VMware vSphere 6.0 END OF General Support
If you are still running vSphere 6.0, your TIME IS UP! As of March 12th, VMware is ending support for all vSphere 6.0 Products including vCenter, ESXi and…
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VMware PowerCLI – Quick query to list VMs restarted in an HA event
I don’t practice my PowerShell scripting nearly enough day to day for it to really stick so when I see/use these quick little one-liners that are so useful,…
PSA: vSphere Patch can break working NVIDIA GRiD set ups. (And don’t look directly at the sun #SolarEclipse2017)
I was working with a client today and going nuts trying to figure out why the NVIDIA VIB was not loading correctly in the vSphere 6.0 environment. We…
vSphere Installation Media : OEM or VMware?
Here is a topic that has recently come up for me at a few clients so I figured I would just jot some notes down on the subject. …
Upgrade those ESX 3.5 servers if you still have them …
Ran into this wonderful error message today during a migration to vSphere 5.1. I didn’t realize that vCenter 5.1 no longer supports ESX 3.5 so now to get…
How to Add a 3rd Party driver to a baseline in Update Manager
Working with the Nutanix clusters, I had an opportunity to upgrade them to vSphere 5 via Update Manager. The process of upgrading an ESX host with Update Manager…
Not enough room for vSphere 5 Upgrade? Free some up!
While using VMware’s Update Manager to upgrade a 4.0 ESX host to vSphere 5, I ran into a space issue. Looking at the event tab on the ESX…
Enabling/Disabling SSH via vCenter
Sometimes it is useful to have an SSH session to an ESXi server for troubleshooting. You can always enable it via the console (F2 –> Troubleshooting Options –>…
ESX Hardware Boot options (via vCenter GUI)
Not sure if this one is new or not but I’ve NEVER seen the Boot Options before in vCenter for a host. I think it’s pretty cool! You…