Your Beginner’s Guide to VMware
I’ve recently dealt with an issue related to snapshot creation and deletion in VMware – specifically, broken snapshot hierarchies. This often happens when a backup solution like NetBackup or Veeam …
During a recent task where I had to upgrade the Distributed Switches (vDS) in vCenter, I wanted to make sure that I had a backup of the vDS configurations before …
Recently, we ran into a tricky case involving VMDK consolidation issues on a VM. Thought I’d share the resolution steps in case it helps someone else down the line, or …
I recently had to export multiple VMs to OVF templates. To simplify the process, I decided to use the OVFTool. However, I ran into an error: “Cannot parse locator.”Luckily with …
I recently had to audit a vSphere environment and identify all VMs using RDM disks.One quick method is using RVTools—just export the data, go to the vDisk sheet, and filter …
Another day, another interesting situation in the VMware world. Straight to the issue: the cloned virtual machines’ VMDK file(s) will point to the VMDK file(s) of the source machine used …
Recently, I encountered an issue while trying to remove an ESXi host from a vSphere Distributed Switch in order to complete the decommissioning process of the host. The ESXi was …
In the context of vCenter Server (the centralized management platform for VMware environments), you’ll often encounter both Appliance Shell and Bash Shell when accessing the system through its vCenter Server …
In this blog post, we’ll walk through the steps to manually trust the Machine SSL certificate and recognize it as valid on a Windows machine when accessing vCenter. This way, …