Troubleshooting – cannot stop, start or remove VM snapshot
In the morning I was trying to remove snapshot from VM using vSphere client, to my surprise, I couldn’t remove it. An error says: Remove snapshot...
March 12, 2012
Category: Troubleshooting
Cannot add or reconnect host to vCenter server
Few days ago, after restart one of my ESX servers I wasn’t able connect it back to vCenter server. Connection process bar hangs on 80% and...
December 14, 2011
Missing network applet in Windows 2008 and Linux after clone
After clone of Windows 2008 (regardless of the version), LAN applet is missing in a network configuration panel Windows To solve that problem execute below command...
November 17, 2011
Error 111 or 503 Service Unavailable – after ESX restart
It might happen that after restart of the ESX it’s not possible to connect it back to vCenter or connect directly with vSphere client it’s not...
November 2, 2011
Mount VMFS snapshot to vSphere ESX(i) hosts
There are some situations (disaster recovery, restore etc) were replicated LUN with VMFS or VMFS snapshot has to be mounted. There are two ways doing that...
September 30, 2011
Virtual machine stop logging to vmware.log
Over the weekend my fried did migration from NetAPP 3040 to IBM N6060 using SVmotion. After couple of days he found that some of the VMs...
July 28, 2011
Missing historical performance data in vCenter
After upgrade from vSphere 4.0 to vSphere 4.1 U1 a colleague of mine notice that there are a lot of gaps in historical performance data. Problems...
July 27, 2011
exupdate and dependency problem
In case you still have ESX 4.0 in your enterprise and update to U3 failed with following error: DependencyError: Requested VIB rpm_vmware-esx-vmkernel64 conflicts with the host...
July 25, 2011
Upgrading to vCenter server 4.0 update 1 or vcenter server 4.1 fails
Last Friday I did upgrade vCenter from vSphere 4.0 to vSphere 4.1 U1. During upgrade I had to solve an issue which I saw for the...
July 18, 2011
How to enable SSH on ESXi 4.1
Many people is asking me “How can I enable SSH in ESXi 4.1 server. For version ESXi 4.1 is much more easier than for ESXI 3.5...
October 25, 2010
