Category: vmware

During the installation of VMware ESXi 6.5 host, some NICs such as Realtek, are not enabled in the system due to missing drivers. To enable the installed Realtek NICs we need to …

To shutdown the vSAN cluster with vCenter running on the datastore, you need to follow a specific procedure to avoid data loss keeping the cluster configuration healthy. In addition, if …

The procedure to recover a failed vCenter HA takes place when Active, Passive and Witness nodes could not communicate with each other making the vCenter HA cluster non-functional. Since …

Recently Veeam finally released the long awaited Veeam Availability Orchestrator (VAO), a solution that provides a disaster recovery (DR) orchestration engine for Veeam Backup & Replication replicas to create and test DR …

The new release of Micro Focus (former HPE) VM Explorer 7.0 is available for download and provides a number of enhancements and fixes designed to better perform your backup tasks. The …

Today VMware announced the list of vExperts 2018 and I am glad and honored to be awarded the vExpert title for the fourth year in a row. Proud to be part of this …

During the remediation process with VMware vSphere Update Manager (VUM), the error "Cannot download software packages from patch source" is displayed in the Recent Tasks area. This error stops the remediation procedure skipping …

Just received an email from Rick Vanover reporting that my Veeam Vanguard renewal nomination has been approved... I'm honored to be part of this amazing group also for 2018. This is …

Veeam recently changed its products licensing options introducing a new per-VM licensing option based on the number of virtual machines to protect. Previously the licensing was based on per-socket …

VMware released a new security patch for the vCSA's operating system Photon - vCenter Server 6.5 U1f build number 7801515 - against two vulnerabilities related to Meltdown and Spectre issues. The …