Tag Archives: ESXI
How to configure vSphere 7.x Auto Deploy
In this blog post, I will show you how to configure Auto Deploy in vSphere 7.x. What is vSphere Auto Deploy? vSphere Auto Deploy is a service that is available in vCenter. You can easily provision ESXI hosts in minutes by using vSphere Auto Deploy in combination with PXE boot and Host Profiles. By default,…
Unable to eject/cancel VMtools ISO in vCloud Director 9.7
During a maintenance on of the hosts I manage, I discovered that the host was unable to go into maintenance mode because of an mounted VMtools ISO. I was unable to easily unmount the VMtools ISO from the virtual machine. In this article, I will show you how to troubleshoot and eventually how to fix…
How to enable VMware vSphere authentication proxy with ease in vCenter 6.7 – Step-by-Step
vSphere authentication proxy is a service that is available in every vCenter server. By default, the vSphere authentication proxy service is set to manual and the service is not in a running state. With vSphere authentication proxy you can easily domain join an ESXI host. The vCenter server will serve as a proxy to domain…
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…