This post explains the steps you could take to remove a VSAN-enabled host from a VSAN cluster without putting it into maintenance mode. You could also use this method to remove an VSAN-less ESXi host from a cluster without putting it into maintenance mode.
VMware ESX
Transforming from baremetal VMware vSphere to nested VSAN: Part One (Design)
Alot has been going on in my head about how I should transform my homelab from a simple physical box with just plain vSphere 5.5 on it and memory consuming applications like Microsoft Exchange and Lync to a nested ESXi environment where I can test new VMware features and technologies apposed to the Microsoft technologies I have seen for many years now.
Things to keep in mind when replacing #VMware #vSphere certificates
Some time ago, I replaced the SSL certificates in our test environment with the SSL Certificate Automation Tool. Everything went well, but some of the applications we were using or evaluating stopped working. This post will hopefully help you prevent applications to stop working after you replace the certificates in your environments.
#VMware vSphere 5.1 Host Profile Compliance Error with #HP Blades
Hi there!
I have spent time solving an issue with host profiles on several environments running on vSphere 5.1 and HP BL460c G6 blades, to be specific. These blades have two local SAS drives in a RAID-1 configuration. This logical drive is used for installing ESXi and provides in a VMFS datastore.
Resetting #HP iLO using hponcfg on ESXi
Some days ago a HP SUM firmware upgrade of our HP BladeSystem enclosures and bladeservers caused a problem inside the iLO user database. The enclosure lost it’s SSO session with the blades, making it impossible to login to the iLO.
Upgrading #VMware vSphere step-by-step to 5.5
Hey everyone,
Last weekend VMware announced that vSphere 5.5 was available for download and I guess everyone hurried themselves to the download section of the VMware website including me! 🙂
I didn’t have time to actually use the binaries until last tuesday and thought of myself it would be cool to add something extra to my blog; video recordings! So, here it is, my first video recording during my upgrade from vSphere 5.1 to 5.5.
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