We installed a brand new vSphere 8 Lab with VSAN, NSX and enabled Tanzu. Now we want to activate the vLCM (vSphere Lifecycle Manager) Image and ran into the following Issue: Payload of unsupported Workload Management solution has been identified on the following host(s): vmw8-esx01.xyz.lab, vmw8-esx02.xyz.lab, vmw8-esx03.xyz.lab, vmw8-esx04.xyz.lab Solution needs to be disabled.
Recently I changed my vCenter Certificate. But the AutoDeploy Service didn’t learned the new vCenter Certificate. So I got errors in /var/log/vmware/rbd/rbd-syslog.log
Recently we installed a brand new UCS System with 6454 Fabric Interconnects attached to Cisco MDS Fibre Channel Switches. But we get into some trouble with FirbeChannel Ports and their PortChannels.
Recently I upgraded my vCenter 6.7 U3 to vCenter 7.0 U1. During this upgrade, my Auto Deploy configuration was not adopted correctly.
Recently I upgraded my vCenter from Version 6.7 U3 17138064 to Version 7.0 U1. During deployment I hit the first issue.
I think most of you have a set of various PowerCLI Scripts that runs automatically day by day. Have you ever checked if your older scripts contain some deprecated commands? Here is a handy way to check …
A short wrapup to the latest Intel security leaks for VMware Administrators: CVE-2018-3639 aka Speculative Store Bypass (SSB), Variant 4 CVE-2018-3640 aka Rogue System Register Read (RSRE), Variant 3a. Once again we have to patch the whole stack: Update vCenter CPU Microcode (BIOS Update) VMware ESXi Hypervisor Patch Check if the new CPU flags are mapped to a new VM All VMs – Shutdown and start (reboot is not enough!) Update Guest OS Get some hints about EVC-Mode and how…
The last days we got two new All-Flash Storage Systems. These systems can present LUNs in a Metro-Cluster fashion. So I got the challenge to configure the Storage Plugin UltraPath from Huawei. In the manual from Huawei is explained how to configure the settings with esxcli on the ESXi-Host. That’s fine, but not enough 😉 We want to configure this with PowerCli to easily manage more than one Host. #get esxcli $esxcli2 = Get-ESXCLI -VMHost (Get-VMhost MyHost-001) -V2 #show…
The last days I tried to upgrade my UCS Domain from 2.2.7(c) to 2.2.8(g). I have two UCS Domains. One of them went through the upgrade fine, the other one not :/ See what happend and how we fixed it …
The last Days I want to create a Port Channel between my UCS Chassis and my MDS Switch. See how to configure and get some hints.