Category Archives: VMware
How to successfully repoint vCenter 6x appliance to another platform service controller – Step-By-Step
Repoint vCenter server to a another platform service controller is quite easy. Recently I needed to repoint a vCenter in a different site to it’s dedicated platform services controller. The current setup was an enhanced linked mode of two vCenters pointing to the same platform service controller. By deploying an additional platform service controller in…
How to deploy vCloud Director 9.7 cells in HA – Step-by-Step
In this article, I will show you how to deploy vCloud Director 9.7 appliance cells in a HA topology. The installation of vCloud Director 9.7 is really straight forward and can be completed with the wonderful vCloud Director documentation page available online. In one of the upcoming articles, I will also demonstrate the migration from…
Failed to set the time via NTP Details – vCenter upgrade failed 6x Step-By-Step
Yesterday I had a scheduled maintenance to upgrade a vSphere environment from 6.5 to 6.7U2. This includes the upgrade from vCenter version 6.5 to 6 7U2C. Unfortunately I had a NTP error that caused the failure of the upgrade job. The deployment of the target (vCenter) appliance with the ISO file provided by VMware wasn’t…
Unable to perform a VM task like vMotion or Snapshot in vCenter 6x – Step-By-Step
This week I had an VM that couldn’t perform an vMotion or a snapshot task. Performing one of these tasks results in an error message as shown in the picture below: Troubleshooting One of the first steps I did was checking the VM log of that particular VM for any errors. This is very simple…
Finally passed the VCAP6.5-DCV design exam! – Exciting
Finally passed the VCAP6.5-DCV design exam! After several months of studying and failing the exam twice, I have completed the VCAP6.5-DCV design exam. They say ‘third time’s a charm’, I can definitely say that’s right! And with the VCAP6-DCV deploy exam that I already had completed on 06-Feb-2018, I am now officially VCIX6.5-DCV certified. VCAP…
How to successfully implement CSE in vCloud Director 9.7 – Step-By-Step
CSE (Container Server Extenstion) is a extension for vCD that has been around for a while now, CSE is like PKS an VMware technology to run container based workloads in vCD. Implementing CSE in vCD, allows the tenant users to deploy kubernetes cluster as a service. VMware published a well documented GitHub page, where all…
Reducing the CPU Quota in vCloud Director 9.7 results in a error
The error message We were getting an error message when trying to reduce the CPU quota of an OrgVDC to 92 Ghz in vCD 9.7: “Unable to update the Organization VDC configuration because the new value for CPU resource is less than current usage by all Virtual Machines within this Organization VDC”. The error message…
The requested operation could not be executed on VM – error in vCloud Director 9.7 – Step-By-Step
“The requested operation could not be executed on VM “VM Name”. Stop the VM and try again.” was the error message that i received when I tried to remove a specific vApp or a single VM in that particular vApp. I even waited a few minutes when we received this message, but it never got…
How to migrate vApps in vCloud Director 9.7 with ease – Step-By-Step
How to migrate vApps in vCloud Director 9.7 with ease will be explained in this article. This week I needed to migrate an vApp to an OrgVDC backed by an resource pool in a different data center. The customer needed to have an additional site where they could place their secondary domain controller. In this…
VMworld Europe 2019 – First time attending the remarkable event
This year was my first time attending VMworld Europe 2019 in Barcelona. I was very excited for this event because this is the place where you need to be for the latest updates, hands on labs, sessions and to meet up with vendors/partners. The first thing to do before going to Barcelona is register to…