You may recognize this. You’ve updated your ESXi hosts via vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) or similar method, the host rebooted during remediation and… that’s it. Your host is not reachable anymore. That happened to my lab server last week, while updating it to the latest ESXi 8.0 patch release. So Read more…
In most cases VMware Tools are available as part of ESXi installation. When updating an ESXi host, the VMware Tools could be updated, but most of the time not to the latest version. In this post I’ll show you how ESXi hosts can updated to the latest available version, when Read more…
How to manual update you ESXi host with the latest VMware patches.
Background In this post I want to share with you the possibilities to remove problematic ESXi based Transport Nodes running NSX-T 2.4+, 3.x and 4.x manually from NSX Manager. Especially including the nodes NSX configuration and accompanying VIBs. To be clear, this should be your last resort option if the Read more…