I referenced this in an earlier post, but we continue to have datastore alarm problems on hosts running 4.0U2 connected […]
vCenter 4.1 upgrade problem
I was upgrading vCenter from 4.0 U2 to 4.1 and installing it on a clean Windows 2008 64-bit server. The […]
Guest NICs disconnected after upgrade
We are upgrading our infrastructure to ESXi 4.1 and had an unexpected result in Development cluster where multiple VMs were […]
vSphere Datastore Last Updated timestamp
We encountered issues that mysteriously appeared after a patching window on our vCenter server. We had just upgraded to vCenter […]
Windows must be reinstalled to activate
We got this message popping up on a Windows 2008 Enterprise server – we cloned 10 machines from the same […]
Alarm problem after vCenter 4.1 upgrade
UPDATE 12/23/2010 VMware support confirms that there is a bug related to the vCenter 4.1 upgrade, it appears to be […]
vSphere workingDir configuration parameter erased by Storage vMotion
The workingDir parameter allows you to configure a specific datastore for VM snapshots. We attempted to configure the workingDir parameter […]
Windows 2008 Domain Controller Metadata
As we set up for our DR test today, we determined that were going to need to delete all of […]
Repairing Windows 2008 Server
Although we’ve had Windows 2008 in the environment for quite some time, but this is the first time I’d encountered […]
PowerCLI proxy problems
oday, I couldn’t connect to my vCenter server using Connect-VIServer. It failed with “Could not connect using the requested protocol.” […]