Month: November 2021
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Reset the vCenter Server Appliance root password
This post will be handy for those who can’t rely on their memory. AKA Me! Resetting appliance root password is as simple. Note that you need to make a snapshot or backup of your VM. Important, do not ignore this step! as i do sometimes. If something goes wrong, you’ll always have a copy of…
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How to configure Jumbo frames in windows. 9000MTU
Configure Jumbo Frames for NIC cards in the Windows-based OS servers Change the Maximum Transmission Unit (mtu) setting to 9,000, or the highest value that is supported by the switch Run the following from CMD: You many also have to configure the NIC for Jumbo frames Test with a ping using -f -l 8972
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Change the default Multipathing selection ESXi, From Most Recently used to Round Robin
How to change the default path selection policy from the default of Most Recently used to Round Robin: SSH to each host in the cluster and run the following command: From this command get the Vendor and Model of the storage highlighted below: The run a command like my example below, replacing the vendor -V…
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VxRail Manager Password Validity failed, or error resetting Mystic/root password from SDDC manager
Had the following two errors in my VCF on VxRail environment VxRail Manager password Validity, exception occurred while performing password validation task for VxRail manager. Password validation execution has failed. Didn’t realize at first but also changing the Root or Mystic password from SDDC manager didn’t work, that failed with the following: Remediation Message: Error…