What happened? It came as a surprise to me that a few of my production vSphere and vCenter environments all started exhibiting issues with the vSphere web client. I tried on every browser, both Windows and Mac, but kept getting this message: Accompanied by a friendly reminder that the page Read more…
Here’s to all the articles I’ve implicitly stated “enable SSH access” or “SSH should be enabled” but offered no further assistance for those who wanted to know how to do that. Now I can link to this post! xD Enabling SSH access to your ESXi server can be done in Read more…
Does your Synology NFS datastore look like this? Is Hardware Acceleration “not supported”? Well, you’re lucky because this is a quick and vendor-supported fix. By enabling the VAAI plugin, you will see much better performance and also gain access to the full set of VMWare features: Synology supports VAAI primitives Read more…
Usually I find that I’ll need to convert a Hyper-V VM to VMWare ESXi, but in this rare scenario, I had to convert ESXi 6.5 Virtual Machines into Hyper-V (2012 R2) virtual machines. This is trivial if you have a supported environment: you simply use Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter [MVMC Read more…
You can do a lot of configuration of ESXi through the GUI, but one thing I’ve found that you cannot do is configure SNMP. I can see in the GUI that SNMP service is stopped, and that’s about it: Even if you can manage to get the service started Read more…
My Dell PowerEdge R220 wasn’t showing me any stats about my server components inside vSphere, even with the Dell Customized ESXi 6.5 ISO. So I took to installing the OpenManage 8.4 VIB, similar to my 8.4 install on 5.5 First, I’m noting that there isn’t a release of the VIB for Read more…