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Delete a vSAN Datastore after a failed VCSA Bootstrap Installation

  • Posted on January 19, 2020January 19, 2020
  • by Mohamad Alhussein

So, I was recently deploying vCenter server appliance VCSA 6.7 while bootstrapping the installation onto one of the ESXi hosts. I faced an issue with the VCSA installation which left me with a vSAN datastore created on the target ESXi…

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  • VMware vSphere

Isolated vCenter 6.5 HA nodes “Failed to ssh connect peer node x.y.z.w”

  • Posted on January 11, 2018January 11, 2018
  • by Mohamad Alhussein

Introduction: Prior to vSphere 6.5, Windows Failover Cluster and Fault Tolerance (after it was improved to support 4 vCPU in vSphere 6.0) were two applicable methods to protect vCenter. These didn’t provide a real HA for vCenter as FT is…

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  • VMware vSphere

Offline Manual ESXi Upgrade via CLI

  • Posted on December 29, 2017December 31, 2017
  • by Mohamad Alhussein

  Greetings, With the release version of vSphere 6.5,  VMware Update Manager (VUM) now comes embedded within  vCenter Appliance (VCSA) 6.5. VUM can then be used to upload patches to its repository, create baselines, scan hosts for updates and remediate…

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  • VMware vSphere

VCSA6.5 – Failed to Upload Files to Datastore or Deploy NSX Manager OVA

  • Posted on December 28, 2017June 8, 2019
  • by Mohamad Alhussein

Introduction: From my opinion, setting up a lab and trying to break and fix the deployment is the best way to learn about the product before implementing a production environment. Beside the amazing HOL labs, sometimes you feel more confident…

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