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Part 38: HOW TO: Remediate a vSphere Cluster VMware ESXi 7.0U3d to ESXi 7.0U3n including adding the DELL OEM Addon for ESXi 7.0.3 – A12 using VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) from a single image

Saturday, October 12th, 2024

In this video presentation which is part of the Hancock’s VMware Half Hour HOW TO Video Series I will show you HOW TO: Remediate a vSphere Cluster VMware ESXi 7.0U3d to ESXi 7.0U3n including adding the DELL OEM Addon for ESXi 7.0.3 – A12 using VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) from a single image

This is an updated video of Part 19: HOW TO: Update VMware ESXi 7.0U1 to ESXi 7.0U2a using VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM).

This video took over 7 hours to record to Remediate the vSphere Cluster, don’t worry in post we were able to reduce to approximately 35 minutes, the reasons were issues which we discuss as we troubleshoot the cluster, as we remediate the cluster.

Issues encountered, which we discuss and remedy throughout the video

  • Failed to vMotion – caused by incorrect network speed.
  • Failed to vMotion – caused by different generation CPU.
  • Failed to remediate a host  – caused by incompatible VIBs.
  • Failed to remediate a host  – caused by unknown error.
  • Server failed to boot – caused by failing ECC memory modules.

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Part 19: HOW TO: Update VMware ESXi 7.0U1 to ESXi 7.0U2a using vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM).

Thursday, September 19th, 2024

This video will show you how to update ESXi 7U1 to ESXi 7.0U2a using VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) to get your system up to the latest release. In this tutorial, the version of ESXi 7.0 installed is ESXi 7.0U1, but this video can be followed to upgrade any version of ESXi 7.0. If you do not have vCenter Server 7.0,  and your ESXi host has access to the internet, there is a method shown in this video – HOW TO: Update VMware ESXi 7.0U2 to ESXi 7.0U2a direct from VMware.

VMware has removed many older legacy processors (CPUs) from ESXi 7.0U2, and also storage and network controllers. Please check the VMware Hardware Compatibility Lists (HCL) here.

It is not recommended to install ESXi 7.0 on USB or SD cards because of higher write I/O, and the SD cards are currently suffering because they are not higher endurance. Problems have been found in the wild.

It is technically still supported; eventually, this may filter down through the server vendors…

Some additional information regarding the use of USB and SD cards with VMware vSphere Hypervisor 7.0 (ESXi 7.0) and installations.

Installing ESXi on a supported USB flash drive or SD flash card (2004784)

vSphere 7 – ESXi System Storage Changes

VMware vSphere 7.x on Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers Getting Started Guide

Virtual SAN Considerations When Booting from a Flash Device

VMFS-L Locker partition corruption on SD cards in ESXi 7.0 (83376)

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