I recently worked on a project to upgrade a SimpliVity environment from version 5.2 to 5.3.1. I downloaded all the necessary files from the HPE Support Portal and followed the … «Read More»
Category: HCI
Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is a software-defined IT infrastructure that virtualizes all of the elements of conventional “hardware-defined” systems. HCI includes, at a minimum, virtualized computing (a hypervisor), software-defined storage, and virtualized networking (software-defined networking).
SimpliVity 5.3.1 Deployment Issue: Stuck at Step 17 of 43
Yesterday, one of our colleagues encountered a recurring issue during the deployment of an HPE SimpliVity environment. The deployment consistently failed at Step 17 of 43 in the Deployment Manager, … «Read More»
Backups are not visible in registered external store on SimpliVity
If you’ve accidentally removed StoreOnce from SimpliVity or need to register it with another SimpliVity cluster, this guide will walk you through how to recover your VMs and view backups. … «Read More»
Error getting partition list on SimpliVity
If you have a SimpliVity infrastructure you might have seen this error while doing FLR (file level restore). This means your backups are affected and you cannot fix. You heard … «Read More»
HPE SimpliVity plugin disappeared on vCenter
Recently one of our customers default vCenter certificate is expired after 2 years and we lost the UI access. I got an error about SimpliVity plugin after renewed the certificate. … «Read More»
Useful HPE SimpliVity commands
I will share a bunch of useful HPE SimpliVity commands in this article. Before execution the commands you should get the root permission using the following command then enter the … «Read More»
Maximum virtual disk size dropped to 2TB on HPE SimpliVity
I have faced this problem a few times on HPE SimpliVity Infra and wanted to share the solution on my blog. Normally, due to configuration maximums of VMware 7, VMware … «Read More»
Changing ESXI and vCenter password for HPE SimpliVity
As you know sometimes we need to change the root passwords for security reasons. In this article, I would like to share what kind of problem I faced last week … «Read More»