Daniel Micanek virtual Blog – Like normal Dan, but virtual.
Minimum vSphere privileges to install or remove patch from ESXi
I recently got a question from our field inquiring about the minimum vSphere privileges that would be required to either install or remove a patch (VIB/Component) from an ESXi host. The customer was interested in using PowerCLI and specifically the ESXLI interface to automate the installation […]
VMware added a method to reset a locked/forgotten root pass without the need for restarting the appliance and having to go into GRUB to boot into single user mode. […]
This is the third part of a series of blogpost related to the NSX technology, relative version 4.xYou can find other blogpost from this series here: – Part 1 NSX […]
Hello There, Recently , we faced an issue in our NSX-T envrironment running with 3.2.x version. We saw below error message while running the pre-check for NSX upgrade to 4.x version. “Edge node 31c2a0ba-e10a-48eb-940d-85f1e48c811f vmId is not found on NSX manager” […]
In this blog post, we’ll dive into the common pitfalls and challenges that users face when trying to upgrade vCenter with vCHA enabled. We’ll discuss the potential causes of the failure, troubleshooting tips, and possible solutions to get your upgrade back on track.
I’m proud to present the latest VMware Cloud Foundation posters. Back by popular demand, the posters are done in a dark format (my personal favorite) and a light format. Each poster features the art of what’s possible with VMware Cloud Foundation 5 Private Cloud Platform.
For most users who configure syslog for their ESXi hosts (hopefully everyone is doing that for audit, compliance and troubleshooting purposes), they typically stick with the default syslog ports 514 for UDP/TCP or 1415 for TLS. A huge benefit of using the default syslog ports is that the ESXi […]
There are two new tools to help understand and calculate the required subscription capacity for the new VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) offerings, which are licensed based on physical CPU Cores for compute and total raw physical storage (TiBs) for vSAN.
SAP HANA on vSphere 8 with 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids) gained support last year. Initially, deploying SAP HANA as ‘half-socket’ sized VMs wasn’t supported by SAP, limiting deployment to a maximum of 2 SAP HANA production VMs on a 2-socket Sapphire Rapids server. […]
On VMware CMTY Podcast #686, WE April 3, Gareth Edwards, a key Community member and Solution Engineer at VMware Broadcom, explores the innovative Holodeck project—a fully automated lab with all the bells and whistles. Whether you’re a seasoned pro or new to home lab setups, this podcast offers […]
