We have ESXi 6.0 hosts with vCenter appliance version 6.7. Needed to move vCenter and ESXi hosts to a new IP subnet. Changed IP address of vCenter a few weeks ago without a problem.

Yesterday, after putting an ESXi host in Maintenance mode, I changed its management IP and after hours of troubleshooting, the ESXi started responding on new IP, with old name. (There is redundancy in links.) However we cannot reconnect this ESXi host back to vCenter now.

This host and vCenter are on the same subnet. (They can ping each other.)  I have restarted management service of host a few times. Have also rebooted host and vCenter. Still get the same error: "Cannot contact the <> host (10.0.xx.xx). The host may not be available on the network, a network configuration problem may exist, or the management services on this host may not be responding."
Please advise. Thanks.

how is the vmkdump files getting created on datastores.

hi guys

One of our directors has asked me some questions about what we could do in the future to reduce the need for I.T presence at one of our countries and instead have it so that the support is almost entirely run from the U.K instead.

The site at our other country has two separate sites. One is a warehouse, the other is an office. The total number of users at both sites together is around 100 users. There are firewalls at both sites. There are VPN's connecting both sites. Those sites are also connected to us in the U.K

I mean, one of the only ways to reduce the I.T presence in one place is by reducing the types of physical hardware/equipment which would constantly require physical presence, right? So things like switches, PC's dying on you, printers, file storage, SAN disks needing replacement, you name it all will require some level of physical intervention.

By heading towards Office 365 and Exchange online, would you say that helps slightly reduce the overhead?

Along with that, how about instead of having PC's that are powerful, have decent thin clients and have high enough bandwidth to give them connectivity to their own virtualised machine on like a cluster of Vmware/Hyper-V servers on a SAN that have been spun up for them. So that would then reduce the possibility of hardware/disk failures on site and instead have them run on virtual terminals. Are there performance issues with that? Are the costs in the longer term reduce and is the quality …

I am looking for desktop imaging system recommendations. A little background, we are currently using Acronis but have outgrown it. I am looking into Quest Kace and SmartDeploy.

I am liking the features of SmartDelpoy much more and would prefer to have a more modern imaging system like that as opposed to Kace. I know there are other options out there like VMWare Workspace ONE, Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager, and CloneZilla.

Does anyone have any experience with any of these or would be able to recommend something better? We would prefer a cloud solution, if there is one.

VMWare Host complaining about a fault. Lost connection to NFS Server. Whats confusing to me, nothing has been lost- everything is up and working fine. the only thing I did a while back was add an additional host as a test then took it out of the farm. ive restarted everything too and still getting same error.

Not sure how to further troubleshoot this.

Hi,
I am re-building my Veeam serveur moving for 4.x to 9.5 and want to be sure and safe I'm doing the right thing,

A consultant put in place a few jobs but didn't seems that sure of the configs to put.
I want a full backup set out every friday and full on-site every nights (one to a NAS and one to a local USB drive)

My main job goes to a NAS.
As 20 restore points
"Configure secondary destinations for this job" is not check
It's a Incremental
"Enable application-aware processing" is checked
"Enable guest file indexing" is checked
runs daily

got a Weekly on F: drive
1 restore point
"Configure secondary destinations for this job" is not check
Incremental
"Active full backup - Create active full backups periodically on Thursday"
This job I remove every Fridays and bring home and I rotate it using 8 hd
"Enable application-aware processing" is checked
"Enable guest file indexing" is not checked
Runs everyday at 8pm

And got a BackupCopy job called "backup on external drive"
Target is E: removable HD
31 restore points
Runs continuous

1- Is all configs efficient?
2- And is there anyway on the job "backup on external drive" I could bitlocker that drive when it is not in use.
I activated bitlocker but coudn't create a batch job that would decrypt before backup and re-crypt afterwards.

tx!

I have 5 ESXI hosts. All EXI Hosts can see/have connections to 2 HP fibre Sans and a few ISCSI SANS.
Each ESXI has an add on HP 8GB FC to PCI Express HBA Card.

one of the ESXI host had the system board replaced. When ESXI came back up, it had no problems seeing the ISCSI SANS. But it was unable to see the 2 HP fibre SAN. Looking at the storage adapters, Vsphere client shows "VMHBA1 fibre Channel unknown" while "VMAHBA2 Fibre Channel online"

I have rescan for hardware changes. I see no options to re-attached/mount storage back. How do I get the VMHBA2 to reconnect to the HP SAN? All the other ESXI hosts can see it.

HI Exeprts

we upgraded our Vcenter to 6.7  9433894    on windows

and our ESXI servers to  VMware ESXi, 6.7.0, 8169922


my question that i heard that Vmware will stop Vcenter on Windows . is this right and on which version

plus is really the appliance will be good enough to cover all we need . our vcenter on windows with MSSQL DB standard edition work very well

and what about the new appliance is really can cover third party plugins and vcenter linked mode  etc

plus they said in 6.7  they will have full HTML GUI and flash will go away in which version

also said for GPU sharing with new version we can make Vmotion  even if the VM on

kindaly advice

I'm looking for some feedback or ideas on how to handle multiple HTTPS servers sharing same public IP behind a SonicWALL.

For example:

https://exchange.mydomain.com/owa = flows to Exchange server
https://application.mydomain.com/app = flows to application server

My client has an on-prem Exchange server.  I know from experience that you cannot just use a redirected port with Exchange because the server is constantly rewriting the URL (minus the modifications) making it inaccessible.  Exchange must use 443.

However, my client also wants to publish another site, on another IIS server on the same LAN as the Exchange server, behind the same Public IP, and is not keen on using a custom port.  The desire is to keep the URL as simple as possible for all the staff in the field.  This new IIS server will see a lot of traffic and is considered Mission Critical.

I know with the SonicWALL I could split the Internet connection, get a second Public IP from the ISP, therefore providing a second WAN interface.  That would solve the problem by presenting a second Public IP, but it would also have a negative effect on the available bandwidth for the first WAN connection.

There is absolutely no interest in moving Exchange to another port.  I'm not even sure that's entirely possible, but even if it is, Exchange is too well established where it is, and since it's already working I'd rather not tip over that apple cart regardless.

SonicWALL has a feature that I've seen called …

Wondering how to combine output from get-vm and get-adcomputer into the same CSV.

I am doing a project where I need to update VMWare Tools, but only dev domain joined Windows servers.

I am hoping to combine the outputs from get-vm and get-adcomputer into a master list, and matches records based on "Name".

For example:

$ADServers = Get-ADComputer -Filter {(OperatingSystem -like "*windows*server*") -and (Enabled -eq "True")}
$VMs = get-vm

CSV includes $VMs.Name, $ADServers.Name, $ADServers.DistinguishedName, $VMs.PowerState

$ADServers.Name and $VMs.Name should match in theory, however not all VMS will be joined to the domain so $ADServers.Name and  $ADServers.DistinguishedName may be empty on some records.

Is this possible?.

Cheers
String :-)