Paul Bryant Have you ever been trying to vMotion a VMWare virtual machine but get an error that prevents you because the VM is attempting to install VMWare Tools? Has this ever occurred when trying to put a host into Maintenance Mode? Are you looking for a quick way to vMotion the VM? Below I have the … Read more
Every year I weigh the pains of travel vs the networking and knowledge gains of attending VMWorld. Majority of the time the pain doesn’t outweigh the benefits. However, due to COVID-19 VMWare will be making VMWorld virtual this year. I must admit this may get me to attend VMWorld for the first time in three … Read more
As many of you are aware VMware recently came out with a CVE: CVE-2020-3952 that requires taking your existing VMWare vCenter to 6.7 U3f or 7.0. Since going from 6.7 to 7.0 requires a re-deploy of the vCenter I thought doing an in place upgrade would be the quickest way to fix this security vulnerability. … Read more
VMWare just posted this advisory:https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2020-0006.html vCenters affected:vCenter Server 6.7 (embedded or external PSC) prior to 6.7u3f is affected by CVE-2020-3952. Only if it was upgraded from previous versions 6.0 or 6.5. Clean installations of vCenter Server 6.7 (embedded or external PSC) are not affected. KB to determine if your vCenter is affected:https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/78543 Resolution:Upgrade to 6.7U3f … Read more
I was fortunante enough to be selected by TechTarget for quotes on VMWare NSX-T 3.0 new features. It is truly a humbling honor to have been able to provide some details. Please find the link below. https://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/news/252481484/NSX-T-30-enriches-VMwares-offering-for-hybrid-IT
I haven’t had to change the time on a VMWare ESXi server in a while but the opportunity presented itself today. I thought I would publish this quick article as a refresher. Check current date and time:#date Base Syntax #esxcli system time set-H for Hour-m for Minute-M for Month-s for Second-y for Year If I … Read more
Have you ever acquired hardware for a new project that gets killed or moved to the cloud? Has it ever been end of year for a vendor and you acquire additional hardware for future projects? Have you ever been approaching your end of quarter/year and you still have funds that need spent from your budget … Read more
One of the things I enjoy about VMWare vRealize Operations is the ability to add or remove HCI nodes in a cluster. I don’t know if I have been fortunate or unfortunate in my career but I have had to do a lot of VxRail/vSAN Ready Node adds. On some occasions I have been requested … Read more
I thought I would take a moment to write an article on an exercise that happened to me recently. Recently, I was requested to see if a new project could go on an existing VxRail/vSAN cluster. My trusty tool I like to go to for a quick answer, pretty visuals, and costs matrix is vROPs. … Read more
Today I was selected into the vExpert Cloud Mgmt & NSX programs. This is truly an honor and I cannot thank everyone who helped make this possible. Thank you everyone once again. Summary:Once again thank you to VMWare for the trust they have placed in me. This is truly an honor. This also keeps inspiring … Read more
VMWare quoted me in their recent article on the 15 Habits of an Innovative IT leader. This was truly a great honor. You can find the article in the below URL:https://www.vmware.com/radius/it-leaders-innovative-habits/ Summary:Once again I cannot thank VMWare enough for this honor.
Recently while working in my environment I uncovered a known issue and a KB article with a resolution and work around. Here is a step by step of the applied work around. I applied the immediate work around to avoid a vCenter crash, which is never a good thing. Error:Alarm ‘Host hardware sensor state’ on … Read more
In the past I have spoken about needing to remove mounted ISOs from VMs prior to a VxRail upgrade. I have had many people DM me asking if I use a script or do it manually. First, it would only be possible in a small environment to manually remove mounted ISO files or in environments … Read more
Have you ever been writing a PowerShell or PowerCLI script and wished you could see what would happen if you executed the script just to confirm everything is working properly? Have you ever been been performing single commands that modify the environment and you want to ensure the mod you want is the one applied? … Read more
I know this one should be real basic but sometimes we forget the basics. Have you ever stood up a new environment, installed PowerShell, PowerCLI, imported your favorite scripts and when to execute and got a permission error. Were you rusty on how to change permissions to give yourself the capability to run scripts? Here … Read more
In the last couple of weeks due to a bug that was fixed, I had split brain on a host. Every time, I would place a particular host into maintenance mode it would begin to move VMs to other hosts in the cluster. However, I would get a couple VMs that would flp between hosts … Read more
While i was standing up a new engineering box I needed to install PowerCLI. I figured since I am writing a lot more these days I would show real quick how to install PowerCLI from Powershell. Site for documentation:https://code.vmware.com/web/tool/11.5.0/vmware-powercli Command:Install-Module VMware.PowerCLI -Scope CurrentUser If PowerCLI is already installed and you want to update add the … Read more
Have you ever gotten an alarm on your VxRail Manager with some strange code like VXR124003 and wonder what does this mean? I thought I would take a moment and post the VxRail event codes below as well as publish the link to the DellEMC support site. DellEMC Support site URL:https://support.emc.com/docu91469_VxRail-Appliance-4.5.x-and-4.7.x-Event-Code-Reference.pdf?request=akamai Summary: As always I hope … Read more
Recently, I was asked if there was a way to extend the boot time to give an end user time to access the BIOs because they needed to make changes to the config. It has been a minute since I have had to do this so I thought I would write a refresher blog with … Read more
I was recently asked for a quick way to edit all and individual objects in vSAN 6.7 U3. I thought I would put together a quick how to for quick storage policy changes. **Remember, certain changes in storage policies will trigger a resync on the backend, IE changing RAID types. Step by Step: Right click … Read more
