Day: June 15, 2019

Troubleshooting: Cannot Add host “Authenticity of the host’s SSL certificate is not verified”.

Intro One of my customers wanted to change the hostname of the ESXi host. In this case, the ESXi hostname stayed the same, but it needed to become part of  a subdomain. Changing an ESXi hostname This can normally be easily done in the following way: Migrate VMs, offline VMs and templates of the host. …read more →

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BlogPost Series: LCM of VMware vSphere & HPE Hardware – Final Conclusion (Part 5)

Final Conclusion Like I said in the beginning of the blogpost series, Life Cycle & Patch Management is a difficult topic. Which can become a big headache when there are so many dependencies within the environment, especially if it hasn’t been maintained for a while. The bigger the Jump, the more difficult it gets. Therefore, …read more →

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BlogPost Series: LCM of VMware vSphere & HPE Hardware – Global LCM Plan & Order of Upgrading (Part 4)

Intro We’ve viewed the different tools that help to manage a HPE stack and if and how we could integrate VUM with this. We also discussed that consistency with virtualization & infrastructure is one of the most important things for having reliable operations, and that you need some sort of reporting tool that can give …read more →

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BlogPost Series: LCM of VMware vSphere & HPE Hardware – Scripts & Reporting Tools (Part 3)

Intro We’ve viewed the different tools that help to manage a HPE stack and if and how we could integrate VUM with this. During the project and our research, we found out that it is really difficult to see if the VIBs that are being deployed, are consistent with all the ESXi hosts of the …read more →

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