When trying to upgrade our lab vcenter from 6.5 to 6.7 this week we encountered a strange error. Our lab environement is running vSphere 6.5 on VCSA and we are running with an external PSC. So when starting the upgrade of the PSC I got an error early in the process, while connecting to the source VCSA. Error when …

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Recently HPE released version 4.1 of their management platform, OneView. We use OneView extensively in our environment and are always looking out for new functionality and features in the product. Version 4.1 comes with some new promising features. Secure remote troubleshooting with Remote Technician Reduced downtime …

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I had the privilege of delivering 3 sessions at VMUG Norway this week in Oslo, Trondheim and Bergen. With the extremely nice weather in Norway this week in mind the attendance were great and as always the discussions were valuable. My session on vSphere Performance monitoring were the short version of the blog series I …

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In a previous post I've talked about issues in the StoragePolicy and Tag cmdlets in PowerCLI. I found a workaround by ignoring certificate warnings and setting my date format to en-US. Today I tried to replicate some Storage Policies from one vCenter to another and I found that I got new errors... I can export the …

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Following up on my last post on Automating DRS Groups with PowerCLI I found that we also need to automatically remove VMs and Hosts from a given DRS Group. Although I could have included this in the previous script which creates the groups and adds members I wanted to separate them. There could for instance be times …

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In vCenter we have lot's of DRS functionalities. I won't go into all of them here, you'll probably know about most of them already. This blog post will talk about the VM/Host affinity functionality, i.e. rules to keep VMs running one or more specific host(s). There is multiple use-cases for this. You might want to keep …

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This is Part 6 of my series on vSphere Performance data. Part 1 discusses the project, Part 2 is about exploring how to retrieve data, Part 3 is about using Get-Stat for the retrieval. Part 4 talked about the database used to store the retrieved data, InfluxDB. Part 5 showed how data is written to the database. This …

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This is Part 5 of my series on vSphere Performance data. Part 1 discusses the project, Part 2 is about exploring how to retrieve data, Part 3 is about using Get-Stat for the retrieval. Part 4 talked about the database used to store the retrieved data, InfluxDB. This one will do some actual work and will retrieve data …

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We are using Storage Policies on all VMs in our environment and rely on those to give the VM's the correct storage. Storage Policy based management is a key area for VMware going forward it seems, especially with things like vSAN and VVOL. In addition to matching a VM and it's storage we are using the policies to set …

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In my last post about upgrading vCenter to 6.5 I've outlined the steps I needed to do for the migration. Both pre-migration, the actual migration and some post-migration steps. Today we were about to upgrade/migrate one of our oldest and biggest vCenters which presented some additional steps to consider for the …

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