App Volumes permissions on ESXi host

We are using AppVolumes Manager on several environments together with Horizon View. When we were deploying the first AppVolume Manager I was asked to provide permissions for AppVolume Manager to local ESXi hosts to avoid using root permissions. There are guides which you can use to setup all required permissions… Continue reading

Enabling LLDP for Intel X7xx series adapters in ESXi

If you are using Intel X710,XL710 or X722 adapters in your environment, you may have already noticed, that LLDP (Link LayerDiscovery Protocol) is not working for you. And you are getting following message “Link Layer Discovery Protocol is not available on this physical network adapter” Apparently those cards have their… Continue reading

HDD failed in vSAN cluster (Softlayer) – how to replace it

In this article I would like to show you how to replace failed HDD (or SSD) drive in VMware vSAN cluster running on Softlayer Cloud. 1. Open web-client and navigate to: Hosts and Clusters -> choose Cluster -> Manage -> Settings -> Virtual SAN -> Disk Management You will see all… Continue reading

vSphere Automation with vRO 7 – Tags and vAPI – Part II

Part II. vAPI and JavaScript This is the second part of the series of articles related to VMware vSphere Automation with vRO 7 – Tags and vAPI. In  Part I we have covered the vSphere Tags and the setup of the vAPI for vRO7. Here, we will be discussing how to work with vAPI… Continue reading

vSphere 6 Automation with vRO 7 – Tags and vAPI – Part I

Part I. vSphere Tags and vRO 7 This is the first part of series of articles related to working with vSphere tags from vRrealize Orchestrator 7 Here we will discuss the tags, we’ll talk about the required setup for vRO to handle vSphere tags and will touch upon other related topics. In Part II… Continue reading

Just Another ESXi 6.0 Storage APD Handling Bug

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It’s been a while since we experienced partial outage on our storage infrastructure running under IBM SVC storage. Few LUNs (vdisks in IBM SVC world) presented from storage went offline. I’m not going into details why it happened as HW problems just happens sometimes. Important thing is how are you… Continue reading

Cross site vMotion, Default Gateway and TCP/IP stacks

Possibility of cross vCenter vMotion is quite popular among customers. But the thing is that most of the times the vCenters, or the environments managed by those vCenters, are in different sites or locations. This simply means they do not share same vMotion network. Which means vMotion traffic needs to… Continue reading

Create new NFS datastore for vSphere with NUTANIX

Recently we got access to a 16-node Nutanix cluster with vSphere on top of it. The datastore which was supposed to be used by us was created with Replication Factor 2 and we decided to create another one with RF=3, which provide higher level of data availability by keeping 3… Continue reading

Updated: Building vSphere 6 with VSAN on IBM Softlayer: Part 4 – Configuring VSAN on Softlayer

UPDATE: I do not recommend using this guide for any future deployment. The information included is quite outdated and is not relevant anymore. The article should only be used as reference for some commands. My recommendation is to check  IBM’s official offering of VMware on IBM Cloud. A lot of… Continue reading