HPE Gen10 Server SD Card issues
Background It started some month ago at one of my customers. The customer patched all of their ESXi host during the maintenance window from 6.5 U3 to 6.7 U3 through an highly automated Powershell...
Tagged: Upgrade
vSphere Upgrade process – Introduction
Disclaimer: I’m working for VMware’s Professional Service Organization (PSO) as Technical Account Manager. I’m planning already on or have finished upgrading my customers to vSphere 6.5/6.7. Before VMware I worked as Consultant for different...
Upgrading to Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 Update 1
After Veeam releases Update 1 for their Availability Suite 9.5 in January 2017 I decided that it is about time to upgrade my complete Veeam Availability Suite environment in my homelab. Currently I’m running...
vSphere 5.5 Upgrade and old NICs not working as expected
I upgraded one of my home lab ESX to 5.5. After that I recognized that network connectivity on my Distributed switch was lost. After a quick research I found out that my vmnic which...
Successful upgrade a vSphere Environment – Part 2: Backup Solutions
In Part 1 of this series I described 3 factors which will put a successful vSphere upgrade at risk. In the second part I will describe the impact of backup solutions. When I get...