vSphere removing inaccessible NFS datastores

In another quick tip, in this vSphere removing inaccessible NFS datastores. I will explain how to troubleshoot and remove these inaccessible datastores that sometimes are left behind, and we can’t remove typically. There are some blog posts from other bloggers on how to do this, but the case I had last week was not usual, … Read more

Critical vulnerability in Apache Log4j apply workaround for vCenter and NSX-T

In the last two days, the IT community has been on the alert because of a severe new security threat using when Apache Log4j, Which almost every software/tool out there uses this open-source. In this Critical vulnerability in Apache Log4j apply workaround for vCenter and NSX-T. We will go through a quick review on VMware … Read more

New vCenter 7 Update 3b how to update – now removed by VMware

— Important note: Incredible that I have published this blog post that I had written a couple of days ago and did some changes to publish and after publishing I check the vCenter 7 Update 3b Release Notes doesn’t exist anymore. According to KB86191 the patch and also the ISO version was removed from VMware … Read more

vMotion failed because duplicated IP

vMotion failed because duplicated IP

After some blog posts about the latest versions of Backup Tools is time for some technical blogging with this vMotion failed because of duplicated IP. This week had a strange issue with one of our vCenters while trying to migrate some VMs from one of the vCenter Clusters. The migrations always failed when trying to … Read more

How to add and config vCenter and ESXi hosts in SCVMM 2019

Following the previous SCVMM 2019 Series article, Install and config System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2019, is this new article “How to add and config vCenter and ESXi hosts in SCVMM 2019”. Adding your VMware environment to the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2019 is not very difficult, is very straightforward to do it. Unfortunately, … Read more

[Updated] vCenter update VMware Python failed code 3010

Note: Initial post was posted on 23/04/2016. [Updated]  When applying a vCenter update VMware Python failed code 3010. Was an update from our Windows vCenter 6.0 to 6.0 update 2 we get this strange error: “Installation of component VMware Python components failed  with error code ‘3010’” Troubleshooting the problem, it seems that is only related … Read more

vCenter issue: vSphere Client fails with “Invalid URL: The hostname could not parsed.”

Today when rebooting one of our vCenters 6.0 and try to connect using vSphere Client we get this issue “Invalid URL: The hostname could not be parsed.” The issue itself is described in VMware KB 1033990. Since there were no changes in the URL, was a strange issue. There are some options to fix the … Read more