While I was looking into various ways to restore an ESXi config backup I came across a bug. If you read VMware’s documentation about how to restore an ESXi config backup (you can find that here) you will see that it is full of references saying the build numbers must match. The bug is that…
Knowing your ESXi Build Number can be very useful. It’s really easy to do with vCenter. Without vCenter it’s not as straight forward. Here are a few ways to get your build number when you don’t have vCenter. Console If you have access to the console of the ESXi host via IPMI or iLO or iDRAC…
I needed to get geoSCOUT working in VMware Horizon but geoLOGIC doesn’t officially support publishing geoSCOUT to systems like Citrix, RD Web, and Horizon. Due to the way that geoSCOUT works you can’t just launch the geoSCOUT exe and have it work. On the first launch a user would normally run the geoSCOUT Desktop_Build_NonAdmin_v8.exe installer…
Something that has annoyed me with VMware when compared to Hyper-V is the fact that Hyper-V lets you paste into the VM console. By default VMware has that disabled but you can manually enable it. Doing that is kind of slow so I wrote a script with PowerCLI to enable copy paste on a VM.
You can upgrade your ESXi very easily with vCenter but if you don’t have that well then here is how you can do it manually. With VMware the depot files contain the VIBs and image profiles (basically everything you need). You can read more about it here.
Backups are a good thing to have. While it can be super quick and easy to rebuild your ESXi config sometimes that is not always the case. It’s a good idea to have a backup just in case. Here’s how to do it.
There are a few ways to convert a system either P2V (Physical to Virtual) or V2V (Hyper V to VMware). This will show you how to convert a system using VMware vCenter Converter Standalone Client. Before you start you should check a few things to make the whole process streamlined. Check that the system is…
Here is how to update VCSA (vCenter Server Appliance specifically version 7) with the web UI Make sure you have a backup of your VCSA. I like to have a backup and a snapshot to be extra safe. Click on you VCSA server Click on the Update tab In Update Planner select the update you…
Here is how to add a host to VCSA (vCenter Server Appliance specifically version 7) Right click on the location where you want to add the host and click Add Host
Here is how to change the host name in ESXi (specifically ESXi 7) Click on Networking Click on TCP/IP stacks Click on the Default TCP/IP stack
