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vSphere 6.x Observed IP range
Way back when I wrote about the “Observed IP Range” information reported for physical NICs in v5 hosts. I noted among other things that the field seems to be populated by a process that runs at boot time or when … Continue reading
vCenter Replication 5.5 appliance install
Time to play with a tool that was updated for 5.5 – vSphere Replication. It comes (as is quickly becoming the norm) as a downloaded appliance that hooks into the vSphere Web Client for management and lets you schedule block-level … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud, Computing, Storage, Virtualization, VMware Tagged 5.5, ESXi, replication, srm, vSphere 5 Comments
Patch ESXi 5.x manually
KB 2008939sums it up nicely, but if you get an error like this while manually adding patched to an ESXi 5.x host: / # esxcli software vib install -d ./ESXi510-201210001.zip [MetadataDownloadError] Could not download from depot at zip:/var/log/vmware/ESXi510-201210001.zip?index.xml, skipping ((‘zip:/var/log/vmware/ESXi510-201210001.zip?index.xml’, … Continue reading
vSphere 5.1 – using previous templates
I just started playing with 5.1, having upgraded my Workstation 9 environment over the weekend. One of the first things I noticed was I could no longer convert a pre-5.1 template back to a virtual machine.
vCenter 5 U1b released (Updated)
[Update] As mentioned in the comments below, the bug shown here was fixed in a previous release (apparently U1) of the vSphere client. The trick seems to be the bug only existed in the client and unlike previous versions the … Continue reading
Posted in Computing, Storage, Virtualization, VMware Tagged ESXi, troubleshooting, vSphere 9 Comments
Automating your vSphere Demo environment with a vmrun batch file
I was tasked to build a reusable, portable vSphere 5 lab to mimic a production environment. The idea was to use it as a repeatable demo customers can interact with. I built the environment on my 2-year old Lenovo W510 … Continue reading
vSphere5: Setting the Observed IP Range
Update: I found a new free method. Assuming you have Windows, run “ping xxx.xxx.xxx.255 -t” (or whatever the broadcast IP is for your subnet – try the online calculator if you’re not sure). The result is identical to the pay-for tool above. Note … Continue reading
Posted in Computing, Network, Virtualization, VMware Tagged ESXi, IP, networking, vSphere 2 Comments
Un-Auto-Deployed-ed
I had a system this week that was having issues with AutoDeploy, so I decided to uninstall and reinstall it. Uninstall went fine but the reinstall gave me a “The service is already registered with specified vCenter Server” message. … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud, Computing, Virtualization, VMware Tagged Autodeploy, ESXi, vmware, vSphere 2 Comments
Shooting yourself in the foot is bad (Where are my swap files?)
vSphere by default stores vswap files (the files used when your host runs out of physical memory to allocate) with the local machines. However, you can choose (on a per VM or per-host basis) to direct all swap files to … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud, Computing, Storage, Virtualization, VMware Tagged configuration, ESXi, storage, swap, troubleshoot, vSphere5 Leave a comment
Extensions of Raw
I’ve seen some docs and data out there that exhibit confusion over the file extension for an RDM file, describing it as .rdm.vmdk or -rdm.vmdk or other variations. A quick ls from a VM with a RDM shows: there is … Continue reading
Posted in Computing, Storage, Virtualization, VMware Tagged ESXi, rdm, storage, vSphere5 Leave a comment
