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Enabling Zerto Plugin in vSphere Web Client 6.5

Enabling Zerto Plugin in vSphere Web Client 6.5

If you are a Zerto Replication user and have upgraded your VMware environment to 6.5, you may find yourself missing the Zerto plugin that was available in the vSphere C# client. To get the Zerto plugin to display within the vSphere Web Client, we will need to edit the webclient.properties file within vCenter to enable script plug-in support. I think it goes without saying, but when you are editing any vCenter files, ensure you have a current backup. In this process,…

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Zerto Virtual Machine Hardware Support

Zerto Virtual Machine Hardware Support

Quick byte for today; Last night, an issue arose while performing a VMware 6.5 upgrade in an environment that also leverages Zerto for replication. Zerto had been upgraded in early January to Version 5.0 Update 1 Patch 1 (Build 050111005) in preparation for the VMware upgrade. After virtual machine hardware was upgraded to version 13 last night, Zerto started sending compatibility alerts. The alerts stated that the Hardware version of the protected VMs are not supported on the recovery site….

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VMware Common Logging Alarm and LVM

VMware Common Logging Alarm and LVM

In this byte, we will go over the VMware Common Logging Service Alarm as well as the dynamic resize of vCenter Hard disks. Over the weekend, I received a few traps from a 6.x vCenter Server Appliance. The specific trap came through stating the vmware-syslog status changing from yellow to red. I was able to confirm this within vCenter with a VMware Common Logging Health alarm. Normally this means one of two things: A service (syslog) has stopped. The storage…

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VMware ESXi Upgrade 6.0 to 6.5 – Conflicting VIBs HPe Custom Image

VMware ESXi Upgrade 6.0 to 6.5 – Conflicting VIBs HPe Custom Image

During a recent 6.0 to 6.5 upgrade, we ran into an incompatibility error while upgrading the ESXi version on multiple HP Proliant Blades with an HPe Custom Image. The error stated: The upgrade contains the following set of conflicting VIBs: Mellanox_bootbank_net-mlx4-en_2.0.0.0-1OEM.550.0.0.472560 Remove the conflicting VIBs or use Image Builder to create a custom upgrade ISO image that contains the newer versions of the conflicting VIBs, and try to upgrade again. No need to panic. We will check to see if…

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Upgrade vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 to 6.5

Upgrade vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 to 6.5

With VMware vSphere 6.5 being about 3 months into its release cycle, a lot of you may be gearing up to upgrade your environment. In this byte, we will go through the upgrade process from 6.0 to 6.5 for the vCenter Server Appliance. Like the 6.0 upgrade, this is a side by side upgrade. Meaning upgrading to 6.5 will be performed in two stages. The initial stage will deploy a new appliance. Followed by the second stage where your data…

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