One of the common questions I’ve been asked by my colleagues who are a part of an on-premise migration to Azure project is how to reset an Azure Migrate Appliance, which has already been configured and registered with an existing Azure Migrate Project. A typical
Problem You attempt to set up the Azure Migrate appliance to perform an assessment on a VMware vSphere 6.7 environment by downloading the OVA appliance from Azure: MicrosoftAzureMigration.ova … but notice that the process fails in the vSphere client with the error message: Unable to
Problem You’ve noticed that one of the vCenter settings of a VMware Horizon View desktop pool displays is highlighted in red: Clicking into the vCenter Settings tab displays the following error message: Cannot find host or cluster for this desktop pool. Clicking on the Browse…
I’ve recently had a developer ask me why the socket calculation in VMware vSphere 6.5 is seemingly so different than the legacy 5.5 environment he was used to and I found it difficult to verbally walk him through the changes so I went ahead and
Problem You have VMware vSphere PowerCLI version 5.1.0.4977 installed: You attempt to connect to a vSphere vCenter 6.7: … using the Connect-VIServer cmdlet but it immediately fails with: PowerCLI C:Program Files (x86)VMwareInfrastructurevSphere PowerCLI> Connect-VIServer vCenter.contoso.local Connect-VIServer : 2/22/2019 11:41:37 AM Connect-VIServer The underlying connection was
Problem You attempt to upload a file onto a datastore in a vSphere 6.5 environment with the vSphere Client but notice that it fails with the error message: Clicking onto the Details… link beside The operation failed. reveals the following message: The operation failed The
Problem You’re attempting to deploy and OVF within a VMware vCenter Server 6.5 installed on a Microsoft Windows Server but noticed that the deployment within the vSphere Web client fails with the following error: This version of vCenter Server does not support Deploy OVF Template
It has been a while since I’ve deployed a vSphere Replication Appliance and since I had the opportunity to do so this week, I took the time to screenshot the process so I can write this blog post demonstrated how to use the Content Library
Problem You’ve noticed that the Content Library service on your Windows vCenter Server 6.5 has stopped: C:Program FilesVMwarevCenter Serverbin>service-control –status Running: VMWareAfdService VMWareCertificateService VMWareDirectoryService VMwareComponentManager VMwareDNSService VMwareIdentityMgmtService VMwareSTS VServiceManager rhttpproxy vPostgres vapiEndpoint vimPBSM vmon vmonapi vmsyslogcollector vmware-cis-config vmware-license vmware-perfcharts vmware-psc-client vmwareServiceControlAgent vpxd vpxd-svcs vsan-health vsphere-ui
Problem You attempt to connect to the login page of a vCenter 6.5 server via the vSphere Web Client but receive the following error message from the browser: 503 Service Unavailable (Failed to connect to endpoing: [class Vmacore::Http::NamedPipeServiceSpec:0x00000263204438b0] _serverNamespace = / action = Allow _pipeName
