Fixing The account does not have permission to impersonate the requested user permissions error Quite a few times recently students on Veeam Certified Engineer (VMCE) course has asked me how they can fix the error The account does not have permission to impersonate the requested user which might occur when trying to restore an e-mail […]
Unable to remotely connect to new Microsoft SQL server
I rarely do configuration of Microsoft SQL server, as usually someone else will already have installed and configured it before I arrive. Yesterday however, I arrived at a customer with a new Microsoft Small Business Server SQL server. The installation wizard has been completed but nothing else. I tried to connect using SQL Management Studio […]
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 […]
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 […]