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 VM randomly inaccessible using QNAP NFS
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 […]
Delegate permissions on My VMware site
Today I had to open a support case on behalf of a customer with VMware. When you call VMware to open the case they will request your customer number. Now when they say YOUR customer number they mean it. They are not asking for my customers customer number, but instead my own unique customer number. What […]
VMware vSphere CLI missing libxml2.dll
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 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 […]