ESXi Failed to open device naa.(GUID) No space left on device
So I had a late call from a friend saying that he can’t mount a datastore after expanding it from the storage, it was a weekend and next day was Monday and the wife...
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VCAP5-DTA: Introduction to the blueprint
Well it seems that the VCAP-DCD needs to wait a bit because I just couldn’t help shifting my attention to VCAP5-DTA, in this series of blogs I will be going through the blueprint as...
vSphere 5.x Tip To Toe: Replace a vSphere Storage Appliance (5.5)
I was troubleshooting at a customer’s site and I found out that one of the appliances for some reason is corrupt from a configuration perspective, the cluster would always see the appliance offline when...
My submissions to vSphere Design Pocketbook
I was going through my notes, and I came across the points that I had earlier submitted to the vSphere Design Pocketbook contest that was/still is a generous courtesy from PernixData. Although some of...
vSphere 5.x Tip To Toe: Upgrade from ESXi 5.1 to ESXi 5.5 (HP iLO4 Style)
Obviously there must be more than one article describing how to do it but I prefer seeing things in action, so I recorded how I upgraded my lab hypervisor from ESXi 5.1 to ESXi...
VMware VSA 5.1.1.0 License Expired
Well today a customer called screaming out that the VSA’s license has expired (although the key’s were installed upon installation), so I logged in to vCenter via vSphere Client and vSphere Web Client and ...
vSphere Tip To Toe: Reset ESXi root user password “Lost r00t o_0?”
Hello again my friends, this time I came across a customer who seemed to be completely blunt about the root password that he have set on his ESXi servers. As you may know previously...
