How to use partedUtil to recover damaged VMFS5 (GPT) partition table
Personally I’m a big fan of using NFS (over 10GbE of course) storage with vSphere, I believe the performance gain that FC solutions offer is not...
June 23, 2014
Category: Troubleshooting
APD issue with NFS storage in vSphere ESXi 5.5 U1
A week ago folks twitted out about problem with NFS storage after upgrade to vSphere 5.5 U1 . I decided to blog out about it because...
April 23, 2014
vCAC 6.0 most annoying installation error
vCAC 6.0 most annoying installation error During my POC on vCAC I had to struggle with different type of issues but he most annoying one was...
March 31, 2014
Unable to add Windows 2008 to AD
From time to time anyone can make stupid mistake, typo or just simply make a wrong assumption. This time it was me . Whenever I tried...
March 4, 2014
vCenter fails to start after DSN changes
I had to change user name and password for vCenter DB DSN entry. After change vCenter service fails to start. In a vCenter logs there was...
February 19, 2014
Zero megabytes suported
I tried to migrate and clone some of the VM’s on my Test and Development cluster and I got very, very strange error message during validation:...
October 22, 2013
Recover VMFS datastore with all data
Sometimes it might happen that you lost datastore with all date for some reasons, deleted by mistake, VMFS corruption. It happen to me as well. Fortunately,...
September 20, 2013
vCAC 5.2 installation pitfall
During vCloud Automation Center 5.2 (called also vCAC 5.2) installation you might get into point where Model Manager Data fail to install At the end of...
July 28, 2013
vCenter installation stuck on installing Orchestrator
I had a problem with installation of vSphere vCenter 5.1 U1 server on Windows 2008 R2 SP1. During installation process installer got stuck on Installing Orchestrator,...
July 25, 2013
Fixing storage misalignment – Part 3
Offline disk alignment using NetApp toll called mbralignment tool In most cases offline alignment would be performed on old Linux or Solaris versions. make sure VM...
July 18, 2013
