Category: VMware

VMware Horizon View Composer: There was an error identifying the validity of the server 5

VMware Horizon View Composer: There was an error identifying the validity of the server

I  had an issue where vCenter Server service suddenly stopped and wouldn’t start and after a lot of log reading I came to a decision to create a new one as the issue didn’t...

Get ESXi Hosts WWNs Powershell and Shell Scripts 0

Get ESXi Hosts WWNs Powershell and Shell Scripts

So, at first you’d say oh this has been done before via PowerCLI and that is true in the case where you have a vCenter up and running and you’ve created all your clusters...

vSphere 6.0 Home Lab Upgrade (Issues faced) 11

vSphere 6.0 Home Lab Upgrade (Issues faced)

Finally I could find some quality time to spend with my lab (quality implies break and fix, no?) so one of my bad habits is that I try to install/update/upgrade things without reading about...

ESXi 5.5 and HP-AMS Heap globalCartel-1 already at its maximum size 1

ESXi 5.5 and HP-AMS Heap globalCartel-1 already at its maximum size

Nothing better than waking to a Saturday support call, no? Don’t you just love not having a weekend and support your clients instead ;-). So long story short, it was a VMware Horizon View...

vCenter Server 5.5 u2 hangs on Installing Directory Services 0

vCenter Server 5.5 u2 hangs on Installing Directory Services

Well I am playing around with something related to the vCenter Server installation, so I wanted to install vCenter Server 5.5 u2 on a standalone non domain server. I deployed my Windows Server 2012...

ESXi Failed to open device naa.(GUID) No space left on device 0

ESXi Failed to open device naa.(GUID) No space left on device

So I had a late call from a friend saying that he can’t mount a datastore after expanding it from the storage, it was a weekend and next day was Monday and the wife...

VMware VSA Export VMs from broken appliances 12

VMware VSA Export VMs from broken appliances

So the title sounds disastrous and its a fact that I had recently faced the issue at one of our customers where one of the VSA ESXi nodes failed due to hardware issues and...