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After running Windows 11 and VMWARE workstation 17.x, perfomance really collapsed, VM’s are very slow. There are many fixes and workarounds out there, but I have found that theese settings helped me out a lot: Command prompt: powercfg /powerthrottling disable…
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UPDATE 23/7-2024: Solved in: VMware vCenter Server 8.0 Update 3a Release Notes When updating vCenter server to version 8.0 U3, it will mostly fail, and showing you this: Log file /var/log/vmware/applmgmt/Patchrunner.log will show below entries:/var/log/vmware/applmgmt/Patchrunner.log: vmidentity:Expand INFO vmidentity.utils Executing: [‘/usr/lib/vmware-vmafd/bin/vecs-cli’, ‘entry’, ‘list’,…
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Symptoms For versions prior to VCSA 6.7 Update 1, see Resetting root password in vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 to 6.7 U1. Logging in to the root account of vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) fails. The root account of the vCenter Server Appliance 6.7…
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When running the vCenter Server 8 Upgrade, you may see this: “Upgrade phase timed out. The time planned for the upgrade phase was 60 minutes. The upgrade phase has already been running for 60 minutes.” It happens during the migration…
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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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