VMware: Snapshot operation exceeded the time limit for holding off I/O in the...
After installing VMware Data Recovery I scheduled a fresh job to make a backup of my VM’s in the datacenter. The first 8 VM’s backuped successful, but the VM’s with a iSCSI target (Exchange, SQL)...
View ArticleVMware: Hot Add list
Nice list to share: Source: Troy Clavell sanderdaemsSander Daems is founder and author of this blog and working as a Infrastructure Consultant by IT-Value. Sander has over 9 years experience in IT,...
View ArticleVMware vSphere 4.1 released today!
Today VMware released the newest version of vSphere, version 4.1 Whats new: Scripted Install for ESXi. Scripted installation of ESXi to local and remote disks allows rapid deployment of ESXi to many...
View ArticleVMware: HP Management Agent “An active Virtual Machine [ IP] has been...
Today I was busy to to install some HP Managent Agents 8.60 on a DL380 G6, after entering the host in maintenance mode, extracting the HP software in the /tmp/ folder I was ready to install the agent....
View ArticleVMware: Configuring VMware vCenter Server to send an alarm when virtual...
This video details how to configure alarms in your VMware vSphere environment, through vCenter Server. It’s easy but not a default alarm.....
View ArticleVMware: SCSI reservation conflicts
Last week I had some trouble by a customer, 4 of my 8 datastores aren’t visible/accessible on the 6 ESX 3.5u2 hosts connected to a (FC) HP MSA1500. Some datastores become unavailable and some were not...
View ArticleVMware: Update: RVTool 3.0 .. the best free VMware overview application!
RVTools is a windows .NET 2.0 application which uses the VI SDK to display information about your virtual machines and ESX hosts. Interacting with VirtualCenter 2.5, ESX 3.5, ESX3i, ESX4i and vSphere 4...
View ArticleVMware: VMware Data Recovery: The Unmount operation failed because the...
After some failed backups and warnings in the even log I decided to troubleshoot the backup job. I tried to remount my “storage destination” but received this warning: The Unmount operation failed...
View ArticleVMware: Update VMware Tools without a reboot by PowerCLI
Upgrade VMware Tools, all virtual machines in cluster: Get-Cluster "Productie" | Get-VM | Update-Tools –NoReboot Upgrade VMware Tools, located in folder: Get-Cluster "Productie" | Get-Folder "Beheer...
View ArticleVMware: VCVA: Invalid Hostname. FQDN is required for joining a domain.
Last week I upgraded my lab to vSphere 5.5, during the install I entered the hostname to configure domain authentication but I received this error: Error: Invalid hostname. FQDN is required for joining...
View ArticleVMware: Install VMware vCenter Server 6.0.0
sanderdaemsSander Daems is founder and author of this blog and working as a Infrastructure Consultant by IT-Value. Sander has over 9 years experience in IT, primary focus: virtualization, storage and...
View ArticleVMware: Upgrade vCenter Server 5.5 to 6.0
Last week I upgraded VMware vCenter 5.5 server (based Windows 2012R2) at the company environment I work for, the upgrade was very simple. Pre-install: Please check article “Minimum requirements for the...
View ArticleVMware: Quick stats on [SERVERNAME] is not up-to-date
Few weeks ago I upgraded for a customer vCenter Server 5.5. to 6.0, today I received a yellow warning in the Summary tab: Quick stats on [SERVERNAME] is not up-to-date Solution This is a known issue...
View ArticleVMware: Error when uploading files to vCenter Server Appliance using WinSCP
Last week I tried to download some logfiles with WinSCP from the customer vCenter 6.0 appliance but I couldn’t, I received this error message: Host is not communicating for more than 15 seconds. If...
View ArticleVMware: Install VMware vCenter Support Assistant 6.0.0 appliance
Install and configure VMware vCenter Support 1. Download the VMware vCenter Support Assistant 2: Deploy the OVF > Accept license agreement > login to the appliance’s IP via web browser...
View ArticleVMware: Increasing the disk space for the VMware vCenter Server Appliance in...
Some months ago I installed 15 new vSphere 6.0 hosts with local flash disks. After installation I configured the VMware Syslog Service at the vCenter appliance. Few weeks later the vSphere web-client...
View ArticleVMware: How to reset the lost or forgotten root password in vCenter Server...
To reset the lost forgotten root password in vCenter Server Appliance 6.5: Take a snapshot or backup of the vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 before proceeding. (Do not skip this step.) Reboot the vCenter...
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