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"Create a vSphere Distributed Switch"   "Status: The operation is not supported on the object" We were using CISCO ACI + vSphere for a while. We now have a new datacentre coming up and there were conversations on ACI vs NSX. But finally decided to give ACI a second chance :( Current datacenters are on vSphere 6.0 and were linked to ACI with no issues. We decided to go with latest 6.7 vSphere and Built them. ESXi hosts were added on to vCenter and a management DVS was created manually (we always had management DVS out side ACI!) and ESXi VMK0 was moved there, basically all went as per plan and well. Then came the ACI integration part... We had 3 vCenters and they were all under same VMM domain. So we decided to add the new VC also there. ACI Role was created in vCenter for permissions, service account is configured there mapping it to the new role. Time came for the integration and it wasn't happy about something.. After adding the new VC, ACI could see ESXi inve...

Today I was trying to install PowerCli on my Windows 10 machine using below command Install-Module -Name VMware.PowerCLI -RequiredVersion 11.1.0.11289667 Ended up with an error "PackageManagement\Install-Package : The following commands are already available on this system:'Get-Cluster,New-Cluster,Remove-Cluster'. This module 'VMware.VimAutomation.Core' may override the existing commands. If you still want to install this module" Looked like some of the modules are conflicting. As per MS document here " If the module being installed has the same name or version, or contains commands in an existing module, warning messages are displayed. After you confirm that you want to install the module and override the warnings, use the -Force and -AllowClobber"  So decided to use  -AllowClobber and it worked! 

vCenter Appliance - WebClient down with "Error: Service name is invalid" Last week I had to shutdown my lab vCenter 6.7. As it's just a lab I just powered it off instead of shutting down. After a few days I powered it back on when I wanted it back, and it booted without issues. But then WebClient wouldn't come up. Just says page cannot be displayed. I logged in to the appliance via SSH and tried to list service status root@vcenter [ ~ ]#  service-control --status --all 2019-04-04T10:43:41.796Z  Error: Service name "applmgmt" is invalid. 2019-04-04T10:43:41.816Z  Error: Service name "content-library" is invalid. 2019-04-04T10:43:41.837Z  Error: Service name "vcha" is invalid. 2019-04-04T10:43:41.857Z  Error: Service name "pschealth" is invalid. 2019-04-04T10:43:41.878Z  Error: Service name "sps" is invalid. 2019-04-04T10:43:41.898Z  Error: Service name "sca" is invalid. 2019-04-04T10:43:41.936Z  Error: Servic...

It's a shame but I recently had to P2V a Windows 2000 server, part of our legacy services, in order to free up and decomm an old physical server. It was not a pleasure at all :( Planning 1) Download and keep VMware Converter 4.0.1 (VMware-converter-4.0.1-161434.exe) – To P2V Windows 2000 P2V Converter 4.0.1 doesn’t support any vCenter/ ESXi later than 4.x. So I ended up in installing ESXi 4.0 on a VM running on top of my vSphere 6.5 infra! So 2) ESXi 4.0 ISO I read articles of people using VMware WorkStation for this, but in my case I didn’t want the export job to run outside datacentre, due to security reasons. My Windows 2000 Server that I need to virtualize is 200 Gig. So if you look at the disk size of ESXi VM, I made sure that It’s bigger than that.      3) Check Patch Level of Windows 2000 server and make sure > It’s updated to SP4 Rollup 1 ( KB891861 ) If not, install from here and reboot the server before running P2V job 4) Download and keep VMware Converter 6...