When trying to join a vcenter to domain I was given the following error in the GUI“The format of the specified computer name is invalid”Turns out you […]
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The description for Event ID 1000 from source VMware VirtualCenter Server cannot
Recently after rebooting a VMWare server , the VCenter Server service would not start The description for Event ID 1000 from source VMware VirtualCenter Server cannot C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Virtual […]
How to change all storage paths of all datastores on a host in VCenter
This will only work once a host has been added to Vcenter.Use Vmware CLI to run this with the variables in Square Brackets edited outThis will change […]
How to Slipstream VMware ESX Install
Create a Bootable VMware install as usual on USB Memory StickDump the below into a file called ks.cfg ( Change the value in the square brakets before […]
Turning on iLO and upgrade to VMWare 6 provides the following error in the iLo
Uncorrectable Machine Check Exception (Board 0, Processor 1, APIC ID 0x00000001, Bank 0x00000005, Status 0xB2000000’00800400, Address 0x00000000’00000000, Misc 0x00000000’00000000)Server reboots randomly and the above is displayed in […]
Network Adapter Card stays unconnected in VMware
Recently spun up a new Windows 7 virtual machine on an ESX cluster. After installing VMware Tools and rebooting the machine , the NIC card would stay […]
VMware LUN Path Selection Policy ( PSP )
When provisioning a new VMware host important things to configure1) NTP Server2) IP of Management with DNS Name3) Portgroup Names4) Syslog Server5) SNMP Trap for monitoring6) Renaming […]
VMware PowerCLi Powershell Script to get VMWare Tools out of Date and Virtual Machine Hardware Versions
Free License Upgrade from VMware Esxi 5.1\5.5 to 6.0 with Support Contract
If you have a support contract with Vmware there’s a few upgrade routes you can take without purchasing licenses per link : http://kb.vmware.com/kb/20599264.x> 5.0,5.1,5.55.1 -> 5.55.5 -> […]
ReClaiming a VMware Datastore using vmkfstools Scheduled Task
When your LUN useage shows useage that does not match your datastore useage you will need to perform a reclaim on the lun. Remember the LUN will need […]
HA unsuccessfully failed over VM on HOST in cluster vSphere HA will retry if the maximum number of attempts has not been exceeded. Reason: Operation timed out.
Recently during a Veeam backup HA kicked in due to a problem with VCenter and marked two machines as Invalid Veeam started backup and created snapshot on […]
Error creating test bubble image from group instance RGID of group GID – java.lang.NullPointerException
Error – Error creating test bubble image from group instance ‘RGID-xxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx’ of group ‘GID-xxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxx’ on VR Server ‘localhost.localdom’ (address ‘xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx’). VRM Server generic error. Please check the […]