Author: kevin

I recently received an inquiry from a vSAN customer who was looking to disable the vSAN internet connectivity, which is used pull down the latest vSAN HCL catalog updates and is also used as part of enabling the vSAN File Services. Rather than using the vSphere UI to disable this configuration, the customer was interested…

As with any new VMware software release, I always love geeking out and taking a look at the new APIs have been added and/or updated that can benefit our users. Having spent some time automating various aspects of vSAN, I came across a couple of new vSAN capacity usage reporting APIs (vSphere API & vSAN…

I recently deployed the Local Consumption Interface (LCI) which is a new vSphere IaaS (formerly vSphere with Tanzu) Control Plane Service that was just introduced with the release of vSphere 8.0 Update 3 into my homelab. Successfully deployed the new vSphere IaaS (formally vSphere w/Tanzu) Local Consumption Interface (LCI) Service https://t.co/1fbTUiNjJd Needed to refer to…

I have been spending some time with the new vSAN Data Protection (DP) capability that was just introduced with the latest vSphere 8.0 Update 3 release and if you are interested in what you can do with this new functionality, Duncan Epping has recently published a blog post on this exact topic that you should…

Here is a nice protip from one of my readers, Peter, who recently came across an issue with an Intel x550 network adaptor and ESXi not listing any of the Multi-gigabit (2.5GbE or 5GbE) options even though his underlying physical network was setup as 2.5GbE, only 100MBps, 1GbE and 10GbE was available. After a bit…

Several months back, I started noticing an increase number of folks reporting problems powering on their vSphere Cluster Services (vCLS) VM when using the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Holodeck Toolkit solution and the following workaround can be applied, which came directly from the Holodeck developers. While a workaround exists including vCLS script located at C:\VLC\VLC-Holo-Site-1\vclsfix,…

vSphere 8.0 Update 3 introduces a new vSAN Data Protection capability for the vSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA) and it is currently delivered as a standalone VMware OVA (see Duncan’s post in case you are wondering where to download) which, once deployed and configures, enables a new vSphere UI plugin as shown in screenshot below….

Last week I posted a blog about how to get vSAN Data Protection up and running, but I never explained why you may want to do this in the first place? Before we dive into it, it probably is smart to also mention that vSAN Data Protection leverages the new snapshotting capability which is part…

VM snapshots are an extremely useful feature in vSphere but they can also be miss-used and retained for much longer than they should, sometimes weeks, months and even years! Sadly, having a forgotten VM snapshot for a year or longer is not actually as rare as you might expect and I have definitely heard some…

Whether you are applying a CPU microcode update through a hardware vendor’s BIOS update or an ESXi update/upgrade, verifying the CPU microcode revision within ESXi is not as easy as it could be. Today, if you wanted to get the current CPU microcode revision from ESXi, you would need to enable SSH and then use…