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...
Category: VSA
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)
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]
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
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...
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: Configuring VSA 5.1 using a single quad NIC (Brownfield)
When I first read about the new features that are found in the new VSA I just couldn’t hold myself from tampering with it, in the lab all went well without any issue until...
