Recently had a virtual machine show up with a disk size of 0MB in the Vmware client. The machine was still running however Veeam backups were failing.Checking […]
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Unable to find SRA files. You must install SRA before adding or modifying an array manager.
Error: Unable to find SRA files. You must install SRA before adding or modifying an array manager.Troubleshooting steps:1.Took RDP to both the SRM servers.2. Reset the [email protected] […]
Vmware CIM Service stops monitoring host after Windows Update
Unable to establish CIM session with ESX server: The remote server returned an error: (501) Not Implemented.Looking in cat /var/log/messagesWe see Cipher Errors , SHA-1 was decomissioned in […]
Installing NCM ( Network Connection Manager) for Nimble – 6.5 Vmware
The below command needs to be run on Each Host , it will remove the old one and install the new oneesxcli software vib install -d https://update.nimblestorage.com/esx6.5/ncm/index.xmlThe host […]
Find VM’s using e1000 Adapter Running Windows
Powershell script to list machines running the out of date e1000 Adapter in Windows so you can update them to VMXnet3 !
How to enable SNMP monitoring on a VCSA 6.5 Vmware Vcenter
Enabled SSH Login on your VCenter Appliance ( this can be done through the GUI or via Direct Console Access )Run the below commands replacing username and […]
Roll Back \ Downgrade of ESX 6.5 to ESX 6 Settings
After I found HP’s version of 6.5 wasn’t stable yet : http://pariswells.com/blog/random/hp-vmware-6-5-psod We needed to roll back to v6 UP2You can usually do this if you’ve done an upgrade […]
How to set SNMP on Vmware
ESX Version 5You need to use the CLI to edtit this per below : PowerCLI C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI> get-vmhostsnmp | set-vmhostsnmp -enable:$true -readonlycommunity @(“%communityname%”) -addtarget -targetcommunity ‘%communityname%’ […]
Power-on Reset Occuring on Vmware Host
Use this command on the host to check for Power-On Reset Errorse.g.Note – ESXi uses UTC for its timezone so minus 5 hours to match ESTThese should […]
Migrate VDM’s from one SAN to Another
It might be worth checking if these still need to be RDM’s. This was previously used for older versions of VMDK’s could only use 2TB , now […]
Vmware : Cannot create snapshot. Operation not allowed in current state
Login to the host where the virtual machine lies and try and do a snapshot via here instead of VCentreIf Take Snapshot is greyed out on the […]
Get list of Windows Updates needed to be installed on Virtual Machine Enviroment Vmware/ Powershell
Run Vmware PowercliRun Connect-ViServer %name of server%Run the output of below to a text fileE.g. .\Get-PendingUpdate.ps1 | Output-File file.txt