How to free up space on VMware vCenter Appliance
vCenter is an appliance. It's a purpose built, hardened *nix appliance that can be something of a black box to some. When there are operational issues with the…
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vCenter 6.7 Upgrade failing during pre-checks on Stage 2. [Internal Error]
While doing a standard vCenter appliance upgrade from 6.0GA to 6.7U3, I ran into some weird issues. The deployment of the new appliance in Stage 1 went smoothly…
Using PowerShell to log into VMware vSphere Web Client
If you are running VMware vSphere 6.5 or above, you have been forced to adopt the web client for your administration of vSphere. The full windows client has…
No patches showing up for VMware vCenter Appliance–FIXED
I think I experienced an edge case issue where one of my client’s vCenter Appliances wasn’t showing any available patches to install. This was a 6.7.12000 version of…
Migrating Windows Based vCenter to VMware Virtual Appliance 6.7 Walk Through
All of my new implementations are running VMware’s vCenter Virtual Appliance. It is SOO easy to deploy and includes everything you need for your infrastructure including Update Manager. …
The end of the External VMware PSC.
If you are still running an external Platform Services Controller (PSC), the clock is ticking on it. A recent VMware architecture blog (VMware vSphere Blog) written by Emad…
Considering upgrading to vSphere 6.7? I’d wait a few months …
VMware vSphere 6.7 was dropped while I was out in Atlanta for EMPOWER and I was pretty stoked to upgrade some environments to it at the time. The…
Still running vSphere 5.5? Get with it Man!
October is here – The countdown clock has started. You now officially have 11 months to get off vSphere 5.5 and upgrade to something supported. VMware is End…
SRM Upgrade issues
Recently I processed a pretty straightforward Site Recovery Manager and vCenter Migration and Upgraded that really went sideways on me. Certificates somehow got blew out and Site Recovery…