The vExpert 2020 Applications opened on November 25th and will remain open until Friday January 10th at 12pm PDT. This is an excellent program and well worth being part of if you work with VMware & want to be of the vibrant community. I am currently part of the customer track and the resources made … Continue reading vExpert 2020 Applications Open →

In the last few weeks I discovered and subsequently deployed the VMware product Skyline. My understanding is it isn't new but it somehow passed me by so I was pleased to find out about it. If you too are just hearing about Skyline and wonder what it is...I would describe it an automated support tool … Continue reading VMware Skyline →

Introduction If you have installed the ESXi Embedded Host Client (Link) you might find occasionally when trying to log onto a VMware Host the following message is displayed It is a reasonably simple fix to get access again to the Host. Procedure SSH as root onto the ESXi host that is displaying the error Run … Continue reading VMware ESXi Embedded Host Client – 503 Service Unavailable →

Quick heads up to say the vExpert 2019 Applications are open and the applications will be accepted until Friday February 8th at midnight PDT. Expect the announcement on applications by end of Feb/Early March. Visit the vExpert blog here for all the information and the link to applying: https://blogs.vmware.com/vexpert/2019/01/07/vexpert-2019-applications-are-open/

Introduction While upgrading from ESXi 5.5 to ESXi 6.5 Update 2 the upgrade bundle might show as incompatible in VMware Update Manager. Investigating the error message shows that there is an incompatible VIB in use. In this case it is the Mellanox VIB for Mellanox hardware. If you don't use Mellanox hardware this VIB can … Continue reading Mellanox VIB Incompatible With 6.5 Upgrade Bundle →