Archive for the ‘VMware vSphere 7’ Category
VMware vSphere 7.0 Update 3 – what’s new technical overview
Donnerstag, September 30th, 2021VMware vSphere 7.0 Update 3 – is going to be released
Dienstag, September 28th, 2021Booting VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi 7.x) from SD/USB devices – time to reconsider when buying new hardware
Samstag, September 18th, 2021
VMware strongly advises that you move away completely from using SD card/USB as a boot device option on any future server hardware
VMware vSphere 7.0 Update 2c – was released
Freitag, August 27th, 2021Microsoft Windows 11 Insider Preview – how to run as a VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi 7.0 Update 2a) VM
Donnerstag, August 26th, 2021VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi 7.x) – Options Thin Provisioned Thick Provisioned (lazily zeroed) Thick Provisioned (eagerly zeroed)
Montag, August 23rd, 2021English Version
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi 7.x) – Optionen Thin Provisioning Thin Provisioning (Träge nullgesetzt) Thin Provisioning (Stark nullgestetzt)
Montag, August 23rd, 2021German Version
VMware OVF Tool 4.4.1 – deployed an OVF with NVRAM is not supported
Dienstag, August 10th, 2021E:\PC_SAVE\VMwareESXi-Backup>C:\“Program Files\VMware\VMware OVF Tool\ovftool.exe“ –datastore=“HDD500GB“ –diskMode=thin –name=VA-DB-I-029 F:\PC_SAVE\VMwareESXi-Backup\medico27SystemWorkshopTemplate\VA-DB-I-029\VA-DB-I-029.ovf vi://root:<password>@192.168.1.143
Opening OVF source: F:\PC_SAVE\VMwareESXi-Backup\medico27SystemWorkshopTemplate\VA-DB-I-029\VA-DB-I-029.ovf
The manifest validates
Opening VI target: vi://root@192.168.1.143:443/
Deploying to VI: vi://root@192.168.1.143:443/
Transfer Failed
Error: Failed to read from file: VA-DB-I-029-file1.nvram
Warning:
– for ‚VA-DB-I-029-file1.nvram‘ (specified: 0, actual 8684).
Completed with errors
Once exported, edit the OVF file and remove all the NVRAM entries
<File ovf:id=“file3″ ovf:href=“<VM Name>.nvram“ ovf:size=“8684″/>
<vmw:ExtraConfig ovf:required=“false“ vmw:key=“nvram“ vmw:value=“ovf:/file/file3″/>
If using the OVFtool make sure to use the –skipManifestCheck this allows the OVF to be created after removing the references to NVRAM without this command the OVF Tool would not be able to confirm the manifest file and will return an error
E:\PC_SAVE\VMwareESXi-Backup>C:\“Program Files\VMware\VMware OVF Tool\ovftool.exe“ –datastore=“SSD500GB“ –diskMode=thin –name=VA-DB-O-028 –skipManifestCheck F:\PC_SAVE\VMwareESXi-Backup\medico27SystemWorkshopTemplate\VA-DB-O-028\VA-DB-O-028.ovf vi://root:<password>@192.168.1.143
Opening OVF source: F:\PC_SAVE\VMwareESXi-Backup\medico27SystemWorkshopTemplate\VA-DB-O-028\VA-DB-O-028.ovf
The manifest does not validate
Opening VI target: vi://root@192.168.1.143:443/
Deploying to VI: vi://root@192.168.1.143:443/
Transfer Completed
Warning:
– The manifest is present but user flag causing to skip it
Completed successfully
Microsoft Windows 11 – Insider Preview running as a VMware ESXi 7 VM
Samstag, August 7th, 2021RVTools 4.1.4 – Free VMware best practices and health analyzer
Mittwoch, Juli 21st, 2021RVTools 4.1.4 – Free VMware best practices and health analyzer
VMware vSphere 7.0 Update 2a – to house a Microsoft Windows Server 2022 installation
Dienstag, Juli 20th, 2021
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi 7.x) – changing the MAC address of a hosted virtual machine
Dienstag, Juli 6th, 2021 Static MAC address „00:50:56:XX:YY:ZZ“ in this example XX must be a valid hexadecimal number between 00h and 3Fh and YY and ZZ must be valid hexadecimal numbers between 00h and FFh – e.g. „00:50:56:01:01:01“
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi 7.x) – convert a thick provisioned disk to a thin disk
Sonntag, Juli 4th, 2021- Check VMware hard disk type
- Shut down VM
- Enable SSH on VMware ESXi host
- SSH into the ESXi host
- Navigate to the VM folder
- Clone the VMDK to a thin provisioned disk using vmkfstools
vmkfstools -i <sourcename>.vmdk -d thin <targetname>.vmdk
- Rename old flat file
- Rename new flat file
VMware OVF Tool 4.4.1 – User’s Guide
Sonntag, Juli 4th, 2021
VMware OVF Tool 4.4.1 – Chunking or Splitting OVF Packages
Sonntag, Juli 4th, 2021VMware OVF Tool – some file systems have a restriction on maximum file size for example FAT32 allows files only up to 2GB you can split the OVF files from a generated package into pieces of a specified maximum size