From time to time I learn something new about features in vSphere and other products I thought I was familiar with, so I decided to create a series of blog posts under the topic...
Yesterday Henrik Andersson and I discovered a strange problem. The following screenshot shows the problem we saw in our demo environment. To be clear, this error showed up as soon as we clicked Create new VM Storage Policy....
I had this problem several times in the last few months. In a small environment the customer is using SQL 2008 R2 Express Edition for their vCenter database. When using SQL 2008 R2 Express...
Last time a colleague came to me and ask me how to pass-through a license dongle to a VM. The first thing that came to my mind was “Hm…. haven’t done that before, but...
Today I was at a customer site and the customer told my a really strange story and I don’t know if everybody else is/was aware of the following behavior. But first of all the story. He was...
Today I tried to install the new NexentaStor 4.0.1 on my x3650 M2 with local harddisks. To get the best performance my plan was to pass-through all local disks to the VM. For that...
Yesterday I observed a small problem in my environment. When I clicked on the hardware status tab in the C# client I got the following error message. I done a little research on Google...
I upgraded one of my home lab ESX to 5.5. After that I recognized that network connectivity on my Distributed switch was lost. After a quick research I found out that my vmnic which...
In Part 1 of this series I described 3 factors which will put a successful vSphere upgrade at risk. In the second part I will describe the impact of backup solutions. When I get...
Problem When you select and browse a datastore in 5.1 and higher you get the following error message: com.vmware.sps.fault.QsConnectionException If you are not familiar with all the vCenter plug-ins you can login to https://IP-or-FQDN-of-vCenter/mob...