Troubleshooting vCSA Installation Issues in a VMware Lab Environment
As I was trying to re-install vCSA in my lab VMware environment, I encountered issues. All my VMs, including DNS and AD, run on VMware Workstation. I have a VMware…
Passthrough smart card reader to VM in ESXi host error
I am in the process of implementing MFA in my production environment. As always, test any critical implementations and document thoroughly in your test environment. I attached the USB smart…
VMware vCenter Upgrade: Error “No space left on device”
I was trying to upgrade VMware vCenter (VCSA) to v7.0U3 at my work using the command shell, I got an error while staging the ISO. OSError:[Error 28] No space left…
Updating/Changing DNS IPs in VMware vCenter Appliance and ESXi hosts
If you try to change / update DNS IPs on the ESXi host from within the vCenter , it will give an error " This operation cannot be performed while…
VMware ESXi: Unable to take snapshot after upgrading to ESXi 7.0
Background: Earlier this month I upgraded my production VMware vSphere environment from 6.7 U3 to 7.0.0. All the hosts in the cluster are HPE DL380 Gen10 server. I used HPE…
Upgrading ESXi from 6.7 U3 to 7.0
There are two ways you can upgrade ESXi hosts:- Upgrading ESXi using ESXCLI- Upgrading ESXi via VMware LifeCycle Manager. VMware Update Manager has been replaced with VMware Lifecycle Manager in…
Upgrading VMware vSphere from 6.7 U3 to vSphere 7
vSphere 7 went GA on April 2, 2020 and it is a major release. I run ESXi on a single Dell R720 server and running nested ESXi hosts. Here is a link to my lab. Now checking VMWare compatibility…
VM in Hyper-v getting duplicate IP addresses
I've a VMs running on Hyper-v lab at work. For inter vlan routing I am using pfsense. When I configure a vm with static IP after a reboot it is…
VMware VM resolution
I was getting VM display resolution of max 1280 x 800 only. Small console window and hard to work with. Resolution: Power off the VMIncrease the total video memory. I…
ESXi 6.7 update patch fails with DependencyError related to Image Profile
ardware: HPE Proliant DL380 Gen 10 ESXi installation : VMware-ESXi-6.7.0-Update1-10302608-HPE-Gen9plus-670.U1.10.3.5.12-Oct2018 When I try to apply Patch Release ESXi670-201901001.zip, I got the following error: [DependencyError] VIB QLC_bootbank_qwdrntv_3.9.18.0 - 10EM.670.0.0.7535516 requires qedentv_ver…