Tagged: VSA

VMware VSA Export VMs from broken appliances 12

VMware VSA Export VMs from broken appliances

So the title sounds disastrous and its a fact that I had recently faced the issue at one of our customers where one of the VSA ESXi nodes failed due to hardware issues and...

vSphere 5.x Tip To Toe: VSA Appliance root access! Why? 0

vSphere 5.x Tip To Toe: VSA Appliance root access! Why?

Sometimes you get odd requests from customers but usually they have a valid argument, in this case a customer had an intelligent UPS which performs a soft shutdown of the virtual machines in case...

vSphere 5.x Tip To Toe: Replace a vSphere Storage Appliance (5.5) 0

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...