How to detach Provider VDC Resource Pool in VMware Cloud Director
Introduction Once in a while you will have to remove a Resource Pool (vSphere Cluster in vCenter Server) in VMware Cloud Director (VCD). In this…
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How to delete invisible RT based VM’s in VMware Cloud Director
Introduction Starting with VMware Cloud Director (VCD) 10.5 VMware made a new construct possible within the product. A replication tracking (RT) VM object. This is…
VMware NSX corfu certificates expired after upgrade to 4.1.2.3
Introduction The other day we were upgrading our VMware NSX environment to a fresh new version from 3.x to 4.x. After the upgrade, the first…
How to fix VMware Cloud Director ‘Index 0 out of bounds for length 0 error’
Introduction The other day we received a fresh new warning in VMware Cloud Director (VCD) while editing a VM to add more disk space. The…
How to quickly find NSX-V KB85070 affected ESXi hosts
Introduction If you have worked or are working with NSX for vSphere (NSX-V) like me you are probably aware of the known bug that is…
How to fix the Single-Sign On issue in the VMware Cloud Director 10.3.3 update
Introduction Last week VMware has release VMware Cloud Director (VCD) 10.3.3. After a small wait from the previous 10.3.2a version but this version was the…
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…
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…
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…
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,…