Today I finally managed to get around to starting my Nutanix journey, by getting Nutanix Community Edition installed on our VMware lab. Nutanix has been a technology I've been closely following for the last 12 months. I've heard some great things from both customers and fellow techies about this technology, but never managed to take... Continue Reading →
The upgrade contains the following set of conflicting vibs cisco bootbank cisco vem
Whilst attempting to upgrade a series of VMware ESXi hosts i ran into a small issues with regards to the VIB version installed. Below is our scenario VMware vSphere ESXi 5.0 upgrading to ESXi 6.0 Cisco Nexus 1010v VDS The error i was receiving was: 'the upgrade contains the following set of conflicting vibs cisco... Continue Reading →
Upgrading VMware ESXi whilst using Nexus 1010v VDS
Recently i went through a process of upgrading a VMware environment that utilised the Nexus 1010v Virtual Distributed Switches. The automatic upgrade that can be performed from the 1010v failed due to an issue on the VMware ESXi hosts. This was troubleshooted and identified as a stuck services on the VEM. The following process was... Continue Reading →