It’s that time again! Dell has released another version of their OpenManage Server administrator. They officially support vSphere versions 6.0 and 6.5 with this version on 11th, 12th, 13th, and 14th-generation poweredge servers. Here is how to download/install OMSA 9.1 VIB on ESXi 6.5 or ESXi 6.0. This is Read more…
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…
Ever since vSphere 6.5 I’ve bee missing some parts of the vSphere client. I still use it over the web interface for some things such as iSCSI target mapping, port binding, and all those configs. If you, too, miss the vSphere clients, you can make sure you get the latest Read more…
This week I was converting a bare-metal windows server into an ESXi host while preserving the original OS. I ran into some trouble because I saved the VMs to a UNC share instead of cloning it directly to a vSphere server. I copied the VMX and VMDK files output from VMWare converter Read more…
I am provisioning a PowerEdge T320 which is running VMware vSphere 5.5 We have been recently deploying cloud or hyper-v based infrastructure. With that said, our ESXi docs were somewhat dated. I have in my repository Dell OpenManage 7.4 VIBs OM-SrvAdmin-Dell-Web-7.4.0-876.VIB-ESX55i_A00.zip As of 2017 you can get Dell OpenManage 8.4 Read more…
Sure, there are many ways to make a copy of an OS or VM and spin it up in another instance. But here is the proper way… with vSphere at least. I’m assuming you already have basic knowledge of templating and wiping the system’s unique identifiers (sysprep for windows, Read more…
I manage a large number of ESXi hosts. These are at remote locations and it’s sometimes extremely difficult for me to gain access to the vSphere console unless we have a site-to-site VPN connection with the client. One of my recent challenges (hah) was remotely accessing and managing an ESXi Read more…