One of our clusters was displaying the following: To fix the issue simply stop and start HA on that cluster Ciick relevant cluster -> Configure -> vSphere Availability -> Edit -> Turn OFF vSphere HA -> OK Once removed turn back on Ciick relevant cluster -> Configure -> vSphere Availability -> Edit -> Turn ON Read More…
Category: VMware
Set LAG as Default for New Port Groups on a VDS
When a DVS is created and configured with LAG any new default port groups do not use this is a default. This means when new port groups are deployed in the future this inevitably leads to issues as they will be misconfigured by default. Unfortunately there doesn’t appear to be a way to alter this Read More…
Deploy AWS Storage Gateway on Vsphere
In this example I will show you how to deploy an AWS Storage Gateway on vcenter. Firstly download the OVA to a local machine and deploy within vcenter/esxi. I wont go through this process but once complete, I added an extra disk for caching and then powered it on. When powered on, open the console Read More…
pVLANs and NSX-T VDS Switch Bug
Problem When attempting to add Primary and Isolated VLANs on an NSX-T (3.1.3) Enabled VDS switch in vsphere 7.0 environment we got the following error: Unable to set Pvlan Map: Status(bad0004)= Busy Resolution There is no resolution at the time of writing but this will be fixed in version 3.2 of NSX-T Edit 06/12/2021 – Read More…
Configure HAProxy SSL Passthrough
This quick guide explains how to install HAProxy with SSL passthrough on a Centos/Rocky 8 OS. This is specific to a NSX-T Manager install but can be used/tweaked for any environment Install HA proxy Configure haproxy with front and back end servers Add following entries Note: I was able to use balance source in the Read More…
Powershell Script to Update Syslog Server in ESXi Cluster
The following script will update the syslog server of all Esxi hosts in a specific cluster Two variables you’ll need to edit are $ClusterName and $SysLogSvr
Powershell Script to Update all Scratch Partitions in an ESXi Cluster
Following on from an auto deploy install using SD cards on a Cisco UCS where we couldnt configure the scratch partition within an automated process so I wrote a powershell script to loop around a specific cluster and update all the host logs. Note: This assumes that the directories are already created. I might include Read More…
Auto Deploy ESXi with Cisco UCS
I was tasked with auto deploying around 100 Ciscso UCS blades with stateful ESXi 7.0 on SD cards with as little touch as possible for a new environment There are various ways of doing this but it was decided that the service profile name in UCS would need to match the ESXI host. This means Read More…
Get Install Date of ESXi Host
if you need to know when the ESXi OS install was: esxcli system stats installtime get Example output: 2021-09-07T17:59:32
Auto Deploy Installs ESXi with Blank Password
By default, when using Auto Deploy the password will be blank. In order to change this behaviour edit the host profile to be Fixed password Configuration This example is using Esxi 7.0 Security Services -> Security Settings -> Security -> User Configuration -> root -> Fixed password configuration -> {Enter Password}