I recently migrated a few vSphere environments with external PSC’s to vSphere 7 and noticed some PSC leftovers afterwards. Now a lot is already written about the deprecation of the External Platform Services Controller (PSC) deployment model so I will not go into this. What I do want to highlight is the importance of the […]
Migrating to embedded PSC, mind the decommission order.
Posted by Kenneth van Ditmarsch on July 9, 2020
https://virtualkenneth.com/2020/07/09/migrating-to-embedded-psc-mind-the-decommission-order/
Batch migrate VM’s with VMware Cross vCenter vMotion (Fling)
VMware already features Cross vCenter Migrations since vSphere 6.0. The biggest constraint for this feature is that you can’t use it via the vSphere Web Client if the vCenter Server instances are not in Enhanched Linked Mode and within the same vCenter Single Sign-On domain. (a full list of requirements can be found here.) If […]
Posted by Kenneth van Ditmarsch on December 19, 2018
https://virtualkenneth.com/2018/12/19/batch-migrate-vms-with-vmware-cross-vcenter-vmotion-fling/
Filtering and Auditing within vRealize Log Insight
The article below describes one of the ways to implement vRealize Log Insight into an environment where a (security departments) syslog server is already available and where this server ideally only receives filtered events and auditing information around changes to the filters. Let’s start of by saying that with the introduction of ESXi6, VMware makes […]
Posted by Kenneth van Ditmarsch on January 10, 2017
https://virtualkenneth.com/2017/01/10/filtering-and-auditing-within-log-insight/
New-DeployRule : Cannot process argument transformation
While doing some vSphere 6 Auto Deploy development I found out that when using PowerCLI 6.3 R1 (latest release when writing this article) and using the New-DeployRule command you will receive an error message stating: New-DeployRule : Cannot process argument transformation on parameter ‘Item’. Unsupported version URI urn:rbd1/3.0
Posted by Kenneth van Ditmarsch on March 29, 2016
https://virtualkenneth.com/2016/03/29/powercli/
Reset VMware Auto Deploy Database to default
One of the things that the VMware Auto Deploy Database contains is the ESX Images that are uploaded and related to the DeployRules that are created. For instance, if I add an ESXi Image to the software depot and create a new DeployRule using the following commands: Add-EsxSoftwareDepot “VMware-ESXi-6.0.0.update01-3380124.x86_64-Dell_Customized-offline-bundle-A04.zip” Get-EsxImageProfile | ft -autosize New-DeployRule -Name […]
Posted by Kenneth van Ditmarsch on March 11, 2016
https://virtualkenneth.com/2016/03/11/reset-vmware-auto-deploy-db-to-default/
The OVF package is invalid and cannot be deployed.
While deploying a random OVF image within vSphere I received the following error message: The provided network mapping between OVF networks and the system network is not supported by any host.
Posted by Kenneth van Ditmarsch on January 15, 2016
https://virtualkenneth.com/2016/01/15/the-ovf-package-is-invalid-and-cannot-be-deployed/
NSX bug while using Logical Switch as a Destination in the Edge Firewall
While working on a cool VMware NSX project we have discovered a bug within the Edge Firewall when using a “Logical Switch” as a “Destination”. Lets first start off with making troubleshooting easy and adding the “Rule Tag” and “Log” information to the Firewall view.
Posted by Kenneth van Ditmarsch on September 18, 2015
https://virtualkenneth.com/2015/09/18/nsx-bug-while-using-logical-switch-as-a-destination-in-the-edge-firewall/
Creating a single bootable ISO with HP SPP and MSB
This blog post will guide you through the process of creating a single bootable ISO file which consists of the latest HP Service Pack for Proliant (SPP) ISO and an additional HP Maintenance Supplement Bundle (MSB) which is delivered in a ZIP format. Additionally you can add single “Firmware Supplemental Updates” as well. The HP […]
Posted by Kenneth van Ditmarsch on December 5, 2014
https://virtualkenneth.com/2014/12/05/create-single-bootable-iso-hp-spp-msb/
Unresponsive/BSOD VM’s on ESXi 5.1 and 5.5
Since a few days I got several customers complaining about unresponsive or blue screening VM’s (both Windows 2008 and 2012) on ESXi5.1 and 5.5 environments. Troubleshooting at the customer site pointed out that the vnetflt.sys driver was causing these issues. This driver is part of the vShield Endpoint components that are installed whenever you a) explicitly […]
Posted by Kenneth van Ditmarsch on November 6, 2014
https://virtualkenneth.com/2014/11/06/unresponsivebsod-vms-esxi-5-1-5-5/
Failed to attach filter ‘pxdacf_filter’
During a recent customer visit we had a testing environment available on where some VM’s couldn’t be powered on/vMotionned to some of the ESXi Hosts. The error message: An error was received from the ESX host while powering on VM xxxxx. Failed to start the virtual machine. Module DevicePowerOn power on failed. Unable to create virtual […]
Posted by Kenneth van Ditmarsch on September 9, 2014
https://virtualkenneth.com/2014/09/09/failed-attach-filter-pxdacf_filter/
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