Virtual Machine not pinging -How to troubleshoot?
Trouble Scenario My test VM with a static IP 10.x.x.27 stopped pinging after host migration I was trying to find an answer for 2 questions Why my VM stopped pinging after migration ? why...
Category: Virtualization
vMotion failed at 21%, How To Troubleshoot?
Problem : vMotion failed at 21% Steps:1 Find IP address of source ESXi server using esxcfg-vmknic -l command 2> Are you able to ping any other server ? use vmkping -I command vmkping -I...
(Automation) Proper way of unmounting multiple datastores from ESXi Host
Recently I was facing an issue while detaching vSphere datastores from ESXi hosts. I removed the luns from esxi hosts but the luns where still present on the hosts as detached luns. So question...
Do You Like Automation? (VMware Only)
Recently I was reviewing my environment and found that many of my VMs are not in any DRS rule. So I was looking an easy way to find missing VMs. Unfortunately I could not...
VMware Virtual networking -vDistributed Swith(vDS)
Today I am going to discuss VMware Virtual networking .I will be showing you step by step process of configuring a vDistributed switch Virtual networks in VMware is not that different from physical networks....
ESXi host not responding
In my experience troubleshooting is a challenging task especially when it comes to Production case because each second count .There are lot of things to check before identifying the real root cause which if...
