Author Archives: bspagna

Patching Windows vCenter to 6.0 Update 3d (Error code 3010)

As you may be aware, VMware has released patches for the latest security vulnerabilities. There’s patches for both ESXi and vCenter. A client reached out to me asking if I could apply these patches for them. The client has a … Continue reading

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vCenter 6.x cached credentials and authentication prompts

I am currently working for a large client that has multiple vCenters. The environment consists of three vCenters all with external PSCs. I am helping the client build out a new datacenter and it’s to the point where we can … Continue reading

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The Resource “datastore” is in use.. (Unable to delete)

At one of my clients, I recently came across a datastore that we were unable to delete. We are in the process of migrating from an EMC VNX to a new EMC Unity SAN. Part of this process requires us … Continue reading

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Rename ESXi hosts that are part of VDS

VMware Distributed Switches can be great in large environments or even small to mid sized environments that have quite a bit of VLANs. It makes adding portgroups/VMkernels easy because, the configuration is centralized and stored in vCenter with each host … Continue reading

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Welcome

Welcome to my blog! In case you haven’t guessed it, most of my posts will involve virtualization and  some Microsoft/Networking. If you’ve found your way to one of my posts and I was able to help you solve an issue, … Continue reading

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