Category: VMware

Blog VMware vSphere
21.06.2023

How to Update VMware VCSA 8 Offline via patch ISO

A few days ago I had the challenge to upgrade my customers vSphere environment offline. So I thought, yep, you have to do a blog post about that. There are indeed situations where a direct upgrade via internet is not possible e.g. in darksites, security customers and many more. But also for environments where the internet connection might not be reliable enough. In such cases […]

Blog ESXi VMware
14.06.2023

Create/Show/Delete Snapshots with ESXi CLI

In various situations (mostly in the context of automation), I have been asked by DevOps colleagues how to take a snapshot of a VM via CLI. The whole thing works with a vim-cmd command. You need access via SSH to the respective ESXi server, then we list all available VMs: Then we note the VMID from which we want to create a snapshot. In our […]

Blog NSX ALB VMware
24.03.2023

Introduction to NSX Advanced Load Balancer and Deployment without NSX-T

We find plenty of tutorials on how to deploy and configure the NSX Advanced Load Balancer in conjunction with NSX-T. I am one of the few who do not have NSX-T in their HomeLab, so in this tutorial I would like to briefly show you the NSX ALB deployment without NSX-T. But first let us talk about the NSX Advanced Load Balancer (formaly known as […]

Blog ESXi VMware
16.03.2023

VMware Baseline Updates & HCL Check – Missing dependencies VIBs Error Part 2

As you guys know from my previous Upgrade post, I showed the Upgrade/Update path from ESXi 6.7 to 7.0 via the out-of-band management platform on the servers. (iDRAC; iLO; CIMC and so on) This time, however, I want to show you the update/upgrade way via Baseline updates, i.e. you update your ESXi servers with Baselines over your vCenter. For vSphere 8 environments this way is no […]

News VMware
02.03.2023

EINLADUNG ZUM 35. VMWARE TECHUPDATE

Ladies and Gentleman, Let’s get ready to Virtualize – again! Es ist wieder Zeit für das legendäre VMware TechUpdate #35. An 6 Standorten werden wir euch wie gewohnt, die geballte Ladung an Neuigkeiten aus dem VMware Kosmos vorstellen. Zwei besondere Highlights: Dell Edge Computing mit der XR/VD (VxRail) Serie und eine Session über das Zusammenspiel von Cisco ACI und VMware NSX-T. Also nicht entgehen lassen […]

Blog VMware vSphere
01.03.2023

The default partition ‘/’ has only 3.8 GB of available space. Enter a new export directory on the source machine below – vCenter Upgrade

Since there are still numerous VMware vSphere 6.7 appliances and they are no longer supported since October 15, 2022, upgrade projects with our customers are increasing. During the upgrade process we encountered a warning in Stage 2, which prevented the process from continuing. When the OVA deployment finishes, you are redirected to Stage 2 of the upgrade process to transfer the data from the old […]

Home Lab Stage VII VMware
09.02.2023

irgNET – LAB 7.0 U3 – VMware SD-WAN

New month; new HomeLab update! This update is about changing my WAN architecture and I will use from now on the SD-WAN solution of VMware. But – What is behind Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN)? We are not talking about a hardware addition or a software application in vSphere, but about a fundamental modification (improvement) of the WAN. Before we take a look at the GUI of […]

News VMware vSAN
03.02.2023

Intel Optane NVMe Drives – Sample Hardware from VMware vExpert program and Intel

As you Guys know – I am a VMware vExpert for the first time since last year. I heard about the vExpert Program through my mentors Marc Huppert VCDX181 & Daniel Simelka back then. This is a special circle of VMware enthusiasts who love and live this great technology. And especially as an ambitious HomeLab’er you should not miss this community! No sooner said than […]