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 […]
EqualLogic reclaim space from VMware ESXi datastore
Today I visited a customer to perform a health check. Their system consisted of VMware ESXi hosts running on EqualLogic SAN storage. The volumes on the EqualLogic were thin provisioned and one of them were running ALMOST full plus a good way beyond the warning limit. As you can see the usage is exceeding the […]
Last chance to vote for VMworld 2013 sessions – Vote now!
If you are going to VMworld 2013 either in USA or Europe you should vote on your favorite sessions to ensure you can actually attend them 🙂 First step is to create an account. Last step is to sign in and you are good to go! Remember to check the FAQ is you are in […]
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 vCenter Server error 26002. Setup failed to register VMware vCenter Server to VMware vCenter Inventory Service
Last week I had trouble upgrading a customers VMware vCenter server from 5.0.0 build 623860 to 5.1b. To be sure I had, of course, taken a snapshot of the VM before starting the upgrade, but I thought I would still see if I could fix it since some of my readers might have a physical vCenter […]
Unable to login to VMware vCenter with domain accounts: A general system error occurred: Authorize Exception
Today a customer called me because they were unable to login to their VMware vCenter using domain accounts. They saw the following error message: A general system error occurred: Authorize Exception I asked if they had made any changes and they had created two new Windows Server 2012 domain controllers and given them the IP […]
VMware ESXi Single VM is not vSphere HA protected
Today a customer contacted me with a system consisting of 3 hosts running a VMware ESXi 5.0 cluster. They were experiencing one, and only one VM, was complaining about configuration issues: This virtual machine failed to become vSphere HA protected and HA may not attempt to restart it after a failure. The customer had already […]
Upgrade of VMware ESXi 5.0 Dell Custom to ESXi 5.1 Dell custom fails
Today I was performing an upgrade of VMware ESXi 5.0 running Dell custom image to 5.1 Dell custom image using VMware Update Manager. The upgrade seemed to run as usual, but after some time I wondered why the host did not come back up after the automatic reboot. I went to the console and saw […]
VMware ESXi Consolidate virtual machine disk files fails due to read-only lock
Last week I had a customer with a VM that required virtual disk consolidation, however when he attempted to perform this from the vSphere client it would run for hours and unfortunately fail: The virtual disk is either corrupted or not a supported format. I waited till we could get a service window on the […]