Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Updating vSphere 6.5 with vSphere Update Manager

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Update Manager has been and is the tool for upgrading and patching ESXi hosts, virtual appliances and VMs. There was only one caveat: it nee...
Monday, April 10, 2017

Veeam VMware vSphere Web Client Plug-in

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Somehow I keep on getting back to restarting this activity, which is very rewarding, but also time consuming. Since I've accepted a new...
Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Veeam Backup and Replication: Offsite Backup Repository

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One of the common scenarios for backup infrastructures is to send the local backups to a secondary site. In a Veeam Backup and Replication (...
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Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Distributed virtual switch IP hash mismatch warning

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While migrating a standard switch to a distributed switch I've enabled health check for Teaming and failover. In the migration wizard, t...
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Monday, July 1, 2013

TCP ports "greater than 65535"

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Let me tell this nice story. And yes, there are no TCP ports above 65535, but earlier today after receiving the credentials, I connected wi...
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Thursday, June 20, 2013

Command line upgrade of ESXi 5.1 to 5.1 U1

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The reason I`ve chosen this method is not having VUM installed and also wanting to remember a bit of esxcli. The process is pretty simple: ...
Saturday, June 15, 2013

vCloud Director 5.1 upgrade and missing sysadmin permissions

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I`ve recently managed to crash my test lab. One of the rebuild tasks was to reinstall vCloud Director - the hard way: dropping the DB and r...