Mastering vSphere Lifecycle Management (vLCM)
The vSphere Lifecycle Management (vLCM), a powerful feature designed to simplify and streamline the lifecycle management of your vSphere environments….
How to replace the ESXi Certificate with a Custom Certificate
By default, ESXi hosts use certificates issued by the VMware Certificate Authority (VMCA), which are self-signed and trusted within the…
How to determine which Uplink (physical NIC) a Virtual Machine is using finally to send Uplink Traffic in vSphere
In order to troubleshoot network issues for a specific virtual machine running in vSphere, it is crucial to first determine…
The vMotion interface is not configured (or is misconfigured) on the Source Host
I was running into this error when trying to migrate a running virtual machine to another ESXi host and datastore….
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…
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….
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…
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…
Upgrade the VMware vSphere Environment from Version 7 to 8 – Part 1 – Upgrade vCenter Server Appliance
In this post we will see how we can upgrade our vSphere environment (vCenter Server Appliance and ESXi Hosts) from…
