Special thanks to Jack Cherkas(@jackcherkas) for helping with this blog. The story So let me cover the scope here:1. The Customer has a Stretched Cross-Site environment, with dedicated Management and Edge clusters in each site, and a Stretched vSAN cluster for Compute (customer workloads).2. There is also a third site,… Continue reading
It has been over two years since I blogged about APD handling bug which I discovered, during partial storage outage in my environment. All path down (APD) handling and VMware Component Protection (VMCP) is not working when you have paths physically connected, but they are not able to serve any… Continue reading
I started another round of the ESXi patching recently (because of this), when I experienced an unpleasant issue. Some of my clusters failed to remediate using update manager. Hosts failed to enter maintenance mode with the following message: Current progress of remediation: 0 hosts completed successfully, 0 hosts completed with… Continue reading
Last couple of weeks were definitely busy for the VMware developers. Not only they released vSphere 6.7 U1. They were also busy fixing two critical data corruption bugs: when running VM snapshots on VMFS after disk extends using vSAN 6.6 and later Another important fixed issue is VM escape possibility… Continue reading
Most probably all of you know already, there is a limit in VMware Site Recovery Manager Standard edition, which will allow you to protect up to 75 Virtual Machines. What you may not know (I was surprised even some VMware Pre-Sales guys didn’t), this limit is for a physical facility… Continue reading
If you are using Intel X710,XL710 or X722 adapters in your environment, you may have already noticed, that LLDP (Link LayerDiscovery Protocol) is not working for you. And you are getting following message “Link Layer Discovery Protocol is not available on this physical network adapter” Apparently those cards have their… Continue reading
You may face the situation where you need to run custom commands/scripts while ESXi boot. Although it is not so common situation, as most of the settings done in ESXi are persistent during the reboot, there are some cases. For this purpose there is a file called /etc/rc.local.d/local.sh and you… Continue reading
Recently I updated a clients environment from vCenter Appliance 6.0U3 to 6.5U2. Until version 6.5 of VCSA, the operating system dispatched with the Appliance was SUSE, with VCSA 6.5 you get the new open source minimal Linux container host optimized, Photon OS. With VCSA 6.5 embedded VUM there was the need to enable… Continue reading
In this article I would like to show you how to replace failed HDD (or SSD) drive in VMware vSAN cluster running on Softlayer Cloud. 1. Open web-client and navigate to: Hosts and Clusters -> choose Cluster -> Manage -> Settings -> Virtual SAN -> Disk Management You will see all… Continue reading
Some time ago we reviewed Altaro backup 6.0. It was first edition to support VMware, a flexible architecture, easy to install and use. Considering its affordable price, these were good reasons to choose Altaro over other solutions. Altaro developers worked hard meanwhile; the product has reached version 7.6 and its… Continue reading