Category: VMware

In this project we had a stack consisting of 3 individual VMware ESXi 5.5 servers. These are the Cisco UCS C240M4S2 model with Intel XEON v3 CPUs. As mentioned earlier, 09/18/2020 was considered End of Support for ESXi 5.5 and so most are now forced to update their environments to the latest version. First we check via VMware Compatibility Guide if the hardware component, BIOS […]

In case you don’t have a backup solution in your home labs but also surprisingly in your company. I would like to show you a backup variant for your VMs. Please note that a backup is necessary in the home lab as well as in the company for long-term data consistency. This is by no means a professional backup solution but intended for the case […]

On Saturday my Home Lab was nominated by VMware vSAN and posted on their twitter page, something like that makes you proud after all. BIG THANKS to VMware 🙂 That’s just the beginning of a great Adventure.

I tried to update my ESXi hosts after updating to ESXi 7.0 U2 with build 17867351, but I received the following error message: After reviewing the logs and restarting the vCenter, I found no solution until I became aware of this Knowledge Base article from VMware, which subsequently solved my problem. To fix this error message, the VMware Update Manager database of the vCenter must […]

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There are four options available in VMware ESXi Host to work with its interface: Alt + F1 = To access the ESXi Shell or Console interfaceAlt + F2 = To access the ESXi Direct Console User Interface (DCUI)Alt + F11 = To switch to banner screenAlt + F12 = To switch the VMkernel Log Console In this article, we will discuss one issue respecting ESXi Shell or console […]

Do you have a VM with a too high hardware version, which can’t be migrated to an older VMware ESXi host? And the rest of your environment is running on the latest VMware vSphere version i.e. you’ve upgraded to the latest version of vCenter Server, ESXi, VMware Tools? I’ll show you a way to make the VM compatible again. I bought a HPE ML310e Gen8 […]