Recently I had a customer call me because he was recieving error The operation is not allowed in the current connection state of the host when trying to vMotion. Here is a quick screenshot of the error: The operation is not allowed in the current connection state of the host Usually when customers see […]
VMware Update Manager: Vendors online depots available
A student last week asked me if it was possible to download patches automatically from hardware vendors instead of manually downloading the patches. This is indeed possible and below I will show you the steps for configuring it. Currently the vendors I am aware of providing online depots are: Brocade: http://www.brocade.com/downloads/documents/vibsdepot/CurrentRelease/BCD-depot-index.xml Dell: http://vmwaredepot.dell.com/index.xml HP: http://vibsdepot.hp.com/index.xml Step […]
Configure Custom Alarm for Virtual Machine disks consolidation is needed
Last week I delievered a VMware vSphere Fast Track course and the question came up if it was possible to configure an alarm for Virtual Machine disks consolidation is needed. The issue is if you look at the overview of VMs such as hosts and clusters view you will not be able to see if any […]
50% discount on VMware vSphere What’s New [4.x to 5.5] online beta training
VMware has just announced that the official What’s New course on 4.x to 5.5 will be available as a BETA course very soon. Take the beta course and recieve a 50% discount. The course is on October 21st and 22nd at 9 AM CST. See more details and register here. You can sign […]
Warning! Do NOT upgrade to vCloud Director 5.5 if using SQL server 2005 SP4
VMware has issued an alert that vCloud Director users should NOT upgrade to 5.5, if they are using Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 4 as their database. If you attempt to upgrade the process may fail and you will see an error similar to: Exception in thread “main” java.lang.IllegalStateException: java.sql.SQLException: Cannot assign a default […]
VMware Certified Associate (VCA) exams now available
50% exam discount code/voucher: VMRT9B503121 Check out my VMware VCA exam experience post. Recently VMware announced the a new certification track: VMware Certified Associate (VCA). This new track has 3 paths: (and as of 2013-10-23 one not available yet) VMware Certified Associate – Datacenter Virtualization (VCA-DCV) – FREE video training – Exam blueprint – Register […]
VMware Instructor Certification Workshop experience
My road to VCI (VMware Certified Instructor) can be broken down to these points: Pass VCP5-DCV exam with a score of 350 or more I already did that when taking the VCP5 in 2012 Attend either (or both) VMware courses Install, Configure, Manage or Fast Track a total of 2 times within 60 days I took […]
Nordic VMUG conference in Bella Center Copenhagen
A heads up from Danish VMUG leader Liselotte Foverskov @LFoverskov regarding the upcoming VMUG conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. The conference will be held December 3rd and already now it is clear Liselotte has managed to pull in TOP names for us! December 3rd Danish VMUG is hosting a Nordic VMUG conference in Bella Center. This event […]
#VMworld roadtrip with #VMUGDKSF
Saturday I went on a roadtrip with the great people of VMUG DK. We drove down to Gilroy Premium Outlets for shopping: We then drove to Burger. in Santa Cruz for lunch. Here is a great group photo: It was a fantastic day and I am looking forward to the danish invasion at VMworld […]
Veeam Backup & Replication error Data at the root level is invalid. Line 1, position 1.
Today a customer called me with an issue getting Veeam backup of one VM that had previously worked without issues. His environment was VMware vCenter 5.1 U1 and Veeam Backup & Replication 6.5 patch 3. The error recieved was: Error: Data at the root level is invalid. Line 1, position 1. This is […]