Despite having it on my “to-do” list for quite some time, I still haven’t configured vSphere Autodeploy. Instead, I’ve written scripts to automate most of the settings that I need to apply. I’ve felt like this has mostly sufficed and enabled me to still quickly provision a host. Not long ago I deployed a new… Read More
Meltdown/Spectre Patching – Enhanced vMotion Compatibility
tl;dr – If you’ve patched everything already but still fail verification, check to see if EVC is enabled on the cluster. I found that EVC did not update itself as described in the KB article. Disable/re-enable of EVC enabled new instructions to be applied. — By now, you and the rest of the world know… Read More
vSphere Migration – The Gotchas
Yesterday I wrote a little about the process I went through when upgrading my production environment. Today, I want to talk about the issues I faced when doing so and what I learned during the project. During the first part of the project, I moved virtual machines from a Distributed Switch to a Standard Switch.… Read More
vSphere Migration – What I Did (Or Oh No… What Did I Do!?)
A quick post about my recent vSphere Upgrade! Earlier this month, I began working on a migration project to move production systems from vSphere 5.5 Update 3 to vSphere 6.5. There’s many different reasons I wanted to do so. I’ll be honest, I’m one of the few that actually wanted to get back to the Web Client. At… Read More
Google Chrome Flash Fix for vSphere Web Client
Sometime during the middle of last week, my Google Chrome updated and made it so that I was unable to access vCenter via vSphere Web Client. Currently, my Chrome is Version 62.0.3202.62. During this update, the embedded Adobe Flash Player was updated from 27.0.0.159 to 27.0.0.170. The result was less than stellar: Image stolen from @lamw‘s… Read More