VMWare
We have seen the VMware ESXi host memory usage alarm in the vSphere console many times during the operations. Today we will discuss what course of action can be taken to remediate this issue. The ESXi host memory usage go to high when the hosted Virtual Machines utilize higher memory than usual may be during … Read more
In this blog post, we will provide steps for VMware downloading and licensing vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi 6.x & 7.x). This is taken from the VMware KB article given here. Downloading vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi 6.x & 7.x) To download and activate ESXi 6.x & 7.x: Navigate to the VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) Download Center. From the Select … Read more
In this blogpost, we’ll see how you can shutdown forcefully an unresponsive or hung VMware virtual machine using esxcli command-line. In this case scenario, you will not able to shutdown or power off the virtual machine through the vSphere and inside the Guest OS. Let’s begin with the steps now. SSH into the host where … Read more
Introduction to vSAN Data Persistence Platform Recently Myles Gray, a Senior Technical Marketing Architect at VMware announced to VMware vSAN Data Persistence Platform(DPp) to Tanzu suite of products where it will try to fulfill the demands for applications changing in nature over the time. Modern apps, in particular, those built to run on Kubernetes are … Read more
Today We’ll discuss the vSAN error message “vSAN health alarm ‘vSAN release catalog up-to-date’” and the process to remediate it. This is vSAN Health Service – vSAN Build Recommendation related alarm which can be seen at the vSAN cluster console. The vSAN release catalog maintains information about available releases, preferred order for releases, and critical patches needed … Read more
vRealize Automation (vRA) 8.2 introduces many awesome new features including enhanced governance through shared infrastructure multi-tenancy, custom role-based access control, and new approval options. Support for Terraform is provided directly on the design canvas and full support for the NSX-T Policy APIs is available. This blog post will walk through the new features in 8.2 at … Read more
VMware vSAN HCI Mesh The Scale-out architecture of VMware vSAN enables powerful non-disruptive scale-up or scale-out capabilities. You can non-disruptively expand capacity and performance by adding hosts to a cluster (scale-out) or just grow capacity by adding disks to a host (scale-up). As application workloads organically grow, this enables performance to be right-sized at each … Read more
In this blog, we’ll discuss the Module CPUID Power On Failed error and steps to fix this error for the virtual machine. The complete error looks like this: Error: Task failed on the server: Module ‘CPUID’ power on failed or failed to power on virtual machine module ‘cpuid’ power on failed. in the vSphere console, … Read more
In this blogpost we’ll see how to expand raid 5 in dell servers using omsa on the fly. Dell RAID 5 arrays can be expanded or converted online via the Reconfigure command within Dell OpenManage(OMSA). You can also do it via BIOS but you have to shutdown the servers. As we all know a RAID … Read more
Let’s have a look at VMware Ports and Protocols tools and their benefits for the users. It helps you to discover what Ports are needed by VMware Products and Solutions. The VMware Ports and Protocols tool is a portal that enables you to view all the ports needed by various VMware products, solutions, and services … Read more