Quick Fix: vSphere Storage Provider Offline
It's been a while since i've done a vSphere specific Quick Fix post, but the great thing about tinkering and labbing is that you run into situations and corn...
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Quick Fix - VCSA 6.7.0.10000 Can't Update via URL from Management Interface
I had an issue with my VCSA today trying to upgrade to vCenter 6.7 Update 1 whereby the Management Interface Upgrade option was not detecting the update to u...
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...
Workaround - VCSA 6.7 Upgrade Fails with CURL Error: Couldn't resolve host name
It's never an issue with DNS! Even when DNS looks right...it's still DNS! I came across an issue today trying to upgrade a 6.5 VCSA to 6.7. The new VCSA appl...
The One Problem with the VCSA
Over the past couple of months I noticed a trend in my top blog daily reporting...the Quick fix post on fixing a 503 Service Unavailable error was constantly...
migrate2vcsa - Migrating vCenter 6.0 to 6.5 VCSA
Over the past few years i've written a couple of articles on upgrading vCenter from 5.5 to 6.0. Firstly an in place upgrade of the 5.5 VCSA to 6.0 and then m...
Released: vCenter and ESXi 6.0 Update 3 – What’s in It for Service Providers
Last month I wrote a blog post on upgrading vCenter 5.5 to 6.0 Update 2 and during the course of writing that blog post I conducted a survey on which version...
Upgrading Windows vCenter 5.5 to 6.0 In-Place: Issues and Fixes
Yes that's not a typo...this post is focusing on upgrading Windows vCenter 5.5 to 6.0 via an in-place upgrade. There is the option to use the vSphere 6.0 Upd...
vSphere 6.5 - Whats in it for Service Providers Part 1
Last week after an extended period of development and beta testing VMware released vSphere 6.5. This is a lot more than a point release and is a major major ...
Quick Post: Web Client vs VI Client Permissions with VCSA
I've been using the VCSA for a couple of years now since the release of vSphere 5.5 and have been happily using the upgraded 6.0 version for a couple of my e...
Dealing with a Revoked vCenter SSL Certificate
Certificates and VMware don't go together like a horse and carriage ... And while I've never really had a major issue with SSL certs in VMware mainly because...
Quick Fix: vCenter 5.5 Update 3x Phone Home Warning and VPXD Service not Starting
This week I've been upgrading vCenter in a couple of our labs and came across this issue during and after the upgrade of vCenter from 5.5 Update 2 to 5.5 Upd...
Quick Fix: VCSA Web Client 6.0 Throws Monitoring Errors
This quick fix post is for those out there who are still using vCenter Operations Manager 5.8.x and are or thinking about deploying or upgrading to vCenter 6...
vSphere 5.5 Update 3 Released: Features and Top Fixes
vSphere 5.5 Update 3 was released earlier today and there are a bunch of bug fixes and feature improvements in this update release for both vCenter and ESXi....
January vCenter and ESXi 5.5 Patch Releases: Critical CBT Bug Fixed
VMware released new builds for vCenter and ESXi 5.5 today. The builds contain mostly bug fixes, but I wanted to point out one fix that had affected those who...
vCOPS 5.8: Critical Data Collection Bug
UPDATE : VMware Global Support supplied me with vCOPs 5.8.0 Hot Fix 01 Build 1537842 which is available via a support request. This is a complete .pak update...
vCenter SSO 5.5: AD Group Membership Gotchya
I've been running vCenter SSO 5.5 in mixed mode with vCenter 5.1 for a little while in our lab and production environment and recently had to configure exter...
vCenter SSO 5.5 Backwards Compatability: Mixed Mode Install
While at a post #vFourmAU event last week a group of us where talking about SSO in vCenter 5.1 and what a disaster it had been (credibility wise) and that VM...
How-To: vCenter 5.1 SSO Adding AD Identity Source
The SSO Component of vCenter 5.1 throws a couple of spanners in the works with regards to a straight forward upgrade of an existing vCenter install. While no...