Don’t you just love it when something fails with an absolutely useless error message? Routine patching of a vCSA a while back (alright, two years back. Sometimes these things end up on the back burner!)
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Upgrade vCSA from 6.5 to 6.7 with CLI Installer
Or is it “automate all the things”? Here’s a run down of a little bit of both. CLI vCenter Server Appliance upgrades starts at the same place as with a GUI install. Download the vCSA
Read moreRemove Enhanced Link Mode vCenters from Inventory with cmsso-util
Setting up Enhanced Linked Mode is easy and almost mandatory for bigger environments; but what about when things go wrong? Dead vCenter instances in your inventory is, if nothing else, unsightly. Here’s how you can
Read moreDeploy VMware vCSA with CLI Installer
The whole point of a homelab is having an environment that’s detached from production and can be broken without consequence. Recently though, my homelab has become a bit more prod/DC/darling, why is the internet not
Read moreCreating a NAS on VMware ESXi with Nexenta
Nexenta NexentaStor is an enterprise grade NAS appliance that provides block (iSCSI) and file (SMB, NFS) services. It’s also great for homelabbers as a restricted ‘community’ edition is available, which makes for a great alternative
Read moreFixing vCenter Error: “Another task is already in progress”
I came across an odd issue for the first time in my lab. A Veeam backup failed to complete with one VM reporting the following- Error: Another task is already in progress
Read moreDeploy OVAs to vCenter with VMware OVF Tool
Try to deploy an OVA in vCenter 6.5 and you’ll likely see the following helpful little number- After some mucking about, I found a supported solution- VMware OVF Tool.
Read moreUpgrading vSphere from 6.0 to 6.5
This is a four step guide on the process of upgrading from vSphere 6.0 to 6.5. I’ve included all steps individually for those who aren’t taking advantage of the full vSphere suite. Part 1- Running
Read moreRunning the VMware VCSA Migration Assistant
This is part one in a four part series on upgrading to vSphere 6.5 You can find the rest of the series here You will receive the following error if running VMware Update Manager on
Read moreUpgrading from ESXi 6.0 to 6.5 with VCSA 6.5
This is part four in a four part series on upgrading to vSphere 6.5 You can find the rest of the series here This section of the tutorial will deal with the matter or upgrading
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