ERROR certificate-manager 'lstool get' failed: 1

Posted on April 2, 2019

The other day I had to replace the machine SSL certificate on a vCenter Server Appliance 6.5. Since vCenter 6.0 the process of replacing a certificate has been greatly simplified, the certificate-manager script basically takes care of everything which is really nice. However, this time I encountered an error when... [Read More]

Conflict between EMC Networker client and vCenter Server (Windows)

Posted on March 8, 2019

I encountered a really strange issue with a customer on a Windows based vCenter server. (I know Windows will be deprecated soon but this is another discussion and it is still supported as of now). I am going to simplify what happened and consolidate the useful bits. <img src="/img/emc-networker-vcenter.png" alt=""... [Read More]

Speed up PowerCLI

Posted on February 25, 2019

A few weeks ago while working on a Nagios integration to monitor Horizon View. I ran into a problem where my script would time out after 60 seconds, very annoying. It made me notice that the server running the scripts was very slow in PowerShell. After checking out google I... [Read More]

Horizon View shambles

Posted on January 17, 2019

I started working with Horizon View for a customer a little less than a year ago. I had never used the product before and boy was life sweet. I will consider this post a mix of self therapy and archives (I know, makes sense to me). Although before ranting at... [Read More]

PowerCLI SRM module: How to use it

Posted on January 16, 2019

If you have Site Recovery Manager in your environment and you are a scripting freak like me who wants to do everything from a Powershell window, you found the right place! You can already do a lot of things with the built-in PowerCLI modules in a... [Read More]

Canceling hung tools upgrade task

Posted on December 3, 2018

One of the steps of upgrading a vSphere deployment is to update the VMware tools to the version provided by the hosting ESXi server. Like most of you know, it is very easy to upgrade the tools from vCenter. You either click the Update VMware Tools... [Read More]

VSAN host health critical

Posted on November 27, 2018

I recently encountered an issue with VSAN where the health of the host would appear as critical in vCenter. The host was still connected, the VMs still running. The health of its disks could not be retrieved and appears to have connectivity issue. <img src="/img/vsan-prob-1.jpg" alt=""... [Read More]

VMware Tools 10.3.2 - and AppDefense

Posted on September 13, 2018

Just a few days ago I wrote about VMware Tools 10.3.0 that were recalled due to an issue with the VMXNET3 network driver for Windows. It didn’t take long for VMware to get back on their feet and release the version 10.3.2 and make 10.3.0 deprecated. Can be downloaded... [Read More]

VMware Tools 10.3.0 - Abort mission!

Posted on September 7, 2018

VMware rolled out the latest version of the VMware Tools in version 10.3.0 but recalled them quickly afterwards due to an issue with the VMXNET3 network driver for Windows. In some cases the symptoms can be a Purple Diagnostic Screen (PSOD) or guest network connectivity loss. Not fun… Virtual machines... [Read More]