A practical ESXi VM performance checklist covering CPU ready, memory ballooning, storage latency, snapshots, network drops, VMware Tools, and host contention.
A practical VMware Tools upgrade checklist for production VMs, covering reboot risk, guest OS support, snapshots, application windows, and guest operations.
A practical VCSA checklist for /storage/log full, covering log growth, service impact, support bundles, backups, and what not to delete blindly.
A practical checklist for vCenter no healthy upstream and 503 errors, focusing on certificate expiration, STS, VECS, VAMI backup, and service status.
A practical ESXi checklist for restarting hostd and vpxa when vCenter shows host not responding, disconnected, or stuck management tasks.
A field checklist for VMware snapshot consolidation needed, covering datastore free space, backup jobs, VM stun risk, delta files, and task timing.
A practical VMware snapshot checklist explaining memory snapshots, quiesced snapshots, crash-consistent snapshots, and common mistakes before backups or risky changes.
A field checklist for ESXi host not responding in vCenter, including management network, hostd, vpxa, storage, VM state, and when a reboot is actually needed.
A practical checklist for finding why a VMware virtual machine was powered off, reset, rebooted, or shut down from vCenter, ESXi logs, and guest OS logs.
A practical checklist for expired vCenter certificates, including VECS checks, STS notes, backups, snapshots, and when to use VMware vCert.
