Check VMFS space reclamation priority using PowerCli

As a system admin, we would need to keep an eye on storage usage and implement processes for storage reclamation. You can free storage space inside the VMFS datastore when you delete or migrate the VM, consolidate a snapshot, and so on. Inside the virtual machine, storage space is freed when you delete files on …

VMware Tools Update Error – The required VMware Tools ISO image does not exist or is inaccessible.

Recently, I have updated all my ESXi hosts to 6.5 U3. Now it was time to updated the VMware tools to latest on all the underlying VMs. I usually update VMware tools using PowerCLI which gives me more control over the update process. While everything was going smooth, I observed that couple of VMs failed …

Increase datastore capacity not working from vCenter

Recently I upgrade my vCenter server from windows 6.5 to VCSA 6.7 U1. After the upgrade, we did some basic validation check and everything was working as expected. I just love the new HTML based GUI, it's very fast and responsive. Now, I wanted to expand one of the datastore, so I increased the volume …

PowerCli vCenter Connection Error – The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a send

Recently I upgraded my windows vCenter from version 6.5 to VCSA 6.7. When I was trying to connect to the vCenter server using PowerCli, it was not working and I was getting the below error - "The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a send." After doing some research, I found that …

PowerCLI 10- Installation & Configuration

Hey Guys! Today I'm gonna write about PowerCLI, the most powerful tool to manage your VMware environment. If you are a cloud admin its a must have tool, start using it in your day to day administrative tasks, it makes your life much easier. Previously, Installation of PowerCli used to be done via an executable …

vMotion Failed – Error: The destination host is not compatible with the hardware version

Today we observed an strange issue with one of our VM where we werw not able to migrate it to another host, actually I was trying to put the ESXi host in maintenance mode to do some activity on host. Ideally when we issue the maintenance mode command it move off all the VMs to …