You may at some point end up with virtual machines marked with “Invalid” status in the vSphere Web client or vCenter. You will also notice that the contextual menu does not show up the usual options (mostly everything is greyed out) and more importantly, the “Unregister” or “Delete” options are unfortunately unavailable. Chill out, there… Read More »
You may have experienced the following behavior while trying to upgrade your vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) to 6.7.x – after submitting the IP and credentials information of the current vCenter and host, the wizard end up with error without any details. However, after downloading the log (there is a link within the red error bubble… Read More »
Almost 10 years ago, VMware released “VMware Installation Bundle”, or commonly known as VIB, to make it easier for 3rd party and administrators to install software components to their flagship virtualization platform, vSphere ESXi. The process is quite straight forward and you usually can’t go wrong if you are installing the right VIB for the… Read More »
You most likely have noticed that beside a service listed in the WebUI, there is nowhere to configure any options, and that attempting to start the service, it just won’t start. The service has to be configured with the community string in order to be started. The only way of configuring the service, is using… Read More »
Experiencing the following error when you attempt to take a snapshot on a specific VM? The operation is not allowed in the current state. The current article apply to a situation where this message is showed up, but the VM is powered-off. If your situation is otherwise, it may also apply. If there is no… Read More »
Encountering the following error with Hyper-V? The requested operation could not be completed due to a file system limitation. This is most likely due to the fact you are trying to perform an operation on an unsupported filesystem. Hyper-V only support NTFS, make sure your drive is formatted accordingly.
In some rare occasion, you may end up with an orphaned VM in your vCenter inventory where no “remove” option is available from the option menu. Beside doing the removal using the CLI, there is still a way that worked most of the time for me. 1. Browse to “VMs and Templates inventory” inside the… Read More »
Having the following error when trying to add a new hypervisor to an existing cluster in VMware vCenter? A general system error occurred: Time out waiting on vpxa to start This is most likely happening with the ESXi version is greater than the ones supported by your currently running vCenter. Have a look at the… Read More »
Experiencing the following error while importing Guest VM template from single OVA file? Importing an OVA file with several disks fails with the error: Unable to access file: x:\vdisk.vmdk. End of OVA file reached while looking for: vdisk.vmdk I have encountered the following error trying to export a template I made, selecting a single OVA… Read More »
Well this is embarrassing, my 11 years old workstation crashed while I had several VMware Workstation guests running (thanks for all those years of flawless runtime!). All my VMs had auto-snapshots enabled, meaning that VMware Workstation was automatically taking snapshots of my development VMs every day. Guests VMs with snapshot does not react so well… Read More »