My VCP in 6.0 expires January 31, 2019.  I can take the VMware 2V0-622D exam.  I am waiting for an answer from VMware, I spoke to two different people and received 3 different answers.  What I was trying to find out is, if I were to take the exam for 6.5 and pass it by end of Sept.  Does my new certification in 6.5 pick up Feb 1, 2019 or or do I lose 4 months time because I would get it dated in Sept 2018?  No one seems to know for sure!  Or is it that I still end up keeping the 6.0 cert but it is considered archived for a while?

I am waiting for a call back from VM Ware but something tells me, it won't happen until next week and I can use the study time over the weekend
Thanks guys!!

We're trying to set up a veeam proxy server/rep jobs for a new client. Due to an overlapping network between an existing client and the new client, we have their firebox translate the network to .30 when coming back and forth. This translation works in veeam (their servers show up), we can ping and pull up their drive shares from our side. The only place it's not working is when veeam goes across using the proxy server and tries to talk to the host at .30.250. We get the following error when starting the job using the proxy server...

Processing FS1 Error: Cannot get service content. Soap fault. TimeoutDetail: 'connect failed in tcp_connect()', endpoint: 'https://xxx.xxx.30.250:443/sdk' SOAP connection is not available. Connection ID: [xxx.xxx.30.250]. Failed to create NFC download stream. NFC path: [nfc://conn:xxx.xxx.30.250,nfchost:ha-host,stg:582f26be-c7f9cf95-50d7-2880231c4740@FS1/FS1.vmx].

We already tried editing the host file by adding the .30 address to it. Didn't help though. So my thinking is, can we add another nic card to the host, give it the .30 network and have it function along side the existing network? Will it work the way i want it to work? Is there something else we can try?

I get why veeam is holding onto the .30 address but there has to be some way around overlapping networks like this. I'm sure we're not the first company to run into this scenario.

Please let me know if you need additional info or logs. Thank you in advance.

Esxi Patching in vSphere 6.5 with VMs running on Local/VSAN  with Physical RDM

What all are limitations ad feature we can use in 6.5 to minimize the downtime

What all backup is required with steps to be followed for VM and Esxi

What about the baseline to be used with best practice  

vCenter Patching

Great day experts,
I hope all is doing well. I was wondering does anyone know of any virtualization labs books or software that would give you a step by step (or close to it) that I can purchase? As an example, I have purchased "Lab Manual - Enterprise Network Solution Volume II: Setup An Enterprise Network From Scratch - Step By Step Guide For Dummy".
https://www.amazon.com/Lab-Manual-Enterprise-Network-Solution/dp/1519624182/ref=pd_ybh_a_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=1VWJV5XWAECPDPD1N9KA

VMware, Citrix

We're determining the specifications for two Switches to use between Windows DataCenter hosts of HyperV virtual servers and their SAN.  Is there any reason to get switches with SFP ports, given that the length of cable will only be about 10 feet and that cat 6's capacity is 10 GB (the same as SFP)?  I'm thinking that a 10 GB managed switch with only RJ45 ports would be much less expensive than one that has SFP ports.  We want to use port channel to pair ports of the separate switches together for performance and redundancy, and we want a switch with at least 16 ports.  What is the least expensive switch you recommend?

I am trying to do a Wireshark session within an Azure VM to monitor the network traffic to and from a specific network adapter within the VM,  But when I start Wireshark,  there is no interface at all.   What do I need to ask IT to configure the VM so I can use Wireshark to monitor the network traffic.

regarding the type of vlan trunk mode. what are your benefits on a virtualized platform?

good morning

I have some doubts and I hope you can clarify them.

vccenter 6.5 can not be updated directly to version 6.7, why?
Would you have to migrate the entire configuration from 6.5 to 6.7, as in windows?

The maximum size of the datastore in vsphere 6.5 what is it? 4TB? or can the datastore be expanded to a larger size?

For Servers with SQL and Exchange, the best provisioning is Thick? Is it advisable?

The name naming of my VCSA is very long, I wanted to change it to a shorter name, obviously I would have to make a storage vmotion so that the files take the new name, but since it is my VCSA I have a little fear, when doing the storage vmotion, would the disks be affected? Is it advisable to do a storage vmotion to the VCSA?

Hi,
I am using ESXi 6.0 cluster with few hosts.
I need to umount/detach datastores related to an old storage that should be removed from datacenter.
Basically I am following this:
https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2004605

While umounting specific lun from one specific host, I encountered a waring message (like this lun is used somewhere).

I noticed a VM which seems to have references to such datastore:


storage1 lun 9 and storage2 lun 1 are definitely empty.

I suspect this could be related to some previous snapshot, but I am not sure.

How can I "force" the umount in that case?

Thank you!

I had exchange 2013 installed on a virtual machine on my test Network, and it was working and I was able to send email to clients on my network. I tried to update exchange with cumulative update 20. I installed the prerequisite and after the update started, it crashed on Step 2. I reinstalled the virtual machine so I know it’s clean.
I have backed up the domain controller and the virtual machine I will install exchange server onto.   I followed the instructions from different sites, and I think I have completely removed the previous exchange installation from the domain controller.  Is there a powershell command that can help me confirm that I have completely removed all of the previous exchange installation from the domain controller.? I want to make sure that exchange will install correctly. Any assistance will be appreciated.
Thank you.

Hi

On my Azure VM (Windows 2016) two users can connect at once.

Will Windows Server 2016 Remote Desktop Services user licenses enable more users to connect?
If so, how would I assign this license to my Azure VM?

is this the right approach or should I use the following https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/licensing/product-licensing/client-access-license.aspx#

Hi

Is RDS the only way to give 5 people access to an Azure Virtual Machine (Windows 2016)?

There is one good srcipt available at Microsoft portal..

URL is - https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Vmware-VM-Inventory-report-2eca257c

when running given script saying powercli not installed [snap attached]? while its already there -how can we fix this? any path? version to be updated?

Or if nay better script we can use as tool is not allowed here,looking for some script as an alternate of rv tools

Here is script...

<#

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FileName						: 		VM_Inventory.ps1
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Created [DD/MMM/YYYY]			:		[ 18.APR.2016 ]
Updated [DD/MMM/YYYY]			:  		[ 05.JAN.2017 ]
Author							: 		Amol Patil
Email							: 		amolsp777@live.com; pscriptsasp@gmail.com
Web								: 		[]
Requirements					:		[PowerCli v2.0 and above, no restriction policy ]
OS								: 		[Windows machine with PowerShell]
Version History					: 		[0.6]
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|> Purpose:
|					To get VM inventory.

DESCRIPTION:
					This script will connect to vSphere client and get the VMs from connected VC. 
					It will gather all the VM information which needs for every Admin to have as a VM inventory to check quickly or refer in future if something goes wrong.
					Script may takes time to fetch the information as it is gathering deep information of the VM to so you can schedule the script to fetch the information.

					VM inventory output will be store in CSV format so 

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