I was attempting to upgrade a vCenter from 5.5u2D to 5.5u3. We noticed that the installer would take a long time in the phase “Extracting Registration Tool”, and when I mean long I’m talking anywhere from 10-30 minutes. By going to %TEMP% and then viewing the vminst.log, I could see that the last thing done… Read More »
I was taking a look at the new VSAN that I build (3-node of HP DL380 Gen 9), and I noticed an error message on the host/cluster. This was after I resolved the driver issue, so I knew it was something new. From this screenshot, you will see that at the cluster level you see… Read More »
HP released their custom ESXi 6.0u1 Image and VMware Recipe last month and I have just gotten around to building a custom iso for my environment. UPDATE: HP release a custom iso for ESXi 6.0u1b and it STILL has the issue, I still have a case open with HP. Update 2/12/2016: The case is starting… Read More »
This will be a short post. I forgot to upgrade Update Manager to 6, so I just wanted to talk about the steps and the issue I encountered. I had two Update Managers to update. I ran through the installer on both with no issues (though one asked me to be logged in as the… Read More »
I upgraded one of our first vCenters yesterday to 6, and boy was it a doozy. The vCenter was at 5.5u2D, but it has been upgraded over the years (probably starting from 3.x) so it has carried over some old crud. This post will cover all of the KBs that I had to use (be… Read More »
I have been consulting with a group in my company to setup a new VMware environment that would consist of a central component in the datacenter and remote components in each of the remote locations. There would be firewalls and NAT’ing setup to isolate these environments from the rest of the company intranet. This post will… Read More »