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UsageMeter not sending data to vCloud Usage Insight

Today we have another UsageMeter issue I would like to discuss with everybody. I’ve been using UsageMeter since the old days so I’ve seen pretty much everything there is. But this time I was surprised to learn something new on these things. Last month while I was reporting our UsageMeter Read more…

By Bryan van Eeden, 1 yearJuly 2, 2022 ago
ESXi

Nested ESXi 7 interoperability with ESXi 6.7

The nested ESXi appliances that William Lam provides to the community are great resources for testing. But what about interoperability? Can you run a nested ESXi 7 VM on a ESXi 6.7 server? Unfortunately the answer is; it depends.

By Rudolf Kleijwegt, 1 yearApril 14, 2022 ago
Troubleshooting

Fixing the UsageMeter 4.3 to 4.5 upgrade issues

Recently we had to upgrade a couple of our VMware Usage Meter environments. VMware Usage Meter is a tool that monitors all VMware based software solutions on the licences they are using. These numbers are used to report your license usage to your aggregator. This piece of software is mostly Read more…

By Bryan van Eeden, 2 yearsMarch 11, 2022 ago
ESXi

How to recover from deleted VM files

Recently I found my self having to recover a VM that had most of it’s files deleted. They were removed by a script that was intended to clean up a staging datastore. Unfortunately the VM in question was left on that staging datastore and the script did it’s magic. The Read more…

By Rudolf Kleijwegt, 2 yearsJanuary 25, 2022 ago
Troubleshooting

How to fix VCD 10.2.2 not starting anymore after reboot

Introduction It’s been a while since I’ve posted a blog. We’ve been extremely busy on our day to day jobs, but that does not mean that we are losing focus or that we don’t have anything to write about! Today I got another great quick blog for you guys surrounding Read more…

By Bryan van Eeden, 2 yearsDecember 4, 2021 ago
Troubleshooting

VMware Cloud Director root account expired

This issue has happened to me quite some times now. I’ve had multiple VCD environments where the root account magically closed up and/or the account simply expired. This resulted in a boat load of issues that were not easy to understand at first, until I had a look at the Read more…

By Bryan van Eeden, 2 yearsSeptember 24, 2021 ago
Troubleshooting

How to fix being unable to share a OrgVDC Network in VCD 10.2.1

Recently we were having a strange issue on our VMware Cloud Director (VCD) 10.2.1 environment. Within this environment we want our tenants to be able to share their Organization Networks from one Org VDC to another. This is useful if you have a management Org VDC in which some networks Read more…

By Bryan van Eeden, 2 yearsAugust 31, 2021 ago
Troubleshooting

How to fix the Edit role issue in VCD 10.1.x

Introduction I have another interesting VMware Cloud Director (VCD) issue for everybody. On one of our VCD 10.1.x environments we were having issues editing and/or cloning roles outside of the default “System Administrator” role. The issue manifested itself and was reproducable by doing the following: Open up the VCD interface Read more…

By Bryan van Eeden, 2 yearsApril 23, 2021 ago
Troubleshooting

How to fix the VMware Cloud Director 10.2.1 Console crash issue

Introduction The other week I upgraded both of our production and test VMware Cloud Director (VCD) environments from 10.0.x to 10.2.1, the current latest available version. The upgrade went fine without any issues for production, the test environment suffered a failed node but more on that in a later blogpost. Read more…

By Bryan van Eeden, 3 yearsMarch 22, 2021 ago
ESXi

Using Runecast to fix missing NIC in ESXi

The problem In my homelab I’m using a server which contains both Gigabit and 10GbE NICs. When I first deployed ESXi version 7.0U1 the list of devices looked like this. Name PCI Device Driver Admin Status Link Status Speed Duplex MAC Address MTU Description —— ———— ——– ———— ———– —– Read more…

By Rudolf Kleijwegt, 3 yearsMarch 17, 2021 ago

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