I had a miniature test lab consisting of 1 host and 1 vCenter 6.0 appliance. When I installed the VCSA on the host I was suddenly unable to connect to the console of the VMs I had previously created. When I connected via the ESXi host I was presented with the following message: Unable to Read More…
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Guest Customization Placing Local Domain in Workgroup Rather Than Domain
I had a Windows 7 machine that I wanted to customize in order to enter a domain in a VMware Horizon 7 environment. However the customization wasn't working correctly and the local domain was incorrectly placed put into the WORKGROUP. In order for the customization to work correctly you need to use the following format Read More…
PowerCLI Script to Get Number of CPUs, RAM and Provisioned HDD Size
The following script looks at particular folder (finance) on a vCenter Server then for each VM gets the number of CPUs, memory in GB and calculates the combined size of all HDDs. This is then exported to a csv file. Connect-VIServer -Server {hostname} -User {username} -Password {password} Get-Folder 'Finance' | Get-VM | Sort Name -descending| Select-Object Read More…
Extending a VMware VMDK and LVM in CentOS 6
In this example I will be expanding a VMDK on virtual machine running on ESXi 5.5 from 100GB to 220GB. I will then increase the size of LVM in the Centos 6.7 guest to reflect this. Its always prudent to take a clone of the VM and/or ensure everything has been backed up before attempting to extend Read More…
List and Remove VIBs from ESXi 5.0 Host
Scenario: I wanted to remove the vcloud director agent from an ESXi host. vCloud director had been removed from the environment so I just wanted to tidy everything up. To do this you need to remove the VIB (VMware Installation Bundle). Firstly, list all the components on the ESXi host # esxcli software vib list Read More…
VMware Update Manager : Cannot Run Upgrade Script on Host
I have a three node ESXi 5.0.0 (Build 504890) cluster running ESXi on SD cards. The scratch partition is located on a VMFS datastore accessed via iSCSI. I was in the middle of upgrading to 5.5 (U2) via Update Manager. Two of the nodes completed successfully but the third failed with a message "Cannot run upgrade script on host". Read More…
vSphere HA Agent on this Host Could not Reach Isolation Address – ipv6
I noticed a message on every host in one of my clusters warning me that the vSphere HA agent on this host could not reach the isolation address. The isolation address was showing as an IPv6 address although I am currently not (knowingly) using IPv6 in this network. The IP address belongs to a Sonicwall (192.168.75.254) Read More…
Unable to Guest Customize Debian in vCloud Director 5.5
I deployed a Debian VM from the public catalogue. I then requested vCloud Director to give it an IP address from the Static IP Pool. This showed as being successful in the VCD portal but I could not ping the VM when it was powered on. I logged in via the console and the Read More…
Create SSL VPN-Plus Users in vShield Manager for vCloud Director Instance
As of vCloud Director 5.5 organisational users are still unable to create SSL VPN client connections. Instead this has to be done via vShield Manager by an Administrator. In this example the organisational network in the vDC is 192.168.5.0/24. I will give a static pool of 192.168.4.1 – 25 to the remote VPN users. The first Read More…
Connect to vCloud Director Instance using SSL VPN
This post follows on from how to create SSL VPN users for a vCloud Director deployment: http://www.jordansphere.co.uk/create-ssl-vpn…ector-instance/ To connect to your vShield Edge using an SSL VPN client you'll need to firstly login to the portal via https://{external-ip-of-edge-gateway}:8443 When logged in select the Full Access tab then click Default (which was created earlier) This brings up a download page. Read More…
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