Dell VC Plugin - delete queued job?
Does anyone know how to delete a queued job that has been scheduled with the Dell VC Plugin for vCenter? I have a queued job (simple BIOS upgrade) which does not execute as expected - I need to delete...
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Helped to re-login to the server via the vSphere Client.
View ArticleRe: Snapshots deleted and VM wont power on
That's indeed an interesting (and easy) alternative. I didn't even think of this option Thanks for the feedback. André
View Article"Unable to obtain hardware information for the selected machine." Error ov...
So here I am again. Running a V2V conversion on a Windows 2K8 box. I get the "Unable to obtain hardware information for the selected machine." error when I try the conversion. So I try running the...
View ArticleCPU has been disabled by the guest operating system error
Running VMPlayer version 3.1.3 build-324285 on Windows 7 Enterprise 64bit with 8G memory.When I try to install certain Linux-based VMs from ISOs, within few seconds, I get the error:"The CPU has been...
View ArticleRe: vMotion and large VM memory configurations
The only running VM is 455680 MB (445GB), 32 vCPU, HW MMU.
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.1 management network no connectivity with two nics connected
Is the management network configured on a different network from your production environment?
View ArticleNIC Teaming
Hi All I didn't see this in the forum and it is not clear from my Lowe book. If I setup NIC teaming in vmsrv does each NIC card on my server need a separate IP address? For example if four NICs are a...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.1 management network no connectivity with two nics connected
No. Network configuration between 5.0 and 5.1 has not changed.
View ArticleRe: CentOS 6.3 64b WSX does not start after reboot
I am sure that the issue was caused by the abrupt reboot. Most likely something was corrupted in the process.My previous problem always happened during ordinary shutdowns/reboot and they've disappeared...
View ArticleRe: upgrade esx 4.1 to esxi 4.1 in a cluster question
Thank you both for the quick response. That is very helpful. One last question just to double check. When I add the upgraded host back to the cluster, there will be esx and esxi host co-exist in one...
View ArticleRe: Hierarchy of native clones of file name.vmdk is too deep
if you are doing linked clones, then vCenter is the one performing the cloning task. vCloud Director is just making the API call to request the action. If you see the same/similar error state in...
View ArticleRe: VMware vCenter Server 5.1 Error "com.vmware.sps.fault.QsConnectionException"
I am getting the same error it happens anytime I make changes to the storage on a virtual machine. Also running vCenter 5.1
View ArticleConsolidate Helper -0 snapshot issues
Hello, I am on esx5 using local datastores with plenty of space. I am using Veeam Backup to back up my VM's. Occasionally I will see a "Consolidate Helper -0" snapshot left behind on the VM. It...
View ArticleIssues After Upgrade
Not exactly sure what went wrong but I recently upgraded my VM environment from ESXi 5.0 - 5.1.1 along with vcenter. Now I'm getting an error in View "Cannot connect to vcenter server because the...
View ArticleRe: upgrade esx 4.1 to esxi 4.1 in a cluster question
Basically you can run ESX and ESXi in a mixed cluster. Just in case you run into an issue with configuring HA, http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1019200 might help. André
View ArticleRe: Converter standalone 5.1 crashes host on retrieving source machine...
Can you switch Worker logging level to verbose (instructions how to do it can be found at http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=2008019) and...
View ArticleRe: Dell VC Plugin - delete queued job?
I have actually just found out how to do this, taken from this thread; OME System Update Fails - Dell OpenManage Essentials - Systems Management - Dell Community ## Check Jobswinrm e...
View ArticleBacking up the VCSA (vPostgres) via script
Hello,For those of you that use the VCSA, backup can be a manual process. VMware official...
View ArticleRe: NIC Teaming
It depends on what the NICs are used for. You only need IP addresses on the host side for VMKernel port groups (Management, vMotion, ...), not for the uplinks themselves. Uplinks used for virtual...
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