vSphere Health detected new issues in your environment 6.7 Symptom: You start seeing the alarm “vSphere Health detected new issues in your environment” and it won’t go away. I wrote about this alarm with one cause: Memory Exhaustion with a Tiny deployment in my other blog. If you navigate to your vCenter appliance website (https://vcenter.company.com:5480) … Read more
How to solve the vSphere Health Issue alert for vCenter 6.7 with a Tiny deployment… memory exhaustion errors
Step by Step: Upgrade vCenter VCSA 6.0 (or 6.5) to 6.7 These screenshots show the entire process to upgrade vCenter from 6.0 to 6.7 using a Windows 10 desktop as my administrative workstation. The same steps work for vCenter 6.5 to 6.7. Is your existing vCenter server running on Windows? This article is primarily about … Read more
How to fix or change vCenter root password expired 6.5 and 6.7 Symptoms Your vCenter 6.5 or 6.7 server automatically expired your root password You left the default setting to expire the root password in your vCenter Appliance When you try to log on to the management website :5480 with root, it says the … Read more
A general runtime error occurred adding host – VMware vCenter and ESXi Symptoms: When attempt to add a new vSphere host to vCenter, an error appears after entering the host credentials: “A general runtime error occurred” You clicked YES on the certificate prompt. You have a cluster with EVC enabled, and you are attempting … Read more
Many websites will say that vCenter 6x requires DNS lookup, but these steps and screenshots prove that you can install a new vCenter 6.7 with only an IP address and no DNS. Start vCenter install from .iso file using Windows 10 vCenter install stage 1 8. Configure options for “set up appliance VM” — this … Read more
Tips, tricks, and missing steps for the VMWare upgrade Having done several small / medium business upgrades from vCenter and ESXi 5.5 to 6.0 and 6.5 and 6.7, I wanted to share some best practices and lessons learned with the IT community. Table of Contents Upgrade from 5.5 to 6.7 cannot be performed in one … Read more
