Last time at a customer I saw the following situation in his vSphere/View environment: This situation will happen, when the underlying datastore is deleted and View Composer hasn’t remove all of his replicas properly....
A Customer called me yesterday and told me that he had certain problems with his VMFS datastores. He explained the following behavior: Cannot migrate VMs from one host to another host Cannot power on or...
HP launched the MicroServer Gen8 at their Discover conference in Las Vegas. For me as a MicroServer N40L homelab user, I was very excited about the new features. Here the new design for the...
After putting a Microsoft employee under a polygraph test, he had some quite interesting things to say. Watch the whole test here. 😉
Today I downloaded the TurnKey WordPress Appliance to see if it's a good source for my WordPress Dev environment. When I tried to deploy the appliance I got the follwoing error message: The specified operating...
A few weeks ago I upgraded some Clusters at a customer site from 5.0 U1 to 5.0 U2. All of the cluster used the Nexus 1000v (N1kv) for network connectivity. It was the first time...
Problem In the Hardware Status tab of the vCenter you see following message: No new host data available. Data will be updated in 5 minutes When you click Update after a few seconds this...
I got a problem where a VM needs consolidation because of 90 delta files on the datastore. Consolidation is a new feature in vSphere 5.x, which merges all delta file into the base vmdk, althought...
ESXi 5.0 uses a different technique to determine if Raw Device Mapped (RDM) LUNs are used for MSCS cluster devices. During a boot of an ESXi system the storage mid-layer attempts to discover all...
VMware has made available Update 1 for vSphere ESXi 5 and vCenter, providing patches and enhancements, like support for additional guest operation system customizations. This update can be applied to vSphere 5.0, which was...