1.2 with TXT. To get full use of vSphere features, you can use TPM 2.0 instead of TPM 1.2. Support for TPM 1.2…
Read moreCannot copy files to host data.host. Check the management service status, network connectivity with vCenter and disk space on the host.
Oh boy, oh boy, what a bumpy ride I had with upgrading my vSphere environment form 6.5 version to 7.0.2. First I had issue with prolong boot on ESXi hosts, I wrote about this in this article providing solution, now after following workaround I upgraded to 7GA (generic version, first release) and wanted to run…
Read moreAfter 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 never return to vCenter. Status was Disconnected. I had to manually click on Connection -> connect. The booting process stuck on vmw_vaaip_symm loaded successfully On the small cluster it was…
Read moreWhat 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 though ? Reboot? Old firmware? Fortunately we can scroll down and have a look what the error is all about. As we can see there is an issue with VIBs.…
Read moreVxRail – 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 after reboot. From vCenter view the node 1 was in not responding state. From the iDrac of the node 1 view all NICs were down. Once I rolled back to 14.27.61.22…
Read moreESXi 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 create custom firewall ports you need to create XML file Command Description esxcli network firewall get Return the enabled or disabled status of the firewall and lists default actions. esxcli…
Read moreDO NOT clone ESXi boot devices!
Some of admins are keen to clone ESXi boot device in order to speed up the deployment. Please remember that this workflow is not at all supported by VMware. NOTE: After upgrading to ESXi 7.0U2, corruption can occur on VMFS datastores if the ESXi hosts sharing those LUNs had their boot devices cloned (84349) This…
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