Problem You attempt to start a VMware vSphere virtual machine but notice that the Windows operating system fails to boot: Windows Boot Manager Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix the problem: Insert your Windows installation
I’ve been working with VMware Site Recover Manager (SRM) sparsely over the past few years and had thought I’ve seen most of the error messages but came across one today that I had not seen before so I thought it would be worth while to
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
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
Problem I recently had to upgrade a VMware vCenter 5.5 server from Update 3c to 3e and ran into an issue where the VMware vCenter Inventory Service upgrade would continuous fail with the following message: The wizard was interrupted before VMware vCenter Inventory Service could
I recently ran into an extremely strange issue at a client’s environment that a VMware support engineer never managed to resolve and it was only by chance that I was able to figure out a workaround. The likelihood of running into this issue again is
I’ve recently ran into an issue at a client’s vSphere 5.5 environment where I was unable to configure any properties of a port group on the distributed switches. The properties of the environment are as follows: vCenter Server version: 5.5.0, 3252642 ESXi version: 5.5.0, 3116895
