VMware ESXi 5.5 u1 PSOD on HP ProLiant G7 PSOD
For the past few weeks I’ve been working with a customer to resolve an issue with a re-purposed host where it PSOD every week. Issue: We installed a new HP Gen8 server as a production host in their...
View ArticleVMware 5.1 vCenter Appliance – Call “EventHistoryCollector.SetLatestPageSize”...
So I noticed an issue when using the vSphere Client to connect to the VMware vCenter Server Appliance was appearing every now and again. Call “EventHistoryCollector.SetLatestPageSize” for object...
View ArticleUsing VMware Update Manager to automatically download HP Drivers to ESXi
I stumbled across this little gem of a post yesterday, I tried to use the WordPress reblog feature, but it’s not working, so thanks to Kalle who wrote it. So I’m going to blog it using screenshots from...
View ArticleHP-AMS Driver causes ESXi memory leak
So basically I had a customer hit by a known HP-AMS driver issue (KB2085618), the symptons were as follows; Unable to vMotion a VM to another host, gives “operation timed out error” If power off VM,...
View ArticleUpgrade VCSA to VMware vCenter 6
So I jumped right in and upgraded my VCSA 5.5 to VCSA 6, you can find the official documentation and upgrade steps here. Pre-Reqs from VMware Verify that the clocks of all machines on the vSphere...
View ArticleUsing VMware Update Manager to automatically download Dell Drivers to ESXi
Last year I wrote about how to use VMware Update Manager to download HP Drivers for ESXi, Since then I’ve also found out you can add the following Dell repository into VMware Update manager;...
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Upgrading VMware vSphere 5.5 to vSphere 6.5 (VMUG Presentation)
Blog post born from a VMUG Presentation Mid Feb, one of the London VMUG leaders posted on twitter, looking for someone to present on the subject of “upgrading from vSphere 5.5 to vSphere 6.5”. Anyone...
View ArticlevBrownbag Session – Upgrading from vSphere 5.5 to 6.x
VMworld 2018, I was lucky enough to get my name down on the list to present on the vBrownbag stage, a community driven source of brilliant knowledge articles, videos, and web meetings, for the...
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