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 »
Encountering the following error message trying to increase space on a vDisk for a guest machine on VMware ESXi? Failed to reconfigure virtual machine VM_Name. Invalid operation for device ‘X’. This is most likely because you have one or more snapshot(s) present. You need first to delete/consolidate all snapshot before increasing the size of a… Read More »
I was a bit stunned when I attempt to deploy the vSphere Replication Appliance on a new v6.7 cluster. The Next button on the very first page where you select the template files just never turned blue (it always stayed grey) after selecting the files, just like if I did not selected all the files… Read More »
This issue appear to be banal, but actually consumed precious (lost) time of my day deploying a vCenter Server Appliance on an external Platform Service controller, version 6.5. At the “Install – Stage 2: Set Up vCenter Server Appliance”, you are asked for Single Sign-On infos of the PSC appliance. Clicking next, you may encounter… Read More »
VMware vCenter is now shifting toward the all in one appliance running Photon OS, a Linux container optimized operating system by VMware. Whatever you have lost your password or the deployment failed and the supplied password was not applied, you will need to reset it. To do so, simply the following procedure : 1. On… Read More »
I recently encountered the following message trying to copy a ISO file located on a datastore : Expected put message. Got: ERROR Unfortunately, this message isn’t telling us much. However by deduction, this error is caused by some lock on the file because already in use in some way. Make sure that no virtual machine… Read More »
Upgrading from vCenter 5.5 to 6.0? Then you might have run into the following issue during the setup : The range of ephemeral TCP ports on this system is 1025 to 65534. This range of ports is too large and the system must be reconfigured to use a smaller ephemeral port range before the install can… Read More »