Category: VMware

Blog VMware vSAN
20. January 2023

VMware vSAN 8 OSA Witness Deployment – IP / Login Issues

Not only the vSphere 8 update is currently pending for many, but also the vSAN must be updated accordingly. Especially with regard to vSAN Streched or ROBO clusters with a Witness Appliance. The vSAN 8 itself comes with the vSphere 8 update, furthermore the disk format version as well as vDS version have to be upgraded. As far as the vSAN Witness Appliance is concerned, […]

Advanced Tutorials Blog Rocky Linux VMware vSphere
31. December 2022

NFS-Server with CentOS 8 / Red Hat 8 for VMware vCenter Backups

In various community meetings, we often talk about backups for VMware vCenter. As you know, image based backups are only conditionally “supported”. It can go well, but in most cases the VMware vCenter will not be fully restored and you will be forced to re-deploy the appliance. Community and customers are ambivalent, one backs up his VMware vCenter via Veeam etc., the other via the […]

Dell Dell PowerEdge Home Lab Stage VII VMware vSAN
7. December 2022

irgNET – LAB 7.0 U1

As I mentioned in the last HomeLab Update, I will post all upgrades in my infrastructre monthly from now on. This time we will talk about the expansion of my VMware vSAN OSA ROBO 2-Node Cluster. My personal VMware vSAN journey started about 1 year ago: Back that time I had a usable capacity of about 3 TB, over time I have converted my single […]

Blog VMware vSAN vSphere
28. October 2022

How to fix “vSphere HA initiated a virtual machine failover action”

“vSphere HA initiated a virtual machine failover action” or “HA initiated a failover action in cluster” issue warning message keep showing on my VMware vSAN ROBO cluster. All hosts in the cluster running fine and there is no HA error in logs too. This alert occurs when a Failover occurs in the cluster. Both of the servers are in a production environment and there is […]

News VMware
23. September 2022

EINLADUNG ZUM 34. VMWARE TECHUPDATE

UNSERE EXPERTEN KOMMEN WIEDER ZU IHNEN wir freuen uns, Sie zu unserem 34. VMware TechUpdate einladen zu dürfen. Endlich können wir wieder Präsenz Termine anbieten. 6 Termine vor Ort, sowie 2 Online-Termine stehen zur Auswahl, an denen unsere Experten Ihnen die aktuellsten Neuerungen im Bereich der VMware Produktpalette präsentieren möchten: TERMINE – JEWEILS VON 09:30 BIS 16:30 UHR Mittwoch, 19. Oktober 2022 – Frankfurt The […]

Blog VMware vSphere
12. September 2022

Unable to delete an “inaccessible” datastore (Zombie datastore)

I built a new storage array and migrated the VMs accordingly. But the server gave the following error message: I noticed that the old datastore is still shown as “inaccessible” in vCenter: And even via esxcli I don’t see the datastore anymore: So I first choose the classic way, putting the Server in Maintenance Mode and “Reboot does Good”. But the inaccessible Datastore is still […]

Blog VMware vSAN
5. September 2022

Insufficient configured resources to satisfy the desired vSphere HA failover level on Cluster X in Datacenter X

When configuring my vSAN cluster, I forgot to set “in case of maintenance mode, all VMs should be migrated to the other host automatically” under the HA settings. So I made the following settings under Admission Control: Host failures cluster tolerates is at 1, because I have a VMware vSAN ROBO Cluster. So everything was fine and I found out that the Override calculated failover […]