One of the more common questions I’m asked every year is how to patch an ESXi host without using VMware Update Manager because it is quite common for ESXi hosts as well as vCenter to not have internet access. What I typically do when asked
Problem You have a virtual machine in your vSphere environment that you would like to expand one of the hard disks but as you browse to the hard disk that needs to get expanded, you see that it is locked: You’ve checked to confirm that
Problem You’ve noticed that backup jobs within VDP have been failing with the following errors: VDP: An attempt made to backup a client failed because no data was found that matches the type of data that the job was configured for. VDP: An unexpected error
I recently ran into a strange issue with a client that had a satellite office with 4 users who use a Lenovo Windows 10 PC and VMware Horizon View client to connect back to their desktops in the main datacenter. The satellite office is relatively
Problem You’ve recently had to reset the password to the SQL authentication account used by your VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager to connect to the SRM database so you proceed to update the ODBC System DSN as such: However, attempting to start the VMware vCenter
Problem You attempt to expand a hard disk of a vSphere Replication replicated virtual machine but immediately receive the following error: Reconfigure virtual machine Invalid or unsupported virtual machine configuration. See the error stack for details on the cause of this problem. vSphere Replication does
Problem You’re attempting to log into VMware Horizon View where 2 factor authentication is enabled and you use your email address or UPN as the User name: However, you notice that you are unable to change the Domain field as the drop down box is
Problem You’ve recently set up a Windows 10 laptop with 3K or 10K resolution with the VMware Horizon Client version 4.3.0 build-4710077: … and ensured that the Allow display scaling was enabled: … but you noticed that the DPI settings for the virtual desktop you
One of the scripts I’ve used quite a lot over the past few years is the community driven vCheck PowerShell HTML framework script: http://www.virtu-al.net/vcheck-pluginsheaders/vcheck/ Most if not all of my clients have this script setup to run daily so that reports could be sent to
Problem You’ve recently upgraded vCenter 5.5 from Update 3c to 3e and immediately noticed that your existing VDP 6.1.2.19 appliance backup jobs fail and the closest KB you can find related to this issue is the following: 825Communication fails in vSphere Data Protection with vCenter
