Today a customer called reporting unable to install the EqualLogic MEM module for VMware using vSphere CLI. He recieved the following error: The program can’t start because libxml2.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem. A search on his computer revealed that the file was in fact installed together with vSphere […]
VMware ESXi 5 unable to vMotion with error 0xbad0060
Yesterday I was at a customer who complained his VMware ESXi 5.0 Update 1 environment was unable to vMotion between servers. He saw two different error messages: A general system error occurred: Failed to initialize migration at source. Error 0xbad0060. Necessary module isn’t loaded – and – A general system error occurred: The VMotion failed because […]
Veeam troubleshooting: Failed to retrieve updated or changed rows from table ReportSessionView
Today I encountered two error messages from Veeam after setting up a new VMware vCenter and changing the Veeam Backup & Replication jobs to the new vCenter/Cluster. The errors did not appear until the actual backup job was started though. First error “Failed to retrieve updated or changed rows from the table ReportSessionView. USN: 0 […]
VMware vCenter SQL express database full? How to #fixit!
Last week I had a customer running on a SQL express database with a 10 GB upper limit. The customer called us in because the vCenter service was crashing almost daily. Upon inspecting the event log I saw the following: Source MSSQL$SQLEXPRESS Event 1105 Could not allocate space for object ‘dbo.VPX_TEMPTABLE0’ in database ‘VIM_vCenter’ because […]
EqualLogic Firmware Upgrade error: Insufficient free space to extract the kernel file
Today I encountered a, to me, previously unseen error while attempting to upgrade the firmware of a customers EqualLogic PS4000 SAN. The error showed: Insufficient free space to extract the kernel file; required: 24 MB, available: 22 MB I connected using FTP to the dedicated management IP of the EqualLogic group […]
Veeam troubleshooting: Failed to login to “vcenter.domain.local” by SOAP, port 443, user “”, proxy srv: port:0 Cannot complete login due to an incorrect user name or password.
Today one of our regular customers called with a wierd error. After upgrading their VMware ESXi hosts and vCenter to 5.1 (unsupported) they could suddenly no longer backup VMs one of their two hosts using Veeam. The log would show: Failed to login to “vcenter.domain.local” by SOAP, port 443, user “”, proxy srv: port:0 Cannot […]
Tip: Allow end-users to install printer drivers despite UAC
Today a customer called and the issue being end users on their remote desktop servers are unable to install printer drivers from their print server, hence they call support! Simply allow this using 2 GPO’s: Set this to disabled: Computer Configuration\Policies\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Local Policies\Security Option\Devices: Prevent users from installing printer drivers. and set both drop-Down […]
Recover Exchange 2010 database when corrupted
Today I had a customer where his Exchange server was unfortunately not properly shutdown and after powering on the mailbox database was unable to mount. First I checked the state of the database using: eseutil /mh “d:\path\to\store.edb” Unfortunately the state was “Dirty Shutdown”. Next step was to check the state of the log files using: eseutil […]
Tip: Make user local administrator only on current desktop
Frequently customers in VDI environments request that users are local administrators on their non-persistant desktop. Some simply just add domain users to the local administrator Group, but this is a really bad idea because this will give users admin rights across desktops, giving them access to destroying other desktops. Instead we can simply add the built-in […]