Troubleshooting Native Key Provider, vTPM, and Cluster Issues in VMware vSphere 8 If you're running a single bare-metal ESXi host with VMware vSphere 8.0 and planning to use vTPM or…
Home Lab Upgrade: VMware vSphere and vCenter from 7.x to 8.x – Issues & Challenges Background My home lab runs on a single Dell PowerEdge R720. The lab setup includes…
I was trying to upgrade VMware vCenter (VCSA) to v7.0U3 at my work using the command shell, I got an error while staging the ISO. OSError:[Error 28] No space left…
If you try to change / update DNS IPs on the ESXi host from within the vCenter , it will give an error " This operation cannot be performed while…
Background: Earlier this month I upgraded my production VMware vSphere environment from 6.7 U3 to 7.0.0. All the hosts in the cluster are HPE DL380 Gen10 server. I used HPE…
There are two ways you can upgrade ESXi hosts:- Upgrading ESXi using ESXCLI- Upgrading ESXi via VMware LifeCycle Manager. VMware Update Manager has been replaced with VMware Lifecycle Manager in…
vSphere 7 went GA on April 2, 2020 and it is a major release. I run ESXi on a single Dell R720 server and running nested ESXi hosts. Here is a link to my lab. Now checking VMWare compatibility…
I was getting VM display resolution of max 1280 x 800 only. Small console window and hard to work with. Resolution: Power off the VMIncrease the total video memory. I…
VMware infrastructure upgrade is one of the my 2019 first quarter goals. Upgrading vCSA and replace all the esxi hosts with the new hardwares. I am near completion. I am…
This article is for upgrading vCenter Appliance and ESXi 6.5 to 6.7 on internet disconnected environment. Login to https://my.wmware.com/ and download the following two files: VMware-VCSA-all-6.7.0-8546234.iso VMware-ESXi-6.7.0-8169922-depot.zip Always upgrade the…