Category: VMware

This article provides steps to back up and restore the ESXi host configuration. There are two conditions that need to be satisfied: 1 – The destination build number of the host matches the build from which the backup was taken.2 – The UUID of the host remains the same. You can backup and restore the host configuration using one of these methods: ESXi Command line […]

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 […]