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While migrating VM’s between a 6.0 and 6.5 vCenter, I came across an error that stopped the migrations from happening. The error was “The destination distributed switch has a different version or vendor than the source distributed switch“. Comparing the Continue reading vDS version mismatches during cross-vCenter migrations
After a recent power outage that lasted longer than my UPS runtime, I found that one of my ESXi hosts wasn’t online. A quick look at the console screen showed that ESXi had attempted to boot and failed with Fatal Continue reading Fatal error: 33 (Inconsistent data)
A client of mine asked for assistance in identifying virtual appliances in their environment, in order to tag them for future work they had planned. As they had many thousands of VM’s, it would have been an arduous task to Continue reading Taking screenshots of VM consoles
After using NFS-based storage in my home lab for a number of years, I wanted to try out vSAN. This was to play with the technology itself, as well as to make my storage a little faster where needed for Continue reading vSAN and memory usage alerts for home labs
I’ve been running a vCenter 6.0u2 appliance (VCSA) since my home lab was built in 2016. Its been very stable, and with the issues of the early 6.5 versions I’ve been reluctant to upgrade. With 6.7 being released earlier this Continue reading Upgrade vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) 6.x to 6.7