I just got notice that the VCP6-DCV exams are now available. Three different exams are being released, albeit all three are currently beta exams: vSphere 6 Foundations Time: 120 minutes Questions: 100 Where to take: Online Why take it: You attended an official VMware class such as Install, Configure, Manage, Fast Track, Optimize and […]
Disable ESXi Password Complexity
A part of my job as a VMware Certified Instructor is to update our lab systems whenever new vSphere versions come out. After upgrading from 5.5 to 6.0 I decided we should change passwords, however I was unable to choose the unsecure password I had decided to use: Weak password: based on a dictionary […]
VMware vSphere 6 upgrade guide
Finally! VMware has released vSphere 6 and the products related too. You can download from here: VMware vSphere 6 VMware vCenter 6 Here is a quick screenshot walk-through of the process of upgrading using the new vSphere 6 ISO file: 1. Insert disk with vSphere 6.0 and press Enter 2. Wait for installer to […]
How do I mount an ISO file using the vSphere Web Client?
A question I often receive from students when I teach VMware courses are: How do I mount an ISO file using the vSphere Web Client? This is obvious in the good old fat vSphere Client: However looking in the vSphere Web Client you might think: ARGH?!?! Where is it? (reminds me of Duke Nukem). Looking […]
VMware ESXi Memory HotAdd & CPU HotPlug Guest OS compability
Today while teaching a VMware Fast Track course a student asked which guest operating systems that actually supported memory hotadd and cpu hotplug. This is a great question! Lets dive into some background information. The ability to use these two features depends on three things: Does your VMware vSphere license allow it? Does your […]
VMware vSphere Web Client error The Requested resource () is not available
Today I was at a customer deploying a new setup using VMware vSphere ESXi 5.1 Update 1. Everything new! We decided to install all of the vCenter services such as Single Sign On, Inventory Service and Web client onto a new Windows Server 2012 VM. Everything went fine, until I attempted to connect to the […]
VMware ESXi Single VM is not vSphere HA protected
Today a customer contacted me with a system consisting of 3 hosts running a VMware ESXi 5.0 cluster. They were experiencing one, and only one VM, was complaining about configuration issues: This virtual machine failed to become vSphere HA protected and HA may not attempt to restart it after a failure. The customer had already […]
VMware vSphere CLI missing libxml2.dll
Today a customer called reporting unable to install the EqualLogic MEM module for VMware using vSphere CLI. He recieved the following error: The program can’t start because libxml2.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem. A search on his computer revealed that the file was in fact installed together with vSphere […]
Veeam troubleshooting: Failed to login to “vcenter.domain.local” by SOAP, port 443, user “”, proxy srv: port:0 Cannot complete login due to an incorrect user name or password.
Today one of our regular customers called with a wierd error. After upgrading their VMware ESXi hosts and vCenter to 5.1 (unsupported) they could suddenly no longer backup VMs one of their two hosts using Veeam. The log would show: Failed to login to “vcenter.domain.local” by SOAP, port 443, user “”, proxy srv: port:0 Cannot […]