Fan health sensors report false alarms on HPE Gen10 Servers with ESXi 6.7

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I’ve got several mails and comments about this topic. It looks like that the latest ESXi 6.7 updates are causing some trouble on HPE ProLiant Gen10 servers.

I’ve blogged about recurring host hardware sensor state alarm messages some weeks ago. A customer noticed them after an update. Last week, I got the first comments under this blog post abot fan failure messages after applying the latest ESXi 6.7 updates. Then more and more customers asked me about this, because they got these messages too in their environment after applying the latest updates.

Last Saturday I tweeted my blog post to give a hint to my followers who may be experiencing the same problem.… Read more

Missing Microsoft Teams calendar tab with on-premise Exchange

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Microsoft Teams got a big push due to the current COVID19 crisis and many of my customers deployed it in the past weeks. At ML Network, we are using Microsoft Teams for more than a year, and we don’t want to miss it anymore.

Source: Microsoft

We are running Exchange 2016 on-premises, currently CU16. We were missing the calendar tab in Teams since we started with Microsoft Teams. when you do some research about this issue, you will find many threads and blog posts, but these are the two key facts:

  • it is supported with on-premises hybrid Exchange deployments
  • it works flawless with Exchange Online

Our Exchange is configured as full-hybrid mode deployment.… Read more

Connecting to Exchange Online with PowerShell

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The task was simple: Change the alias and the primary SMTP address of a Microsoft Teams team. This can be done by changing the alias and the SMTP address of the underlaying Office 365 group. But how? All you need is a PowerShell connection to Exchange Online.

All you need is a PowerShell on your local computer and Office 365 credentials with the necessary privileges.

First we need to provide the necessary credentials.

 $cred = Get-Credential

A windows will come up and you must enter your Office365 credentials.

The next step is to create a PowerShell remote session with Exchange Online.

$Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange
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Space reclamation of VMFS 5 Datastores using esxcli

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It was a bit quiet here in January caused by a new “private project” which has attracted some resources, and will pull more resources in the future.

But this will not stop me from documenting useful stuff. This one is nothing new, but commonly asked by some customers: How do I get my storage capacity back after deleting VMs?!

The outlined steps are all done using esxcli. You need to execute them on a single ESXi host, not on each host in the cluster.

Connect to one of your ESXi hosts using SSH. You can use this small PowerCLI command to enable SSH on a specific host.

Get-VMHost esx1.lab.local | Get-VMHostService | Where Key -EQ "TSM-SSH" | Start-VMHostService

The first step is to identify the datastore(s) from which you want to reclaim storage.… Read more

VCAP6.5-DCV Design – Objective 2.4 Build manageability requirements into a vSphere 6.x logical design

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This seems to be my last blog post for 2019 and it covers covers objective 2.4 (Build manageability requirements into a vSphere 6.x logical design) of the VCAP6.5-DCV Design exam. It is based on the VMware Certified Advanced Professional 6.5 in Data Center Virtualization Design (3V0-624) Exam Preparation Guide (last update August 2017).

The necessary skills and abilities are documented in the exam prep guide for the older VCAP6-DCV Design exam (3V0-622). I think they also apply to the current version of the exam:

  • Evaluate which management services can be used with a given vSphere Solution
  • Differentiate infrastructure qualities related to management
  • Differentiate available command line-based management tools (PowerCLI, vMA etc.)
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VCAP6.5-DCV Design – Objective 2.3 Build availability requirements into a vSphere 6.x logical design

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This blog post covers objective 2.3 (Build availability requirements into a vSphere 6.x logical design) of the VCAP6.5-DCV Design exam. It is based on the VMware Certified Advanced Professional 6.5 in Data Center Virtualization Design (3V0-624) Exam Preparation Guide (last update August 2017).

The necessary skills and abilities are documented in the exam prep guide for the older VCAP6-DCV Design exam (3V0-622). I think they also apply to the current version of the exam:

  • Evaluate which logical availability services can be used with a given vSphere solution
  • Differentiate infrastructure qualities related to availability
  • Describe the concept of redundancy and the risks associated with single points of failure
  • Explain class of nines methodology
  • Determine availability component of service level agreements (SLAs) and service level management processes
  • Determine potential availability solutions for a logical design based on customer requirements
  • Create an availability plan, including maintenance processes
  • Balance availability requirements with other infrastructure qualities
  • Analyze a vSphere design and determine possible single points of failure

Let’s start with…

Evaluate which logical availability services can be used with a given vSphere solution

VMware vSphere offers a broad band of features that allows you to create highly available solutions.… Read more

Why we need a vSAN licensing for SMB customers

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Not every customer is running a full-blown vSphere Enterprise Plus licensing. To be honest, when I look at the number of sold licenses, most of my customers are running vSphere Essentials Plus. Not Essentials, nor Standard or Enterprise (Plus), but two or three hosts with Essentials Plus. And that’s perfectly fine!

Two or three hosts with 10 GbE and pretty often 12G SAS. Some of them with Fibre-Channel, nearly no one with iSCSI. My colleagues and I developed a pretty rock solid setup over the last years, which we sell like some kind of building block: HPE ProLiant, HPE MSA, Aruba Switches, vSphere Essentials Plus.… Read more

VMware ESXi 6.7: Recurring host hardware sensor state alarm

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This posting is ~12 months years old. You should keep this in mind. IT is a short living business. This information might be outdated.

If you found this blog post because you are searchting for a solution for a FAN FAILURE on your ProLiant Gen10 HW after applying the latest ESXi 6.7 patches, then use this shortcut for the workaround: Fan health sensors report false alarms on HPE Gen10 Servers with ESXi 6.7

I had a really annoying problem at one of my customers. After deploying new VMware ESXi hosts (HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10) along with an upgrade of the vCenter Server Appliance to 6.7 U2, the customer reported recurring host hardware sensor state alarm messages in the vCenter for all hosts.… Read more

VCAP6.5-DCV Design – Objective 2.2 Map service dependencies

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This posting is ~1 year years old. You should keep this in mind. IT is a short living business. This information might be outdated.

This blog post covers objective 2.2 (Map service dependencies) of the VCAP6.5-DCV Design exam. It is based on the VMware Certified Advanced Professional 6.5 in Data Center Virtualization Design (3V0-624) Exam Preparation Guide (last update August 2017).

The necessary skills and abilities are documented in the exam prep guide for the older VCAP6-DCV Design exam (3V0-622). I think they also apply to the current version of the exam:

  • Evaluate dependencies for infrastructure and application services that will be included in a vSphere design
  • Create Entity Relationship Diagrams that map service relationships and dependencies
  • Analyze interfaces to be used with new and existing business processes
  • Determine service dependencies for logical components
  • Include service dependencies in a vSphere 6.x
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Load balancing ADFS and ADFS Proxy using Citrix ADC

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This posting is ~1 year years old. You should keep this in mind. IT is a short living business. This information might be outdated.

Last week I had to setup a small Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) farm that will be used to allow Single Sign-On (SSO) with Office 365.

Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) is a solution developed by Microsoft to provide users an authenticated access to applications, that are not capable of using Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA).

Required by the customer was a two node ADFS farm located on the internal network, and a two node ADFS Proxy farm located at the DMZ.… Read more