Another Veeam 9.5 U3a with VMware vSphere 6.7 U2 trick
In a previous post I posted back in december 2018 (CLICK HERE) we experienced issues while using on of our Veeam 9.5U3a environments together with…
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How to: Fix vMotion issues because of Emulex driver logging
Recently I was troubleshooting an environment that had some weird issues regarding the centralized VMware Tools repository that we configured. I will not bore you…
Resolving the mysterious and unknown issues with the PowerCLI Tag cmdlets!
Introduction to vSphere Tags VMware vSphere Tags is a way to attach metadata to VMware vCenter inventory objects to make it easier to find and…
Using localcli on ESXi for troubleshooting
Just a small ESXi Pro tip this time. I recently had a host that was experiencing issues and the management services were unresponsive. This is…
Ancient VMware View Scripted Reporting
A while ago I was working on a very very old VMware View environment. Yes, you’ve read this correctly, a VMware View environment. This is…
How to fix Veeam VM replication error ‘The given key was not present in the dictionary.’
Recently I’ve been getting an error on one of my replication jobs in one of our Veeam environments. The error message was a bit vague,…
VMCI Sockets bug and missing MSR partition prevents VSS-aware backup (fixed)
Recently I had to do just that when a customer I recently on-boarded to our vSphere platform was having issues creating a VSS-aware backup. Even…
How to fix: vSphere VUM: GUI error that prevents upgrades!
If you, as a vSphere Administrator, regularly update a vSphere environment you should be using vSphere Update Manager. vSphere Update Manager is the tooling that…
How to shrink VCSA logical volumes before an upgrade
I found that especially when you migrate Windows vCenter servers to the VCSA you might end up with a deployment size that is less than…
Remediating Host with ESXi 6.5 VUM “The host returns esxupdate error code:15 error
The other day I was patching a couple of hosts on one of our environments. All worked out fine until I got one host that…