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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Working with ESXi Core Dumps
Collecting core dumps gives VMware support (and massochists) something to evaluate in the event of an ESXi PSOD. Collecting and viewing ESXi core dumps involves serveral elements- ESXi configuration, collector configuration and a dump viewer.
Read more‘Connection Control Operation Failed for Disk’ with Content Libraries
When trying to attach an ISO stored in a VMware Content Library the operation fails with the following error- Connection control operation failed for disk 'sata0:0'. To resolve follow these steps- Head over to the
Read moreRemoving Orphaned VMs Managed by Plugins from vCenter 6.7
Tonight I found myself in an unlikely situation but one I’ve been in (and got out of) before. Fortunately, past me didn’t document how he got out of it, so I had the pleasure of
Read moreProvisioning ESXi Hosts with Auto Deploy
As far as a TLDR goes, Auto Deploy is a VMware feature that allows taking a bare metal host, PXE booting into ESXi, applying configuration and bringing it, as a working, fully configured host; into
Read moreUpgrade vCSA from 6.5 to 6.7 with CLI Installer
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
Read moreDeploy Additional Embedded vCSAs with CLI Installer
I’ve been toying with automated and scripted deployments of vCSAs and ESXi recently so thought I’d do a quick run through deploying an additional embedded vCSA in Enhanced Linked Mode via CLI. This topology is
Read moreRemove Enhanced Link Mode vCenters from Inventory with cmsso-util
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
Read moreDeploy VMware vCSA with CLI Installer
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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