Using USB Hard Disk Drives for Datastores in vSphere
Because I am running out of storage in my vSphere lab environment, I wanted to extend the storage quickly and…
Install VMWare Tools for pfSense in vSphere
For pfSense we can’t install the VMware Tools as usual in vSphere and the link below will not work. Fortunately…
VMware ESXi change /etc/hosts by using the ESXCLI
Because of changing the IP addresses of my ESXi Hosts and the vCenter appliance, I also wanted to adjust the…
How to deploy a vSphere Distributed Switch in vCenter
In this post I want to show step by step how we can deploy a vSphere Distributed Switch in vCenter….
How to monitor VMware vSphere Environments in Checkmk
In my last post we saw how to set up Checkmk on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5, now in…
Set up Checkmk on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)
In this post we will see how to set up Checkmk on SLES 15 SP5 and how to secure the…
Restore/Register a VM or VM Template in vSphere
In case you lost a VM or VM template in vSphere when rebuilding the vCenter server from the scratch or…
Regenerate Self-Signed ESXi Host Certificates after changing Hostname
By default the self-signed certificates on your ESXi hosts will have a common name of localhost.localdomain. So after changing the…
Enable the Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) Mode for a vSphere Clustertest
In case you want to migrate running or suspended virtual machines from one ESXi host to another in vSphere, by…
Upgrade the VMware vSphere Environment from Version 7 to 8 – Part 2 – Upgrade ESXi Hosts
In this post we will see how we can upgrade our ESXi Hosts from version 7.0.3 to 8.0.2 by using…
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