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Patching VMware vCSA 6.7 via Command Line

February 17, 2021 Jonny vCenter, vCSA, VMware

Don’t you just love it when something fails with an absolutely useless error message? Routine patching of a vCSA a while back (alright, two years back. Sometimes these things end up on the back burner!)

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Upgrade vCSA from 6.5 to 6.7 with CLI Installer

February 4, 2019 Jonny vCenter, vCSA, VMware, vSphere

Or is it “automate all the things”? Here’s a run down of a little bit of both. CLI vCenter Server Appliance upgrades starts at the same place as with a GUI install. Download the vCSA

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Remove Enhanced Link Mode vCenters from Inventory with cmsso-util

February 1, 2019 Jonny vCenter, vCSA, VMware

Setting up Enhanced Linked Mode is easy and almost mandatory for bigger environments; but what about when things go wrong? Dead vCenter instances in your inventory is, if nothing else, unsightly. Here’s how you can

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Deploy VMware vCSA with CLI Installer

January 23, 2019 Jonny Microsoft Windows, vCenter, vCSA, vSphere

The whole point of a homelab is having an environment that’s detached from production and can be broken without consequence. Recently though, my homelab has become a bit more prod/DC/darling, why is the internet not

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Creating a NAS on VMware ESXi with Nexenta

January 17, 2018 Jonny NexentaStor, vCenter, VMware

Nexenta NexentaStor is an enterprise grade NAS appliance that provides block (iSCSI) and file (SMB, NFS) services. It’s also great for homelabbers as a restricted ‘community’ edition is available, which makes for a great alternative

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Fixing vCenter Error: “Another task is already in progress”

October 7, 2017 Jonny vCenter, Veeam, VMware, vSphere

I came across an odd issue for the first time in my lab. A Veeam backup failed to complete with one VM reporting the following- Error: Another task is already in progress

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Deploy OVAs to vCenter with VMware OVF Tool

September 23, 2017 Jonny Microsoft Windows, vCenter, VMware, vSphere

Try to deploy an OVA in vCenter 6.5 and you’ll likely see the following helpful little number- After some mucking about, I found a supported solution- VMware OVF Tool.

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Upgrading vSphere from 6.0 to 6.5

December 21, 2016 Jonny Update Manager, vCenter, VMware, vSphere

This is a four step guide on the process of upgrading from vSphere 6.0 to 6.5. I’ve included all steps individually for those who aren’t taking advantage of the full vSphere suite. Part 1- Running

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Running the VMware VCSA Migration Assistant

December 21, 2016 Jonny Update Manager, vCenter, VMware, vSphere

This is part one in a four part series on upgrading to vSphere 6.5 You can find the rest of the series here You will receive the following error if running VMware Update Manager on

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Upgrading from ESXi 6.0 to 6.5 with VCSA 6.5

December 21, 2016 Jonny Update Manager, vCenter, VMware, vSphere

This is part four in a four part series on upgrading to vSphere 6.5 You can find the rest of the series here This section of the tutorial will deal with the matter or upgrading

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