vCenter 6.7 Memory Exhaustion and vSphere health (Tiny)
How to solve the vSphere Health Issue alert for vCenter 6.7 with a Tiny deployment… memory exhaustion errors
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Runtime Error Adding Host in VMware vCenter & ESXi
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
VMware vSphere ESX and vCenter Upgrade 5.5 to 6.0 or 6.5 or 6.7 best practices
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
Fix vSphere & vCenter Datastore Size Reverting
Symptoms: You increased the size of a datastore in the past, but now when you open vCenter, you see the old (smaller) size displayed. There may be low disk space warnings. Web client for vCenter 6.5 and vSphere 6.5 and probably vCenter 6.0 and vSphere 6.0 If you refresh the datastore information, the correct size … Read more
HP DL360p g8 ESXi 5.5 to 6.5 upgrade conflicting_vibs_error
Had to troubleshoot a few HP DL360 servers recently during a vSphere upgrade. They refused to upgrade to vSphere ESXi 6.5 with a conflicting_vibs_error Symptoms: After selecting “Upgrade ESXi and preserve the existing datastore”, the system scan presented the following error: <CONFLICTING_VIBS ERROR: Vibs on the host are conflicting with vibs in metadata. Remove … Read more
