Following on from my previous post showing a backup report for the past three or four days, another element of the same report that I produce is to list out the virtual machines that are excluded from the backups and their reason. This uses the VMware Tag capability… basically, any virtual machine that you want to be excluded from the […]
Just to confirm that I am, by no means, a Powercli (PowerShell) expert and would still class myself as a novice. With this in mind there are probably tips and better ways to perform some of the items involved in my scripts… but the items that I have done seem to work for me and may help someone else in […]
Firstly let me apologise for not posting much recently, my work has been quite hectic and therefore my blog has had to miss out. I have a number of items to post up and hopefully over the next few days, I’ll start to get these up. This post is about how to deploy a new vCenter v6 VCSA (vCenter Server […]
Although the following process in itself will not enable those buttons directly again, it will allow you to perform an update of the appliance from a command line… which should enable those buttons again after the update is completed. This method should also only be performed for a minor update to the appliance… I’ll write a slightly different post on […]
Once again I am pleased to have been announced as one of the vExperts as part of the 2015 vExpert Program. The full list of vExperts for 2014 and 2015 is available here: http://blogs.vmware.com/vmtn/
For a summary of the announcements, taken from my live text feed during the presentation, see this link: http://virtualworlduk.co.uk/vmware-one-event-live-feed/
This is an unusual situation that I came across today, the exact issue that I faced was related to an issue with a Riverbed Steelfusion appliance but could easily happen to a normal VMware environment. With Riverbed Steelfusion, we present out a LUN to a remote location as iSCSI… this remote location creates the datastore etc. as with a normal […]
Building on my previous post linking to the knowledgebase article on the VMware build numbers, I thought that it would also be useful to provide a listing of the versions. My intention is to update this listing when the main document is updated. This information is taken from the knowledgebase article as of: 15th October 2014 Converter Standalone / Enterprise […]
This is a Knowledgebase Article that I have bookmarked and use quite often, especially when determining what patch level you are on with things like ESXi. If you look in vCenter or directly on the ESXi server, you will simply see the product build number… something like: 1746018 for an ESXi host and you know roughly that it is ESXi […]
If you have had any issues with storage failing then you may have seen this issue – the virtual machines appear in vSphere as being ‘Unknown‘ and ‘(inaccessible)‘, as seen in the image. Usually if the storage comes back up and the host has the storage rescanned then these will revert back to their correct name and the everything is fine […]