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 […]
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VMware PowerCLi Powershell Script to get VMWare Tools out of Date and Virtual Machine Hardware Versions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 […]
Error – Unable to copy the configuration file – VMWare Site Recovery
When trying to test a Recovery Plan ( DR Bubble ) upon the starting up two of the machines we get the following error show up in […]
SQL Indexing and VEAM/VMWare Backups Speed Up
Recently we were having issues with the time period of our Veam backups of SQL database. Veam creates a snapshot of a server, which can then be […]