Yesterday, 2021-03-02, i ran into a problem where one ESXi server didn’t sync it’s time with the NTP server configured. It was lagging approximately 2h, 22min & 15sec. Current UTC was 07:51:55 when it should have been 10:13 The well known command esxcli is your friend if doing this via command line via SSH. trying …
Yesterday, 2018-05-03, VMware released an update to vSphere 6.5 meaning the latest release is now vSphere 6.5 Update 2. This is little more than two weeks since the vSphere 6.7 release and some features from vSphere 6.7 are backported to 6.5 U2. The most important things is vCenter Server single instance solution meaning no more …
Session “Troubleshooting vSphere 6 Made Easy: Expert Talk – INF9205R” was presented by Ragavendra Kumar who works as a Technical Support Supervisor at VMware and Abhilash Kunhappan who is a Staff Technical Support Engineer at VMware. The following areas were covered: vCenter Server ESXi Server Network Storage The session included both methodology & actually tips and …
There are certain key combinations and commands I find more difficult to remember than others. I wrote about Send F Key to VMware Fusion via MacBook Keyboard and the next in line is routing for ESXi. This is not something i do very often but It happens from time to time. I will not go into …
Today i experienced an ESXi host, version 6.0 U1a, being disconnected from vCenter Server. I did try to connect direct to the ESXI host using the ESXi host embedded client, the vSphere Client and SSH without any success. The last attempt was to use the IPMI connection and that screen showed me the following: That is …
Last week i received a question about howto find the VMware ESXi installation date. Actually nothing i have thought about before and my initial thought was to verify this via the date you receive when running the following command: esxcli software vib list | grep -i base I ran the above command in my home …
So the other day a had a very unpleasant experience when adding a few new ESXi hosts, version 5.5 U2 including the latest patch, to an existing vCenter Server (5.5 U2e) vNetwork Distributed switch (VDS). I used the wizard in the vSphere web client and followed the recommendation but i guess i could have made …
A couple of months ago i did a vSphere implementation where the back end storage system were presented to the vSphere environment via NFS. Since my move to Nutanix this will be more common and basically the only option today when performing vSphere implementations. Nutanix presents storage to Hyper-V via SMB and to KVM via iSCSI so …