In my home lab I did the usual mistake of forgetting to enable EVC mode before adding my second NUC to the VSAN cluster. I got stuck for a day trying to find a solution for it, but I finally managed to solve it. Here’s how.
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Good old FTP (and cloud!) to protect your vSphere environment
Lately, I had to rebuild my personal lab after a major crash of the storage system I use, and even if I was able to restore everything, the procedure I had to use involved many manual rebuilding of the resources. This time, I decided that everything has to be protected in a way that it would be really easy to perform e restore of every component of the lab. I started with the basic infrastructure based on VMware vSphere, and I realized that, as much as it sounds something from the jurassic age, the best way to create backups of those resources was to use an FTP server!
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Error “Unable to retrieve the migration assistant extension on source vCenter Server. Make sure migration assistant is running on the VUM server” when upgrading vCenter appliance
Learn how to fix the error “Unable to retrieve the migration assistant extension on source vCenter Server. Make sure migration assistant is running on the VUM server” when you are upgrading your vCenter Server appliance from 6.0 to 6.5.
VMware vCenter Server 5.5: Installable vs Appliance
With the new release of vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) 5.5, VMware has made a huge step forward in order to make the appliance a real choice not only for test and small business environments, but also for medium and large ones. Specifically, the new limit of 100 hosts and 3000…
VMware vCenter Server 5.5: Installabile vs Appliance
Con il nuovo rilascio di vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) 5.5, VMware ha compiuto un deciso passo avanti nel rendere questa soluzione decisamente appetibile non più soltanto per ambienti di test o piccole installazioni, ma anche per ambienti di medie e grandi dimensioni. In particolare, i nuovi limiti di 100 hosts…