Troubleshooting vCenter Service startup issues
There are lots of reasons a vCenter Service would not start up. The usual suspect is an unavailable SQL database. ESPECIALLY when the SQL database is LOCAL to…
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Removing VMware Site Recovery Manager Site IDs from vCenter.
If you have ever installed VMware’s Site Recovery Manager 4 in a Many to One failover configuration, you know that a single SRM installation can multiple Site IDs. …
VMware View : Transfer Status LOCKED.
Installing the new View 4.6 Transfer server (for Local Mode Offline Desktops) and I noticed that the Transfer Server was UNMOVABLE. Right click the VM and you will…
VMware Enterprise or Enterprise Plus?
You may have heard about the coming licensing changes from VMware. You may have heard about the new vRAM licensing and some of the impacts it will have…
Citrix Provisioning with VMXNET3 : Blue Screen of Death on Clones
If you have been streaming Windows 7 or Windows 2008 R2 vDisks using Citrix Provisioning Services to VMware’s ESX, you’ve probably run into a Blue Screen of Death…
VMware Site Recovery Manager – Error while executing ‘DiscoverLuns’ command.
During a VMware Site Recovery Manager implementation, I ran into this pesky error. Not really an SRM error specifically (more of an issue with the SRA) but a…
Unable to add ESXI host to VirtualCenter
Adding a host to vCenter is usually a pretty trivial thing. Click. Done. Usually. Sometimes (especially after a repair or move from one vCenter to another), you can…
ESXi Disk Full.
While working in my Lab, I was rebuilding an ESXi host and began to run into a strange issue. I was unable to save any configuration changes to…
Installing VMware Site Recovery Manager : Please wait while setup is initializing…
Does this screen look familiar? Double clicking the SRM installation executable and you will be presented with this familiar initialization bar. The issue is that it will NEVER…