• Homelab - vWorld Shorts

    vWorld Short: Cannot Create a VMFS Datastore on Nested ESXi Running on vSAN

    September 25, 2026 - By 

    When working with nested ESXi environments, sometimes a problem that looks like a simple storage issue is actually caused by the storage layer underneath the nested hypervisor. In my lab, I wanted to create a local VMFS datastore on an additional virtual disk attached to a nested ESXi host. The disk was visible to ESXi, and I was able to create a GPT partition, but creating the VMFS datastore failed. In this short note, I will show how I troubleshot the issue and what was required to make VMFS work when the nested ESXi virtual disk was stored on vSAN.…

  • Kubernetes & GitOps - VCF - vWorld Shorts

    vWorld Short: Retrieve the vSphere Supervisor Control Plane SSH Password

    June 12, 2026 - By 

    Sometimes you may need to access the vSphere Supervisor Control Plane VM directly for troubleshooting. In this short note, we will retrieve the Supervisor Control Plane SSH password from the vCenter Server Appliance. When to use it Use this only when you need to troubleshoot the vSphere Supervisor Control Plane, and you have administrative access to the vCenter Server Appliance that manages the Supervisor Cluster. This can be useful when you need to validate services, logs, or node-level state directly on the Supervisor Control Plane VM. Step 1 — SSH to the vCenter Server Appliance SSH to the vCenter Server…