Category: vSphere

Blog Dell Dell XR4000 VMware vSAN vSphere
21. September 2023

Dell XR4000 and VMware vSphere – NextGen Edge Solution

Last year at Dell Technologies World 2022, my mentor Marc Huppert (VCDX 181) and I came across the Dell XR4000 at the Solutions Expo. I mean we have seen it all before, servers, storage and networking but this edge solution from Dell blew us away! CEO Michael Dell said in his keynote that by 2025, more than 50% of IT deployments will happen in the […]

Blog Dell Dell VxRail VMware vSphere
19. September 2023

Configuring LACP on Distributed Switches – VMware vSphere 8 & Dell VxRail

With Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) support on a vSphere distributed switch, you can connect ESX hosts to physical switches using dynamic link aggregation. Multiple link aggregation groups can be created on a distributed switch to aggregate bandwidth from physical NICs to ESXi hosts connected to LACP port channels. Most of you have probably created a LACP configuration on a distributed switch in various customer […]

Blog VMware vSphere
5. July 2023

Performing a Reconfigure for vSphere HA operation on a primary node may cause an unexpected virtual machine failover

Yep, the Warning Message is that long! 😀 This is what I got from a customer, their vSphere Skyline Health was showing the above mentioned Warning: *Sorry for the poor quality picture. 🙂 If you manually reconfigure the primary HA host for HA, this forces the secondary host to find a new primary host. The newly elected primary host places the VMs that were running […]

Blog VMware vSphere
21. June 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 VMware vSphere
1. March 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]