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,…
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Round up virtual hard disk size
Quick post of something I ran into this week. When creating new VMs it makes sense to create disks that have a certain size in…
Clearing ESXi System Event Log (SEL) via PowerCLI
We recently noticed some hosts in our environment that show an alert triggered by 'Status of other host hardware objects'. Upon further investigation it turned…
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…
Incorrect PostgreSQL object ownership prevents vCenter upgrade
Recently I had to upgrade a vCenter Server Appliance with embedded PSC from version 6.5 U2e to 6.7 U2c. It seemed a pretty straightforward process…
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…
Slow boot times ESXi with (p/v)RDM’s easy fix
Recently we have been having (extremely) slow boot times for a couple of hosts that we’ve been using for a new customer. We actually didn’t…
How to fix an expired VCSA Machine SSL certificate with a bugged vmware-eam service
Recently we've had some weird issues on one of our customers vCenter Servers. For starters the vMotion and Storage vMotion features weren't working anymore because…
NLVMUG UserCon 2019 recordings available on YouTube
On March 21 Bryan and myself attended the Dutch VMUG UserCon 2019. It was a very busy day filled with a lot of interesting content.…