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Update VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.7 VCSA to Update 1

How to update vCenter 6.7 Appliance to Update 1 VMware vCenter 6.7 Update 1 has been release 2 days ago. Update 1 brings new features to vCenter, includes some security patches, and lastly fixes a few previous issues.…

VMworld 2018 Day 1 Announcements

Web Monkey6 years ago09 mins

VMworld 2018 Day 1 What’s New VMworld 2018 Day 1 started off with some exciting announcements from Pat Gelsinger that I want to highlight in this post.…

VMware vCloud Director Custom System Roles Not Working

Web Monkey7 years ago01 mins

Within VMware vCloud Director it is possible to create custom system roles to create different levels of access for administrators. Such roles might include Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3.…

VMware vCloud Director Cannot Import VM to vApp

Web Monkey7 years ago06 mins

I ran into an issue recently with vCloud Director 8.20.0.5070630 while trying to import a virtual machine from vCenter into a vApp. The Import VM into vApp window appeared, I filled out all the info and when I click on OK, vCloud produced a class java.lang.NullPointerException…

VMware vCloud Director Cannot Delete Additional Network Specifications

Web Monkey7 years ago05 mins

Within VMware vCloud Director you have the option of creating additional secondary subnets within an External Network. You may do this to introduce additional networks to your vCloud infrastructure while re-utilizing the same External Network vlan In my lab, I have an example of an External Network called External-Net-2 which resides on vlan 5.…

Backup VMware VCSA vPostgress Database to cifs share

Web Monkey7 years ago012 mins

One of the components that the VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) is missing, is the ability to automatically backup. In VCSA 6.5, VMware has introduced a backup feature within the appliance admin portal, however what do we do with VCSA 6 ?…

This version of vCenter Server does not support Deploy OVF Template

Web Monkey7 years ago02 mins

If you are running VMware vCenter 6.5 Build Number 4944578 or below and you try to deploy an OVF template via the vSphere Web interface, you will most likely experience this error: “This version of vCenter Server does not support Deploy OVF Template using this version of vSphere Client.…

VMware vCloud Director NSX Tenant Portal Firewall Logs

Web Monkey7 years ago03 mins

VMware has released vCloud Director 8.2 for Service Providers which now includes a new HTML5 interface for NSX Edge advanced gateway. As I take a look at this in the lab I did notice that something was missing from the HTML5 interface which is actually called the Tenant Portal.…

Veeam the given key was not present in the dictionary

Web Monkey7 years ago04 mins

I came across this error message the other day when configuring a Veeam Replication job with separate virtual networks, which displayed “The given key was not present in the dictionary” The error appeared within the Replication Job after selecting Separate Virtual Networks, and clicking Next until I got to the point where you select Source and Destination Networks.…

VMware vRealize Log Insight Installation and Configuration

Web Monkey7 years ago01 mins

VMware vRealize Log Insight is an easy to use virtual appliance that collaborates and manages real-time logs for you. Not only does it integrate nicely amongst VMware products, but it also has the ability to ingest logs from various other vendors such as Cisco, Netapp, Microsoft, Palo Alto, Solarwinds … via the use of content packs.…

FileManager.makeDirectory VMware vCenter Error

Web Monkey7 years ago04 mins

The other day I was working on a customer VMware vCenter server along with some Netapp storage. The storage being NFS mounted to each ESXi server.…

Netapp Performance Manager 2.1RC1 and vSphere 5.5 install error

Web Monkey8 years ago03 mins

There is an issue installing Netapp Performance Manager 2.1RC1 on VMware vSphere 5.5 where by the network settings do not get applied during the install wizard.…

VMware vCenter 5.5 Update 2 upgrade to Update 3b Woes

Web Monkey8 years ago010 mins

I came across a few issues upgrading a site from vCenter 5.5 update 2 up to update 3b. I’m writing this article in the hope that if you run into the same problem it will save you hours of troubleshooting and support calls with VMware.…

Linux Aligned Disk with VMware and Netapp

Web Monkey8 years ago02 mins

The process is quite simple however there are a few optional parameters you will want to use to ensure your disk is aligned correctly First up add a new disk to your Linux virtual machine via editing the config of the virtual machine.…

VMware Fixes vSphere 6 CBT Issue

Web Monkey8 years ago01 mins

VMware Fixes vSphere 6 CBT Issue VMware have release a patch ESXi600-201511001 that resolves the vSphere 6 Change Block Tracking (CBT) issue which I wrote about in an earlier blog post The Patch willl resolve the issue on ESXi 6 Update 1a Reading a little more into this patch on the Veeam Community Forums, Gostev goes into explain that applying the patch is simply not enough.…

Veeam and VMware ESXi 6 CBT issue

Web Monkey8 years ago02 mins

Veeam Backup and VMware ESXi 6 CBT issue Last week an issue was discovered within VMware ESXi 6 where by Change Block Tracking (CBT) can return incorrect changed blocks .…

VMware Vcloud Director Transfer Spooling Area is not Writable

Web Monkey8 years ago03 mins

Vcloud Director – Transfer Spooling Area is not writable If you have your vcloud director cells setup to use shared NFS storage and you do not have the correct permissions on the mount point folder, you will run into this error: Error starting application: Transfer spooling area is not writable: /opt/vmware/vcloud-director/data/transfer You can see this error message if you tail the cell.log…

Veeam Replication between vSphere 5.x and vSphere 6

Web Monkey9 years ago02 mins

Veeam Replication between vSphere 5.x and vSphere 6 Compatibility A customer wanted to know if it was possible to use Veeam Replication between 2 different versions of VMware vSphere.…

Find Virtual Machine MAC Address in VMware and Hyper-V

Web Monkey9 years ago02 mins

How to Find a MAC Address in VMware and Hyper-V There might be a time when your network team asks you to check on a MAC address coming from your virtualization infrastructure this could be for a number of reasons.…

vCenter 6 Failed to download vCenter Server Support Bundle Logs

Web Monkey9 years ago02 mins

vSphere 6 – vCenter 6 Appliance Install Error You may come across this error message when you attempt to install the vCenter 6 appliance – Firstboot script execution error.…