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Appliance (OS) root password is expired or is going to expire soon. Please change the root password before installing an update.

Posted on Saturday 27/01/2018 by Victor — 4 Comments

I had this error message popping out in VCSA when I tried to perform an update via the VCSA gui (https://vcsa.fqdn:9458) and basically, the update process wouldn’t start. I also couldn’t change the root password as I was getting into…

Warning: The available space to /dev/disks/naa. appears to have shrunk. This may happen if the disk size has reduced. The space has been reduced by (x blocks).

Posted on Monday 08/05/2017 by Victor — 2 Comments

I had to hold a training and decided to recycle some (relatively) old hosts and have them installed with vSphere 6.5.0d and most important vSAN 6.6 as I had 4 hosts, each with 5 SSDs I thought I was lucky…

How to delete orphaned VMs on VMware vCenter 6.5

Posted on Tuesday 13/12/2016 by Victor — 11 Comments

Before VMware vCenter 6.5, deleting orphaned VMs was really easy. You just needed to connect with the VMware vSphere Client (the fat client) to the vCenter server, create a new folder, move the broken stuff in it, and delete the…