I have encountered the following issue within a customer environment, where vMotion of VMs was totally not working; stuck at 22% and took a very long time to get there and fail once stalled. So I looked for the usual curkprit such as : Make sure the vMotion VMK interfaces existed ; Make sure the… Read More »
The following issue will likely occur when importing a Virtual Disk vmdk into an existing machine, returning the following error when attempting to start the VM : Unsupported or invalid disk type 2 for ‘scsi0:0’. Ensure that the disk has been imported In my case, this happened importing Arista vEOS lab image and usually the… Read More »
Recently with VMware Fusion 13.6.3 on macOS Sequoia 15.x, the application keep asking if the VM was “Moved” or “Copied” when the VM in question has been cloned, every time a start operation is executed, regardless if the question was asked and answered previously. It seem to be a known issue and the only way… Read More »
If you recently changed your vCenter name (FQDN or IP) and use Veeam for backup, you need to tell Veeam about it, otherwise your backups will fail after this change. Fortunately, a built-in Veeam PowerShell command is available to do so. (The example below assume you’d like to change your vCenter name from 192.168.10.200 to… Read More »
I recently encountered the following behavior on VMware ESXi, where the following error was showing up : Host storage status But everything was showing all good on the iDRAC side and no apparent errors checking the datastore view in vCenter. Then, looking at the Hardware Health on the host : Monitor > Hardware Health >… Read More »
Encountering the following error while importing OVF template in vCenter? Transfer failed: The OVF descriptor is not available This is usually caused by file corruption. Either the source template is corrupted, or the corruption occurred in transit between the source and vCenter. Try first reimporting again, if failing, check md5sum signature if available, re-export the… Read More »
The VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) propose several disk sizing at the time of deployment. Eventually, disk shortage may occur, especially for the /var/log disk. This example assume you want to increase the default 10 Gb /var/log volume located on the virtual Hard Disk 5. 1. From the vCenter oe ESXi WebUI, edit the VCSA… Read More »
Morpheus Cloud Management Platform 5.1.1 error out as followed when installing the Debian package : * file[/etc/sudoers.d/80-morpheus-app] action create * Parent directory /etc/sudoers.d does not exist. ================================================================================ Error executing action `create` on resource ‘file[/etc/sudoers.d/80-morpheus-app]’ ================================================================================ Chef::Exceptions::EnclosingDirectoryDoesNotExist ———————————————— Parent directory /etc/sudoers.d does not exist. As obviously stated in the message, the folder “/etc/sudoers.d” does not exist,… Read More »
VMware vSphere products are available for free evaluation and come with a 60 days trial period, which should be enough for most but you may be caught at some point in a situation where you need to have a bit more time to try things out. Please note that this method isn’t approved or supported… Read More »
Attempting to establish SFTP connection to VCSA appliance end up with error: Error: Received unexpected end-of-file from SFTP server Error: Could not connect to server This is a common issue caused by incorrect shell for root user. To fix this issue, simply change the shell for the root user with the following command: chsh -s… Read More »