Upgrading ESXi 6.0 hosts with PowerCLI

3 april 2020 PowerCli Powershell Script VMware
The last step in my migration project was to actually upgrade the hosts to a supported version. This means that all hosts are upgraded to 6.7 except for those hosts that are a bit to old and only support 6.5. For the upgrade, I used Update Manager to store the…

Migrating ESXi Hosts to Another vCenter Server

6 maart 2020 PowerCli Script VMware
As part of a migration project, ESXi hosts needed to be migrated to a new vCenter appliance. The Cisco 1000v distributed virtual switch was stripped out and converted to standard switches. So basically it was a matter of disconnecting, and removing the hosts from the old vCenter and adding them…

Building a lab – recurring issues

1 februari 2020 Solutions VMware
As I am preparing for an exam (VCAP Network Virtualization Deployment) is started a rebuild of my lab. During this process, I encountered several issues. With this post I keep track of all the issues and solutions. Keep in mind that I try to write them down in the order…

vCenter Update Manager gives error status 404 in IE 11

27 september 2019 VMware
I was working in my home lab testing a migration of hosts from vCenter 6 (Windows) to the 6.7 VCSA. The steps outlined in the article “How to move ESXi/ESX host from one vCenter Server to another” (1004775) worked flawless but for some reason Update Manager didn’t work… I tried…

It’s official!! vExpert 2019

27 juli 2019 VMware
A couple months ago I applied for the VMware vExpert Program. I had to show them I share my knowledge and always try to help others. And also be an evangelist for VMware and its solutions. Yesterday I got a confirmation email that I had been added to the program!…

Find a datastore or RDM by LUN ID

27 juli 2019 PowerCli Script VMware
Sometimes the storage team wants to clean up their LUNs but they only know the LUN ID. And they ask you, the ESXi admin, where that LUN is used… Not an easy question if you don’t have an administration of your LUNs. You can use the UI and do some…

vCenter not using SMTP smarthost but DNS

8 juni 2019 Solutions VMware
The other day I had scheduled a task for a VM and I wanted to get an email notification about the status of that job. So I configured the notification. But the next morning I didn’t find a confirmation email in my inbox. Strange! So I checked the email settings…

vRO – Creating a test copy of your appliance

7 mei 2019 VMware vRealize Orchestrator
Recently I was investigating the migration of an external vRealize Orchestrator instance to an embedded instance inside vRealize Automation. But for testing purposes I didn’t want to use the production appliances… So I had to create a test vRA and vRO appliance. I started with vRO. The control Center has…