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How to Create a Security Message on the DCUI Screen of an ESXi Host

How to Create a Security Message on the DCUI Screen of an ESXi Host

Creating a message on the DCUI screen of your ESXi host can prove useful by relaying pertinent information to targeted individuals. Perhaps you want to help your staff distinguish between production and development hosts. Or perhaps you want to put up a security disclaimer deterring unauthorized access. Whatever your reasoning be, you can do so in two easy ways. Both are relatively painless, so pick your poison… vSphere Web Client ESXCLI A few notes: Adding a message updates the /etc/vmware/welcome…

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Rename Virtual Machines and Datastore Files

Rename Virtual Machines and Datastore Files

Today, I wanted to quickly go through the process of renaming VMware virtual machines and their underlying datastore files. To be clear, this will just rename the virtual machine name as it appears in inventory. It does not change the DNS name of vm. I usually perform this after vCenter upgrades, so the new vCSA name matches the DNS name. This is a quick two-step process. We will rename the vm in inventory first, followed by a Storage Migration to…

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Veeam and vSphere 6.5

Veeam and vSphere 6.5

Attention VMware and Veeam backup users: If you are thinking about upgrading your VMware environment to 6.5, Veeam has a YouTube session for you. Veeam’s own Anton Gostev will be discussing ‘vSphere 6.5 backup gotchas’. As per the Veeam Community Digest, the session will be available to the base install group via his live YouTube channel tomorrow. A recording will be available for all others. In this session, he will be discussing topics that should be considered when upgrading to vSphere…

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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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