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…
Set up VMware Server in VMM
In this post I want to show how you can integrate an existing VMware vSphere environment into an VMM environment….
Best Practice for vCenter Server Version and ESXi Host Version
In general the vCenter version should be always greater or equal to the ESXi Host version. Nevertheless connecting an ESXi…
