Quick Fix - VCSA Low DB Storage Space Warning
I had a situation earlier this week where the VMware SDK/API service was being reported as offline. I was triggered by some failed backup jobs which made me ...
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Quick Fix: Can't Log into Enterprise Manager due to Not Installed or Corrupt License
Had a situation today whereI needed to update the license for one of my Veeam Enterprise Manager isntances due to using ones from previous internal builds. M...
Quick Fix - OS Not Found Deploying Windows Template with Terraform
During the first plan execution of a new VM based on a Windows Server Core VM Template, my Terraform plan timed out on Guest Customizations. The same plan ha...
Quick Fix - ESXi loses all Network Configuration... but still runs?
I had a really strange situation pop up in one of my lab environments over the weekend. vSAN Health was reporting that one of the hosts had lost networking c...
Quick Fix - Incompatible Veeam Backup for Office 365 Server Version
This week Veeam dropped version 3.0 of Backup for Microsoft Office 365 , which represents another significant update to the SaaS backup platform and builds o...
Quick Fix - Backing up vCenter Content Library Content with Veeam
A question came up in the Veeam Forums this week about how you would backup the contents of a Content Library. As a refresher, content libraries are containe...
Quick Tip: Let’s Encrypt ACME Powershell Ownership Challenge Can't see Challenge Data
I'm currently going through the process of acquiring a new Let's Encrypt free SSL Certificate against a new domain I registered. For a great overview of what...
Quick Fix: vSAN Health Reports iSCSI Target Service Stopped
A few weeks ago I wrote about using iSCSI as a backup repository target . While still running this POC in my environment I came across an error in the vSAN H...
vCloud Director 9.0: Manual Quick fix for VXLAN Network Pool Error
vCloud Director 9.0, released last week has a bunch of new enhancements and a lot of those are focused around it's integration with NSX. Tom Fojta has a what...
ESXI 6.5 Storage Performance Issues Resolved in Update 1
I originally came across the issue of slow storage performance with the native vmw_ahci driver that comes bundled with ESXi 6.5 just as I was first playing w...
Quick Fix - Unable to Upgrade Distributed Switch After vCenter Upgrade
This week I upgraded (and migrated) my SliemaLabs NestedESXi vCenter from a Windows 6.0 server to a 6.5 VCSA ...everything went well, but ran into an issue w...