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Could you please please make a video on VMware EXSI patch rollback video, (basically how to role back a patch on EXSI after the update) love your stuff. thank you
Hi Amolhere, thanks for your comment, I don't think you can uninstall a single patch from esxi, but you can perform a rollback after patching, is this what you mean ?
In that case you would need to be on the console of esxi host, make sure it's in maintenance mode and reboot it. During the reboot at the first splash screen you press shift + r, you'll then be prompted to perform the rollback. There's a KB article that walks through the steps here -> knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article/316592/reverting-to-a-previous-version-of-esxi.html
Hi Alex, the licensing depends on how many vm's you need backed up and what features you need i.e. just backup or you also require CDP for DR. If you go here and fill in your requirements they'll be able to provide a quote -> www.vinchin.com/how-to-buy.html What ever the quote comes back as, you'll get 50% off that for 3 months
Great session. I have one query regarding file-based backups and restores for vCenters on Enhanced Linked mode. Somehow VMware/Broadcom articles do not give much info on this. Any thoughts?
@@sysadmintutorials that’s correct. I am not finding a reliable article from VMware/Broadcom/or any third parties. Any thoughts? I know in a snapshot scenario, we could take offline snapshots all at same time to cover linked mode. However, I am not sure the same is applicable if we schedule file backups all at same time.
From what I know, the license changes favors the big players, because the new vcf suite includes almost everything. As opposed to before they had to pay extra for additional products based on a tiering system and points per vram. For this top tier they could actually see a reduction in price. I have seen a few articles floating around about court cases within the EU against Broadcom due to these license changes, so will be interesting to see what comes of that.
@@sysadmintutorials Thanks for an informed response man! I appreciate it I had not heard about the possible EU court actions but I could see that happen.
hey Sysadmin, Great video. Did you post any video showing, how we can get coloured the output for 'Overall Status' based on the value. Is it something to be achieved using "Out-conditionalFormating" cmdlet ? Waiting for your reply.
Hi, you'll probably need to check if you system is compatible with the release of esxi you are intending to go to You can check here -> www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php
Hi there, yes you can check your existing vcpu and ram allocation on the VM and then compare it to this table: magander.se/vmware-vcenter-server-6-7-resource-requirements/
Hi, 127.0.0.1 just means localhost, so refer to itself for dns. It's the same as entering the IP address used on the host. It then talks to the DNS server and either uses the forwarders (if you have them setup) or uses the root hint servers that are there by default.
Hey Mate, Was preparing for my interviews saw your Vcenter upgrade, Host upgrade later came to your playlist and now in this ESXI configuration upgrade. your videos are soo cool, most of vmware tutorials in RU-vid will be in complicated manner you make people understand in clear way keep up the good works I wish for more subscribers coming to your channel 🙇♂
Hey there Kennedy, thanks for the kind words, much appreciated :) Best of luck in your interviews, make sure to let us know when you secure a position!
Can I use this to run two operating system and divide the resources like half ram cpu and graphics cards and switch between operating systems. For instance I have t7910 it has two e5 2660 v4 14 core, 112 gb ram, two titan xp, I want two divide everything and game on half while the other runs a complex video edit of some sort
Hi there, what you can do is build out your vsphere environment (vcenter and esxi host, vcenter sits inside esxi as a vm), then create your 2 vm's for gaming and editing.
Hi Jong, no that's incorrect. It's much more than that. Depending on the version of vsphere here are the configuration maximums - configmax.esp.vmware.com/home for example for vsphere 7 and 8 it's 768 vcpu's per vm
you would connect to it from another system. One example would be you have a windows vm running with RDP enabled, then from a laptop you would rdp to the vm. To be honest I wouldn't use this setup for gaming unless it's basic games. Complex video edit that you mentioned originally also requires some hefty ram and gpu.
Hi Scriptmaster, if you find yourself in that scenario, I would recommend dedicating some additional time to ensure you have a robust monitoring system in place. While it may not be ideal to invest extra hours after your regular workday, it will yield significant benefits in the future
Great video! and you explained it pretty clearly as well. Thanks a lot! I haven't really researched but I am assuming that the steps are going to be the same on 7.0 U3 as well.
Hello, just going through your videos really amazing. I really like to know how to colour the status and also and send the report via email please. Thanks in advance 😊
Thank you Cutlas, I'm finishing up another video this week which will be posted soon on server monitoring, I will add this to my list to ensure a video comes out with those additions for you :)
In stage 1, step 11 - configure network settings I'm not getting the FQDN and IP auto populating. This means I can only restore to another IP and hostname, but I want to restore the VCSA host without changing these settings.
You can download a log bundle from vcenter, if you login to the vcenter management interface (<your vcenter ip>:5480) and select actions, create support bundle. Once the bundle has downloaded to your computer, unzip it with something like 7-zip and you'll have the logs there. Alternatively you can use WinSCP and connect to your vcenter IP, then browse to /storage/log and download the log files you need
In a case of a server with multiple hard drives can the hard drive where hypervisor type 1 esxi is installed, be used to create a datastore? Or in that case you should use other unused hard drives? Also can you use more than one hdd in order to create a bigger datastore? If i have multiple hard drives on the server, the raid shoulv be configured before installing the esxi or after?
Ok, you would create the raid volume before installing esxi, then you can place some vm's on the datastore. Is this a single server setup i.e. do you intend to use a cluster or multiple esxi hosts ?
@@sysadmintutorials it’s a unique physical server, one esxi host, 5-6 virtual machines on it. So can i install the esxi hypervisor and then the virtual machines (in general windows server 2016 machines) on the same datastore (raid volume) where is installed the esxi or do i need a separate raid volume (datastore) for the esxi and a separate one for the virtual machines (dedicated datastore)?
You can do either. Install esxi and use 1 big datastore for both esxi and vm's or you can create 2 volumes within your raid config so the first is used for esxi and 2nd is used for vm's. Is this a production server or a lab ?
