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vSphere Orphaned First Class Disk (FCD) Cleanup Script Orphaned First Class Disks (FCDs) in VMware vSphere environments are a surprisingly common and frustrating issue. These are virtual disks that exist on datastores but are no longer associated with any…
Read guide →As a vSphere administrator, you've built your career on understanding infrastructure at a granular level, datastores, DRS clusters, vSwitches, and HA configurations. You’re used to managing VMs at scale. Now, you’re hearing about KubeVirt, and while it…
Read guide →The Issue Someone has deleted the Cloud-Provider-vSphere project in the gcr.io registry for container images. The default pull policy for the vSphere CSI when using VMware's manifests is set to always, meaning that if you reboot your cluster, it will not come…
Read guide →The Issue I keep saying, there are no new ideas in technology, just re-hashes of old ones. That is also true for VMware and their data loss issues. The vSphere-based change block tracking (CBT) bug is back! I think I wrote 5 articles on this back in 2014/2015…
Read guide →The VMware Fusion KB to remove the software makes reference to a number of areas you need to manually cleanup, so below a little script which closes the application, uninstalls the app and removes the files. Note: Uses sudo to elevate permissions for running…
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