VMware Tools Is Now a Separate Product – VMware vSphere Blog
https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2020/11/vmware-tools-is-now-its-own-product.html
ESXi-on-Arm is real and VMware will use it to run networks, storage, and security on SmartNICs • The Register
https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/29/esxionarm_is_real_and_vmware/
ESXi upgrade operation failed – Error: permission denied on Dell server
Not long ago I came across this problem in groped to update a esxi update1 5.5 from version to version update3 on a Dell R630 server arrived with esxi preinstalled on a raid1 two SD cards. The attempt to update is made by inserting the CD at the server boot time (in reality […]
vSphere 6 Agent can’t send heartbeats: host is down
Last week I updated a small infrastructure composed by two vsphere nodes and a vcenter from vsphere 5.5 to vsphere 6 going to the vcenter in the appliance format. The customer had not provided a DNS, and then we tried to work around the problem by using the hosts file of the vcenter and the two esxi hosts […]
In vSphere 5.5 the Rescan All does not show new lun after patching.
This is an error encountered during the installation of an infrastructure of 3 nodes with a SAS storage 12G (in this case an MD3420) After applying the patch 5.5.0 2068190 (update2) to 5.5.0 2718055 the Rescan All does not show the new LUN while the old ones still works. This is due to a […]
Vmware console error: Unable to connect to the MKS
This is an error I often see at customers when trying to open a virtual machine console: “unable to connect to the mks” The error is not so clear, but at 99,9% is due to incorrect DNS resolution, in other words….. if you have connected to the vcenter from a client, the […]
NetScaler VPX loses network connectivity on VMware ESXi 5
This is a workaround, Citrix is actively working on this problem, You can follow any updates on this issue through the ID number # 0510673. The following are the workarounds for this issue: Workaround 1 Install NetScaler VPX appliance on a previously known good VMware version and build. Workaround 2 SSH and log on to Citrix NetScaler VPX appliance […]
Differences between ESX and ESXi, free and paid license
I decided to write this short post because talking with customers I still listen a lot of people say that esxi is nothing more than the free version of vmware hypervisor….. once and for all: IT IS NOT’ SO!!!! Start by saying that from version 5 of vSphere exists ONLY esxi so it is not for sure […]
