Today I deployed a new VCSA 7 U1 and as U2 has GA’d recently I wanted to update the environment first. So I headed to the VAMI interface > Available Updates page. Immediately there was an error: Error in method invocation ({‘id’: ‘com.vmware.appliance.update.manifest_verification_failed’, ‘default_message’: ‘Manifest …

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This post is not as a end-to-end upgrade guide but a methodology guide. Everything is more or less straight forward if one uses the correct methodology. As this is a home lab I have chosen not to add complexity by adding additional nodes to the various components for High Availability but depend on vSphere HA. This …

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Sometimes you want/need use iPerf to test the nic speed between two ESXi hosts. I did because I was seeing a NIC with low throughput in my lab. How can we test raw speeds between the two hosts? iPerf comes to the rescue. I was looking on how to do this on an ESXi host. I doesn’t come as a surprise that I found the …

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Whilst upgrading the home lab I also decided to rebuild from scratch. There were some challenges to overcome because I have running VMs I don’t want to shut while migrating. My current home lab setup and the go to setup is documented here (work in progress). Basically it comes down to: Original setup: three hosts …

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There are a couple of steps which need to be taken to configure the Tesla M60 cards with NVIDIA GRID VGPU in a vSphere / Horizon environment. I have listed them here quick and dirty. They are an extract of the NVIDIA Virtual GPU Software User Guide. On the host(s): Install the vib esxcli software vib install -v …

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I decided to upgrade the vCenter Server Appliance from 6.5 U2 to 6.7 though it is not supported, see VMware KB. As this is not supported you will NOT want go ahead with this in a production environment. Maybe I will have regrets later on too … but this is my lab environment so the alternative is to redeploy a new …

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When connecting to your vCenter server via PowerCLI, one can use the -menu option. This will give a list of entries you recently used. You can manage the entries here: C:\Users\username\Appdata\Roaming\VMware\PowerCLI\RecentServerList.xml Connect-viserver -menu

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vCenter is showing an alarm on the TrendMicro Deep Security Virtual Appliance (DSVA): ‘vShield Endpoint SVM status’ Checking vShield for errors: The DSVA VA console window shows: (as to where it should show a red/grey screen) Let’s go for some log file analysis To get a login prompt: Alt + F2 Login with user dsva and …

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Start the ssh service on all hosts: Get-VMHost | Foreach { Start-VMHostService -HostService ($_ | Get-VMHostService | Where {$_.Key -eq "TSM-SSH"}) } <div class="uagb-ifb-content"> <div class="uagb-ifb-title-wrap"> </div> <div class="uagb-ifb-text-wrap"> <p class="uagb-ifb-desc"> <em>Thanks to Alan Renouf at …

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