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When updating to vCenter Server 7.0 Update 1, you may see error in the Skyline Health, telling you something like this: “When you perform a Reconfigure for VMware HA operation on the primary node in an HA cluster, an unexpected…
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Running the newest build of VCSA 7.0.1 from Dec. 17 2020, I could not login to the VAMI page: https://<venterfqdn>:5480 It instantly wrote “Unable to Login” After some digging around and rebooting, I found this article: After updating vCSA to…
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In vSphere 7 Update 1, vSphere Clustering Service (vCLS) was introduced, it basically provides DRS and HA even if vCenter server is down, cool 🙂 Read all about it here: vSphere 7 Update 1 – vSphere Clustering Service (vCLS) –…
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VMWARE has released vSphere 7 offering a lot of new and great features: Read more about it here: https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/vsphere-7 https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/rn/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-70-release-notes.html How to upgrade: As always, start by downloading the ISO from my.vmware.com and mount this on a Windows server in…
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When updating your ESXi host through esxcli to a newer version, in my ex. from u2 to u3, I got this error, when running this command; esxcli software profile update -p ESXi-6.7.0-20191204001-standard -d https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml And the error: [InstallationError] [Errno 28]…
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When you setup Vmware Vcenter Server Appliance , it will default expires your root password for it, if you do not schedule a reset, it will eventually lock you out, showing this, when you login to http://vcenter.domain.local:5480: This message will…
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When you are performing an upgrade from vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 to 6.7, you may see this, after you have filled out, all the details about the source server: As you double check, you found out, that all infos you have…
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VMWARE released vSphere 6.7, getting a lot of new functions and improvements, this also gives us a new vCenter Server Appliance. In many smaller setups, we run what is called and embedded appliance, where all vSphere vCenter Server funtionalites coexist…
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When triyng to scan og remediate hosts, you may get errors saying that hosts cannot be updated in the event log, but nothing more, a quick and easy fix is to reset the update manage db and the patch store:…
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When updating a ESXI HOST with esxcli, you may get this: Running command: esxcli software profile update -p ESXi-6.5.0-20180104001-standard \ -d https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml Output: [InstallationError] Failed updating the bootloader: Execution of command /usr/lib/vmware/bootloader-installer/install-bootloader failed: non-zero code returned return code: 1 output:…
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