This week I had a customer ask for help in resolving an issue with backing up a server that was previously P2V’d. Previously the customer had been using Symantec BackupExec but they had recently changed it over to Veeam Backup & Replication v8. So lets jump right into the situation: Failed to prepare guest […]
vMotion error The operation is not allowed in the current connection state of the host
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
EqualLogic error: Volume has fewer than expected replicas
Today a customer called me up. He had two EqualLogic units setup with replication from one to the other. After setting this up and verifying replication worked as expected he started to recieve e-mails like this: [ID: 4.18] Schedule <name of schedule> for volume <name of volume> has fewer than expected replicas. Expected 1, but […]
VMware ESXi Storage vMotion fails with error The method is disabled by ‘vm-3556’
This week a customer called me. He was unable to Storage vMotion a VM from one datastore to another in his VMware ESXi 5.1 environment. The error shown was: The method is disabled by ‘vm-3556’ My first suggestion was to perform a regular vMotion to a different host and then retry. Unfortunately this did not […]
VMware vSphere Web Client error The Requested resource () is not available
Today I was at a customer deploying a new setup using VMware vSphere ESXi 5.1 Update 1. Everything new! We decided to install all of the vCenter services such as Single Sign On, Inventory Service and Web client onto a new Windows Server 2012 VM. Everything went fine, until I attempted to connect to the […]
VMware ESXi 5.1 unable to mount datastore: Lock was not free
Today I had a customer running VMware ESXi 5.1 on three hosts connected to a Dell EqualLogic SAN. The issue at hand was out of 10 datastores on the SAN one datastore could suddenly no longer be mounted. It showed up as (inactive)(unmounted): Obviously the logical solution would be to just try and mount the […]
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 […]