Tagged: ESXi

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...

Enable Nested Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V on VMware vSphere 5.5 2

Enable Nested Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V on VMware vSphere 5.5

Actually the topic itself is almost redundant but I couldn’t find a single post with results that actually work without going through comments by various readers, so after thorough testing I came with the...

vSphere 5.x Tip To Toe: VSA Appliance root access! Why? 0

vSphere 5.x Tip To Toe: VSA Appliance root access! Why?

Sometimes you get odd requests from customers but usually they have a valid argument, in this case a customer had an intelligent UPS which performs a soft shutdown of the virtual machines in case...

vSphere 5.x Tip To Toe: Replace a vSphere Storage Appliance (5.5) 0

vSphere 5.x Tip To Toe: Replace a vSphere Storage Appliance (5.5)

I was troubleshooting at a customer’s site and I found out that one of the appliances for some reason is corrupt from a configuration perspective, the cluster would always see the appliance offline when...

vSphere 5.x Tip To Toe: VMware VSA 5.3 Troubleshooting Scenario [1] 0

vSphere 5.x Tip To Toe: VMware VSA 5.3 Troubleshooting Scenario [1]

I’ve been recently involved in various VMware VSA implementations and I haven’t faced much problems with it, usually is something drastic happens to the vCenter server I would just reinstall the vCenter server and...

My submissions to vSphere Design Pocketbook 0

My submissions to vSphere Design Pocketbook

I was going through my notes, and I came across the points that I had earlier submitted to the vSphere Design Pocketbook contest that was/still is a generous courtesy from PernixData. Although some of...

vSphere 5.x Tip To Toe: vSphere Web Client on Windows Server 2012 2

vSphere 5.x Tip To Toe: vSphere Web Client on Windows Server 2012

Hello, If you’re installing vCenter 5.5 on Windows Server 2012 then you will need to enable the flash player plugin for Internet Explorer or install flash player for Firefox: For Internet Explorer: Open the...