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Support Bundle taking up log file space on VCSA

Oct 26, 2016 · 1 min read · vmware · vcenter ·

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Support Bundle taking up log file space on VCSA

The vCSA Log file disk was triggering a warning.

The All New vSphere 6.5

Oct 18, 2016 · 5 min read · vmworld · vmw2016 · vmware · vsphere · vcenter ·

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A new version of VMware vSphere, 6.5, will be released shortly

Setting EVC Level on a Cluster with a VCSA and no shared storage

Aug 30, 2016 · 4 min read · vmware · esxi · vcenter ·

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Problem

A second host has been added to a one-node vSphere cluster which has no shared storage and EVC cannot be enabled.

vSphere HTML5 Web Client

Jun 14, 2016 · 2 min read · vcenter · vmware ·

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With ESXi 6.0 update 2 we were treated to a HTML-based web host client. This meant we were no longer confined to using the Windows (“C++”) client for host management, however it was still necessary to use the Flash-based web client for managing a vCenter infrastructure. The vSphere HTML5 Web Client is the …

Error Fetching Datastores when installing VCSA

Apr 25, 2016 · 1 min read · vcenter · vmware ·

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Symptoms When installing VCSA onto an existing vCenter environment (as a VM, not as an in-place upgrade of that environment), on Step-9 “Select Datastore” the installer shows the message “Error Fetching Datastores” and no datastores are listed so installation cannot continue. Workaround Go back …

PowerCLI Snippet- Total Memory Allocation

Jan 20, 2016 · 1 min read · esxi · vcenter · vmware · powercli ·

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PowerCLI Snippet- Total Memory Allocation

This PowerShell one liner looks at all the powered on Virtual Machines in a vCenter estate and returns the total memory allocated, rounded to the nearest GB.

Recovery of an Accidentally Deleted Datastore.

Jul 20, 2015 · 1 min read · esxi · vcenter · vmware ·

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Recovery of an Accidentally Deleted Datastore.

Symptoms

A VMware administrator has been tidying up an old ESX host prior to decommissioning and has accidentally clicked Delete on a shared datastore rather than Unmount.