I was asked by a client earlier this week for the root password of an ESX 4.1 server one of my colleagues installed. While we did get a response from my colleague before he flew
I’ve been meaning to write a post about recovering / reinstalling SRM 4.1 after having to rebuild one when a client suffered a host failure but never got the chance to until this weekend. The
To follow up on one of my previous posts: Installing VMware View 4.5 – Composer Server 2.5 and Connection & Transfer Server 4.5 https://blog.terenceluk.com/installing-vmware-view-45-composer/ … I recently had to deploy a new POC environment for
Problem You proceed to install VMware View Composer 4.6 by executing the installation binary VMware-viewcomposer-2.6.0-34155: … but as the install process commences, you are prompted with the following error message: Error 28014. Unable to close
I was asked an interesting question a few weeks ago when I was a part of an vSphere infrastructure start up after a datacenter move. What basically happened was that the virtual machines and hosts
Problem You notice that executing one of your recovery plan errors out at the Prepare Storage step with the message: Error: Reason: Could not open/create change tracking file. The logs will show that the step
Problem You notice that executing one of your VMware Site Recovery Manager recovery plan errors out at the Change Network Settings step with the message: Error: Operation timed out. The Change Network Settings step is
Problem You notice that executing one of your recovery plan errors out at the Prepare Storage step with the message: Error occurred: Failed to create group image: unknown exception The logs will show that the
Problem You log into your VMware Site Recovery Manager recovery site and noticed that several Recovery Plans have a yellow exclamation mark (warning) beside them and when viewing the Virtual Machines tab, several virtual machines’
I ran into an interesting challenge over the weekend while being a part of a datacenter move when we noticed that the vCenter for the environment started blue screening just as we were ready to
