If you recently changed your vCenter name (FQDN or IP) and use Veeam for backup, you need to tell Veeam about it, otherwise your backups will fail after this change. Fortunately, a built-in Veeam PowerShell command is available to do so. (The example below assume you’d like to change your vCenter name from 192.168.10.200 to… Read More »
I recently encountered the following behavior on VMware ESXi, where the following error was showing up : Host storage status But everything was showing all good on the iDRAC side and no apparent errors checking the datastore view in vCenter. Then, looking at the Hardware Health on the host : Monitor > Hardware Health >… Read More »
Encountering the following error while importing OVF template in vCenter? Transfer failed: The OVF descriptor is not available This is usually caused by file corruption. Either the source template is corrupted, or the corruption occurred in transit between the source and vCenter. Try first reimporting again, if failing, check md5sum signature if available, re-export the… Read More »
The VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) propose several disk sizing at the time of deployment. Eventually, disk shortage may occur, especially for the /var/log disk. This example assume you want to increase the default 10 Gb /var/log volume located on the virtual Hard Disk 5. 1. From the vCenter oe ESXi WebUI, edit the VCSA… Read More »
Morpheus Cloud Management Platform 5.1.1 error out as followed when installing the Debian package : * file[/etc/sudoers.d/80-morpheus-app] action create * Parent directory /etc/sudoers.d does not exist. ================================================================================ Error executing action `create` on resource ‘file[/etc/sudoers.d/80-morpheus-app]’ ================================================================================ Chef::Exceptions::EnclosingDirectoryDoesNotExist ———————————————— Parent directory /etc/sudoers.d does not exist. As obviously stated in the message, the folder “/etc/sudoers.d” does not exist,… Read More »
VMware vSphere products are available for free evaluation and come with a 60 days trial period, which should be enough for most but you may be caught at some point in a situation where you need to have a bit more time to try things out. Please note that this method isn’t approved or supported… Read More »
Attempting to establish SFTP connection to VCSA appliance end up with error: Error: Received unexpected end-of-file from SFTP server Error: Could not connect to server This is a common issue caused by incorrect shell for root user. To fix this issue, simply change the shell for the root user with the following command: chsh -s… Read More »
You may at some point end up with virtual machines marked with “Invalid” status in the vSphere Web client or vCenter. You will also notice that the contextual menu does not show up the usual options (mostly everything is greyed out) and more importantly, the “Unregister” or “Delete” options are unfortunately unavailable. Chill out, there… Read More »
You may have experienced the following behavior while trying to upgrade your vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) to 6.7.x – after submitting the IP and credentials information of the current vCenter and host, the wizard end up with error without any details. However, after downloading the log (there is a link within the red error bubble… Read More »
Almost 10 years ago, VMware released “VMware Installation Bundle”, or commonly known as VIB, to make it easier for 3rd party and administrators to install software components to their flagship virtualization platform, vSphere ESXi. The process is quite straight forward and you usually can’t go wrong if you are installing the right VIB for the… Read More »