Upgrades and vCenter HA
So I had planned on shutting down my ESXi host that lives outside of the cluster, the one that manages…
Category: VMware
All dealings with VMware products (ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, NSX, etc).
Raspberry Pi Cluster
Since I first heard of ESXi-Fling that allowed running ESXi on ARM processers, specifically the Raspberry Pi 4. Why would…
Upgrades
Recently, I was looking over how much storage space I have, and more specifically, how much SSD storage do I…
vCenter Upgrades
VMware’s new Reduced Downtime Upgrade (RDU) mechanism for vCenter Servers minimizes downtime by deploying a new vCenter instance, then transferring data from the old appliance. The author shares their experience with this upgrade, noting its ease and success. They chose the Automated Switchover, had backups ready, and encountered minimal issues.
vSphere 8 Update U3 Upgrade
I am currently running ESXi 8.0u2-22380479. I typically use the Cisco Custom Image to install and update my cluster. But…
Nutanix… Failure
So, there will be no Nutanix in my homelab, not for awhile. It was an utter shitshow. Let’s begin. First,…
Battles with vCenter
Don’t mind the date on this post, this actually happened many months ago. But while going through things to makeup…