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Short overview about my current homelab setup. Hardware StarTech OpenFram Rack 25 HE 1x Dell Poweredge R630 2x Intel Xeon CPU E5-2630L v3 @ 1.80Ghz total of 32 logical CPUs 192GB Memory 2x 10Gbit + 2x 1Gbit Network 1x iDrac Enterprise Storage 4x 480GB SSD 4x 5TB HDD 1x 480GB NVMe 1x 1TB NVMe 1x 32GB USB Stick …

I have written a powershell script to automate the deployment of the Skyline Health Diagnostics appliance. You can find the code on GitHub. https://github.com/mdhemmi/shd-deplyoment Feedback is much appreciated, please submit issues via Github.

You might have noticed that when you open a VMware SR most of the time you get questions about product versions, timestamps, logs, Skyline Org. Over the last 5 years I use the template below with my customer and it has reduced the amount of questions and therefore speed up the resolution of SRs. Disclaimer: This is not …

Skyline Health Diagnostics 3.0 has been released. You can upgrade your existing appliance from the settings tab. If you are on 2.5.1 you have to upgrade first to 2.5.2 and then to 3.0. Download: https://customerconnect.vmware.com/fr/downloads/get-download?downloadGroup=SKYLINE_HD_VSPHERE

I noticed that Skyline alerts in vROPs are automatically canceled and during the next adpater run recreated which can cause duplicated alert notifications. This can be adjusted by applying the following configuration. Login to each vROPs node by SSH 1cd /usr/lib/vmware-vcops/user/plugins/inbound/SkylineAdapter3/conf/ …

The VAMI has been removed from the current Skyline Collector 2.7. So a manual upgrade from VAMi is no longer possible but you can trigger a manual upgrade from commandline. 1ssh root@SKYLINE-COLLECTOR First step is to check for a new version 1vamicli update --check Output if a update is available 1root@skyline [ ~ ]# …

With ovftool 4.4.1 you can directly deploy ovf/ova files from an remote url. As decribed in William's blog post here: https://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2020/10/ovftool-4-4-1-upload-ovf-ova-from-url-using-upcoming-pull-mechanism.html Well that did not work for me so I have done some troubleshooting. So I downloaded the …

Yesterday I have upgraded my LAB VCSA from 7.0.0.10700 to 7.0.1.00100. First I had some difficulties using the build in online upgrade which is very likely caused by my bad internet connection. So I have downloaded the VCSA patch iso from: https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/patch …

First you have to login to SHD using the shd-admin user account. shd-admin / Password set during installation After successful login you will see the Collect Logs & Analyze page: vCenter example: ESXi example: Here you can provide the vCenter or ESXi details so that SHD can trigger a log bundle automatically. Next step …