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.…
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PowerShell workshop with Angry Admin – Security guide for ESXi
Today I will show you how to apply VMware security recommendation to ESXi hosts using PowerShell. The script is smart way check the hosts compliance and if any is not complaint them setting are applied. Please join me in this step-by-step video: Remember to subscribe to my YouTube channel as I am running competition, where…
Read moreHow to Change the IP Address of an ESXi Host – vmk0 management network – NO DOWNTIME
NOTE: Although host should have connectivity via second NIC, should something happen to that NIC one will lose host and VMs, so proceed with caution. PREREQUISITES: The host MUST have 2 NIC connected Port MUST be configured in trunk mode allowing mgmt VLAN Have a new IP ready Have new subnet mask ready Create new…
Read moreHow 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 to another host with local datastore. vMotion was failing for some reason and the only way to resolve it was to attach Simplivity to the target host. Here is my…
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