2 ways to identify which type of NIC cards are installed on your VxRail and check their connection status. 1 – ESXi Shell esxcli network
VMware vCSA 6.7 – Schedule Backup
A very cool feature available from within the vCSA VAMI is the capability to schedule file-level backups (v.important admin task imo). This procedure can be
VMware vCSA – Health Status
VAMI Login to the VAMI https://vcsa_ip:5480 as root and click on Summary to get an overall health status: Click on Monitor and Disks tab:
VxRail – ‘vCenter Sever Mgmt A/C Changed’
You may encounter this error due to various reasons such as password change or account lockout or if in this example for some odd reason
VMware vSAN – Viewing Disk Capacity (RVC)
There are multiple ways to skin this cat, in this example I will show how to view % disk capacity utilization leveraging the Ruby vSphere
VMWARE VVD 5.0.1 – BOM
Previous posts: VMware VVD 4.2 – BOM VMware VVD 4.3 – BOM VMware VVD 5.0 – BOM VMware Validated Designs 5.0.1 The following is a
VMware – Useful Links
A general list of VMware sites which I use on a regular basis: VMware Lifecycle Product Matrix VMware Product Interoperability Matrices VMware Compatibility Guide VMware
VVD on VxRail – Deploy vRealize Suite Leveraging vRSLCM (Part1 – vRA)
VMware VVD solutions leverage vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager (vRSLCM) tool for the automated deployment and the lifecycle management of the vRealize Suite products, namely: vRealize
AVAMAR VE – Proxy Client Already Exists #202
Besides the obvious, you may encounter the following error while attempting to deploy an Avamar Proxy agent using the same hostname as one previously removed/deleted:
VMware vRSLCM 2.0 – Delete an Environment
VMware vRSLCM 2.0 – Delete an Environment: Quite a useful feature especially in a lab environment from where I normally operate! As you may gather from
VMware VVD 5.0 – BOM
Previous posts: VMware VVD 4.2 – BOM VMware VVD 4.3 – BOM VMware Validated Design 5.0 The following is a list of all the components
VxRail – VVD 4.3 (Notes)
VMware Validated Design for SDDC on VxRail Dell EMC VxRail and VMware Validated Design (VVD) brief notes: VxRail was the first HCI appliance certified to
VxRail – Visio Stencils
Thanks to our prod marketing team for creating these VxRail stencils which can be used in Microsoft Visio. The zip download below contains images of
vRSLCM – Add a vROps Remote Collector
One of the cool things about vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager is the capability to add components to an existing LCM configured vROps. In this example
vRSLCM 2.0 – ‘Patch 1’ Install
For details of vRSLCM Patch 1 and associated fixes please refer to VMware KB59658 Note: It is best practice to snapshot vRSLCM before proceeding with
VMware ESXi – How to Determine Build Number via CLI
One quick method to discover your ESXi build number and version is to connect via ssh and run the following command from the ESXi console:
VMware vRSLCM 2.0 – Import Brownfield Environment
vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager (vRSLCM) v2.0 is a centralized way to manage the vRealize suite of products from a single pane of glass, allowing users
VxRail – Basic vSAN Overview
The following post provides a basic overview of how the VxRail Appliance disk groups are configured and viewed from both the VxRail Manager and the
VxRail – How to Check ‘PTAgent’ Status
VxRail manager utilizes the PTAgent running on the ESXi hosts as part of a VxRail cluster in order to pull hardware related information from the
VxRail Mgmt Pack for vROPS – Example Alert
For a detailed overview of the VxRail Management Pack for vROps please refer to the excellent post by Steve Hegarty: VxRail Management Pack for vROps This post
