Removal of NSX-T 4.2 from vSphere 8
Kad I want to remove NSX-T from my environment the tricky thing here is the NSX-T agent is installed on each esxi host and also this is a non VCF environment.…
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Setup vSAN file service on vSphere 8 for NFS
The vSAN file service creates a share on vSAN so that clients can connect to a SMB or NFS share. For a stretched cluster you need to create affinity rules…
Installing VMware Tools the different methods
This blog is showing the number of methods to install vmtools Cluster wide vmtools update vmtool update through virtual machine settings vmtools updates through powershell vmtools upgrade through upgrade options…
Useful command for KMS vCenter for ESXi hosts
#Verify that the ESXi host is in TPM mode esxcli system settings encryption get #If the Mode appears as NONE, you must enable the TPM in the firmware of the…
VMRC client (VMware Remote Console)- allow copy and paste from your desktop to a virtual machine
Power off virtual machineedit settings of virtual machineclick vm options tabexpand advancednext to configuration parameters click edit configurationadd the following Click ok and power on virtual machine Done
KMS Server for vCenter (Not Native Key Provider)
The following has two different ways to have a KMS server for vCenter and not the native key provider on vCenter. I used this for testing purposes. One is with…
vCheck script – make it pass through credentials and example
So what I did was first modify the vcentercreds.xml file to pass through the details, you need to ensure that this account has global permissions in vCenter New-VICredentialStoreItem -Host vcenterserverfqdn…
Installing vCenter on a new vSAN environment OR your first host
So, the scenario is you have built your first ESXi host that will be a part of a vSAN cluster and you want to put that new vCenter you built…
Snapshot the virtual machine’s memory option
This may seem very basic but I thought ill go through it as I don’t see many peoples or companies using the option to include in memory when taking a…
Update drivers on intel nuc for USB Network Native Driver (ESXi 8)
The below example is updating my inuc usb network drivers from esxi command line.