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Author: Niels Engelen

Working as a Principal Analyst in Product Management for Veeam Software with an interest in anything virtual and cloud with a strong focus on AWS, Azure and Microsoft 365. He is also a VMware Certified Professional, a Veeam Certified Architect and gained the VMware vExpert award (2012-2022).
Hardware monitoring service on this host is not responding or not available

Hardware monitoring service on this host is not responding or not available

Today I was troubleshooting a rather simple problem but took me a while to figure out. An ESXi host (5.0) was showing the warning “Hardware monitoring service on this host is not responding or not available” in the Hardware Status tab. The solution was quite simple, the CIM Server wasn’t running and therefor the data was unavailable. To enable this service go to “Configuration“, select “Security Profile” under Software and click “Properties” next to “Services“. In the new window select…

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EqualLogic PS Series Firmware V5.2.2 released

EqualLogic PS Series Firmware V5.2.2 released

Today DELL released the new firmware version for their EqualLogic PS Series. This release fixes several bugs. Firmware V5.2.2 release provides some key maintenance fixes for enhanced stability and performance of your EqualLogic SAN as well as improvement in the upgrade process. Dell encourages customers that are running firmware V5.2.1 (or earlier) to read the release notes and fix list, and upgrade to V5.2.2 as soon as possible. Please read the PS Series Release Notes V5.2.2 for information about updating…

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New White Paper: Stretched Clusters and VMware vCenter SRM

New White Paper: Stretched Clusters and VMware vCenter SRM

Today VMware released a new Technical White Paper about stretched cluster in combination with SRM. The document is about 18 pages full on information on the technology you can use to achieve this and understanding the options and goals. It also contains some sample scenarios and solutions on which you can base your upcoming setup. You can download it here. “This paper is intended to clarify concepts involved with choosing solutions for vSphere site availability, and to help understand the…

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PowerCLI one-liner: remove the VMware tools mounted ISO

PowerCLI one-liner: remove the VMware tools mounted ISO

When you do an “Automatic Tools Upgrade” on a virtual machine the VMware tools iso will be mounted into the VM. Unfortunately it sometimes happens that after the upgrade the iso stays attached and this will result in a warning while doing a manual VMotion. When you inspect the VM (edit settings) you will see the ISO being mounted. You can change this to Client Device and the ISO will be unmounted and the warning won’t be shown anymore. Obviously…

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VMware releases 5.0 U1 and more!

VMware releases 5.0 U1 and more!

VMware announced quite some updates today. A summary of updates released and a link to their release notes: VMware ESXi 5.0 Update 1 VMware vCenter Server 5.0 Update 1 (for Windows) VMware vCenter Configuration Manager VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat 6.4 Update 1 vCloud Director 1.5.1 VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.0.1 VMware vShield 5.0.1 VMware vCenter Chargeback Manager 2.0.1 As you can see these updates fix quite some problems :-). Furthermore there are quite some new features added. Newly added…

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