Quick Tip – How to retrieve deleted VM history?

Quick Tip – How to retrieve deleted VM history?

Quick Tip – How to retrieve deleted VM history?

Here is another question that can be solved by leveraging vCenter Server Events, which provides a lot of useful information, especially for historical operations and auditing purposes. Simliar to identifying where a VM was cloned from use case, we can also use vCenter events to retrieve the historical events for all VM deletions for a […]


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Automate VMware Template Patching for Windows

Automate VMware Template Patching for Windows – Virtualization Howto

Automate VMware Template Patching for Windows

The more operational tasks that can be automated, the more time vSphere administrators can accomplish other objectives—one of the tasks that can take time out of a busy schedule VMware template patching. VMware vSphere templates are a great way to save time to deploy new machines. However, these nee


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What if the disk controller driver included in…

What if the disk controller driver included in my vendor’s ESXi image is not on the vSAN HCL?

What if the disk controller driver included in…

Sometimes unfortunately there are situations where a vendor’s ESXi image includes a disk controller driver that is not on the vSAN HCL/VCG (VMware Compatibility Guide). Typically it is a new version of the driver which is supported for vSphere, but not yet for vSAN. In that situation, what should you do? So far there are […]


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