Today I had a customer who seemingly at random times lost connections to their QNAP NFS datastore. This only happend at night however. This is what they saw in the vSphere client: They could browse the datastore without issues and the VM worked fine if they removed it from inventory and re-added it again. Since […]
Dell ESXi PSOD LINT1 motherboard interrupt
Last week a customer encountered purple screen of death on their ESXi 5 installation on Dell hardware. Here is a screenshot of the error: After some research I ended up on Brian Wuchner‘s blog who suggested to diable the following two settings in the server BIOS: After disabling these two settings and rebooting the server the PSOD […]
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 […]