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Re: /storage/archive 100% usage

aleex42 — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 16:21:25 GMT

However: to prevent this from happening again, I've written some Nagios / Icinga checks for the vCenter Server Appliance:

https://blog.krogloth.de/vmware-vcenter-server-appliance-monitoring/

Maybe some finds them useful

Re: VCAP DCV Design - Need Advice

aleex42 — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 20:51:33 GMT

There are a couple of unofficial study guides for VCAP-DCV - mostly for old versions (5.5 or 6.0), but they are still great for preparation.

VCAP6.5-DCV Design Prep-Guide - vBuffer

https://vbrownbag.com/category/vmware/vmwarevcap/

Unofficial VCAP6-DCV Design Study Guide - vCallaway

They helped me to pass the exam in this summer

Re: VCAP Certifications

aleex42 — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 20:45:55 GMT

For VCAP-DCV, you do *not* need any Cisco certifications ...

Re: PSOD- ESXi 6.5

aleex42 — Wed, 23 Jan 2019 12:55:09 GMT

I can confirm. In the most of our PSODs, a wrong / noncompiant firmware (NIC, HBA, ...) is the problem.

Just check the VMware HCL

Re: Is there a VMware Certified Advanced Professional 6.5 – Data Center Virtualization Design Book?

aleex42 — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 22:04:05 GMT

Same situation here

Re: PSOD on new Dell server ESXI 6.7 U1

aleex42 — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 15:12:52 GMT

Also verify all firmware versions with the VMware HCL ...

Re: Can't PING carp virtual IP on pfsense that installed on ESXi6.0

aleex42 — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 15:10:45 GMT

Do both VMs use the same portgroup? Do they run on the same hypervisor or on different?

Re: Disk consolidation issues

aleex42 — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 13:04:56 GMT

Could you migrate the VM to another hypervisor? That fixes the locked error sometimes.

Also creating a snapshot and then consolidate fixes it. Sometimes ...

Re: How to get IOPs on Virtual Machines

aleex42 — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 12:48:15 GMT

Navigate to Performance -> Advanced -> Disk

And check the following metrics:

average read requests
average write requests
read requests
write requests

Hope to help

Re: How to get the VM files of its folder in datastore in powershell

aleex42 — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 11:09:47 GMT

Your datastore is named "datastore16" not "datastore" as in my example

Re: How to get the VM files of its folder in datastore in powershell

aleex42 — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 07:57:10 GMT

Try my example with "sles12sp3" instead of vmname

Re: datastore

aleex42 — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 07:22:41 GMT

vmfs in on datastore level, right.

You should use a RAID system for your datastore, not single disks ...

Re: How to get the VM files of its folder in datastore in powershell

aleex42 — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 12:35:35 GMT

Play around with:

dir -Recurse -Path datastore:\ -Include *vmname* | select Name,DatastoreFullPath

Hope to help

Re: ESXI 6.5 got locked out and we are not to login SSH and Webaccess

aleex42 — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 12:28:57 GMT

Could be merged to thread Vmware 6.5 got locked out

Re: Vmware 6.5 got locked out

aleex42 — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 12:14:43 GMT

Yes, rebooting hypervisor means downtime for your VMs.

So better just wait for the 900 seconds and retry your login without rebooting

Re: Vmware 6.5 got locked out

aleex42 — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 12:02:14 GMT

If your "root" user was locked just wait up to 900 seconds to get unlocked.

Or if you don't have any important VMs: reboot your hypervisor, this will unlock your account, too.

I have this problem, too. Some chinese hackers are brutforcing my root account all the time so it gets locked every half hour

Workaround: very very high secure password for "root" and user "root2" for your daily doing. They don't bruteforce user "root2" (in my case).

Hope to help

Re: Unable to login VCenter VM console using root user

aleex42 — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 08:04:40 GMT

Play around a bit with your keyboard settings in the VM console.

Maybe "force to US keymap" helps you

Re: GET-VM and $VM

aleex42 — Mon, 09 Jul 2018 13:34:28 GMT

Get-VM expectes one VM as argument.

I think you have multiple VMs in $VM.

Just try a foreach loop over $VM:

foreach ($singlevm in $VM){
     Get-VM -Name $singlevm
}

Re: you have ordered a dell system with no os installed

aleex42 — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 12:28:15 GMT

Do your VM have a virtual disk?

Maybe have a look in the BIOS for the boot order.

Re: How to set ESXi host management network redundancy

aleex42 — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 11:43:21 GMT

Edit the "Management Network" and navigate to "Teaming and failover" and add the vmnic3 there (as active or standby adapter)