ESXi - The Virtual Bit

The Virtual Bit

ESXi

A collection of 6 posts

VMware Cloud Foundation "in a box" - Holodeck Homelab Build

After parting with a small Supermicro Homelab in 2022 and having some time away from running my own kit I decided it was time to re-invest and get ready for the incoming VCF v9 release in 2025. Until version 9 of Cloud Foundation is out of beta and widely available

The resource 'Port-ID' is in use error when removing a host from VDS - The vSphere Distributed Switch configuration on some hosts differed from that of the vCenter Server

After receiving a warning from vCenter about VDS configuration drift I attempted the remediation methods outlined in this KB article (see Method 2). I was unable to attach the blank Virtual Machine created from the KB to the specific ports that were showing as out of sync. The out of

Hypervisor at the "Edge" - Running pfSense on ESXi as a Home Firewall

A recent requirement came up for a security feature that my existing home router / firewall could not solve so I set about looking for an alternative solution... this post will cover what I now run as the main firewall at home. If you are looking for a firewall that is

Error when vMotioning or Storage vMotioning - The object 'vim. Datastore:datastore-XXXX' has already been deleted or has not been completely created

Ran in to this error today when trying to storage vMotion a Virtual Machine, on further investigation the ability to perform a standard vMotion was also affected. I then tried to vMotion another VM on the same ESXi host, this reported the same error, pointing to an issue with the

Useful Commands Collected from VMware GSS tickets

This post is an attempt to capture some of the more useful commands used while troubleshooting issues with vCenter and ESXi in-conjunction with VMware GSS. I will add to this any other commands that I find along the way... ESXi DCUI ALT+F1 - Switches to the console. ALT+F2

Update Manager - Cannot Execute Upgrade Script On Host - unequal values of the 'payloads' attribute - ESXi 6.5 to 6.7u1 Upgrade.

Having just upgraded a VMware VCSA from 6.5 to 6.7u1 I set about uplifting the ESXi hosts only to stumble at the first hurdle. Using Update Manager within vCenter to deploy the custom HP 6.7u1 Build the following error was shown... The error thrown was pretty generic