Tagged: vSphere

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...

vSphere 5.x Tip To Toe: VMware VSA 5.3 Troubleshooting Scenario [1] 0

vSphere 5.x Tip To Toe: VMware VSA 5.3 Troubleshooting Scenario [1]

I’ve been recently involved in various VMware VSA implementations and I haven’t faced much problems with it, usually is something drastic happens to the vCenter server I would just reinstall the vCenter server and...

My submissions to vSphere Design Pocketbook 0

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) 0

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 0

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 5.x Tip To Toe: VMDK Management 0

vSphere 5.x Tip To Toe: VMDK Management

Hello hello hello, its a new year..it’s a busy year…any my blog will miss me more :(… so I’ve been fiddling with VMDK and here are a couple of useful things that I logged...

vSphere Tip To Toe: Reset ESXi root user password “Lost r00t o_0?” 40

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...