My homelab boots off of cheap USB sticks and has done so since 2016. I easily upgraded my vCenter (VCSA […]
Tag: vSphere
vSphere 6 Network Port Diagram
VMware has published an updated network port diagram for vSphere 6 under KB2131180
New VMUG presentation posted
I posted today’s VMUG presentation in the VMUG section.
The parent virtual disk has been modified since the child was created
Some VMs in my environment had virtual-mode RDMs on them, along with multiple nested snapshots. Some of the RDMs were subsequently […]
Extending Citrix Cache Drives in vSphere
I have a large client running a Citrix XenDesktop farm on top of vSphere. The environment is using PVS to […]
vSphere Datastore Last Updated timestamp – Take 2
I referenced this in an earlier post, but we continue to have datastore alarm problems on hosts running 4.0U2 connected […]
Guest NICs disconnected after upgrade
We are upgrading our infrastructure to ESXi 4.1 and had an unexpected result in Development cluster where multiple VMs were […]
vSphere Datastore Last Updated timestamp
We encountered issues that mysteriously appeared after a patching window on our vCenter server. We had just upgraded to vCenter […]
vSphere workingDir configuration parameter erased by Storage vMotion
The workingDir parameter allows you to configure a specific datastore for VM snapshots. We attempted to configure the workingDir parameter […]
VMware Automatic HBA rescan
When you add a new datastore, vCenter initiates an automatic rescan on the ESX hosts in the cluster. This can […]