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vSphere VMs won’t live migrate to new host because of AES-NI

2023-01-022015-09-14 by Eric Schewe

I was building out our vSphere 5.5u2 Cluster today by repurposing one of our hold Hyper-V Nodes. The system in question is a Dell R820 with the latest BIOS (2.3.2) with quad Xeon E5-4607’s. After building up the node, joining it to the cluster and doing some sanity checks I was ready to re-distribute our … Read more

How to remove old NICs in CentOS 5 or 6

2023-01-022012-05-03 by Eric Schewe

I did a V2V conversion of a CentOS 6 machine from Hyper-V to vSphere. After the migration I was left with a legacy NIC that would throw up a warning when ever I tried to vMotion the CentOS 6 VM. It didn’t prevent me from moving the machine around our cluster but it was an … Read more