Installing Prism Central (1-Click Method) You can install a Prism Central VM using the “1-click” method. This method employs the Prism web console from a cluster of your choice and creates the Prism Central VM in that cluster. The “1-click” method is the easiest method to install Prism Central in most cases. However, you cannot…
Without going into greater detail, we had some networking issues on one of our ESXi hosts. One of the physical NIC’s would flap between 100Mbps, and 1Gbps. This was one of two physical NIC’s that are in an active/active team for my Management vmkernel adapter. The NIC’s in a team so there’s nothing to worry…
We had a customer request some thick eager provisioned virtual disks in an effort to improve performance on their SQL Server. We explained that while in legacy storage systems, thick provisioned disks do provide slightly better performance because the systems write zeroes to the disk so that metadata is allocated faster. This is no longer…
I had a need to mount a Nutanix datastore a non-Nutanix cluster in my environment for a migration, and ran into some issues. There are a lot of helpful articles out there for mouting Nutanix datastores via NFS, such as this one here. My dilemma is I need to have the Nutanix datastore presented in…
No, it’s not Sho Nuff. After configuring a new four-node vSAN cluster, we noticed some partition errors after a day or so of uptime. The strange thing was the cluster was divided into four partitions. Four masters, four partitions – that’s not good. Let’s see what the hosts have to say via the command line….
A few weeks ago, vCloud Director 9.7 was released. There are a slew of new features in this release, which you can dig into in further detail here. I was anxious to get started with this release, and I wanted to create a walk through on how to get it up and running. Note: The…
It’s a normal day of making configuration changes to our ESXi hosts. As I’m making my way down the the line hosts, I find a single host that will not complete the entering maintenance mode task. Upon further investigation, I see that it’s a single VM holding up the process. Under “Tasks”, it says “The…
While building out a new vSAN Cluster, I received an error for the vSAN object health. I clicked the “Repair Objects Immediately” button, and it thought about it for a minute – but ultimately it was a wasted effort. The “Purge Inaccessible VM Swap Objects” button was up next. But unfortunately, like its partner, it…