Just upgraded VMware Workstation on my Vista Machine and the Unity feature is great. I also have upgraded Fusion which also includes the Unity feature and greatly improves Fusion on the Mac. Most of my testing has been with Fusion and it’s just a fabulous experience on the Mac. I feel that VMware has made [...]
Today I had VM that was hung and any command ran on the VM did nothing. So after further investigation there was a process still running under the VM. So performing the following command resolved the issue.
Login to the SC on which the VM is running on
ps -ef | grep Name-Of-VM (This will return the [...]
I thought since there are lot of questions on the VMware Community forums pertaining to HA errors I would document a list of troubleshooting tips:
Check to make sure DNS is configured properly
Check to see if you can resolve DNS
Check DNS records
Make sure you are using FQDN’s
Check your /etc/hosts file
Make sure your using lower case
Check Service [...]
This is my first time at VMworld, so maybe my expectations are lower than others. So far the first day of the event has went quite smooth for a conference of 14,000. Registration was nicely organized and quick. The lab I participated in was “ESX/ESXi Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting. This lab was good John Hall [...]
Please refer to the following post for troubleshooting HA Errors.
We recently just changed an IP on our second service console in ESX. After this we changed the DNS record to reflect the new IP. We then re-configured the ESX host for HA, and received the following error ‘An error occurred during configuration of the HA [...]
After upgrading one of our ESX 3.5 Update 2 host I noticed the Health Status was missing. So after digging into this further disconnecting the host and re-connecting the host the Health Status re-appeared under configuration. This seems to be an issue with VC not picking up the new feature.
In all of VMware’s documentation, it says that you must use SQL Authentication with a Remote SQL Database. In our environment all of our MSSQL servers are setup with Windows authentication. So we decided to try a remote Virtual Center Database with Windows Authentication installation. It seems the only thing you need to change [...]
Yesterday a colleague of mine asked how to rename a .vmdk file ,so it matches the VM’s name in Virtual Center. This is actually the first time I had to perform this operation. So at first I thought I might just V2V the machine, but thought there must be an easier way to rename a [...]
The Microsoft SVVP Program (Microsoft Server Virtualization Validation Program) is a program that Microsoft setup in June 2008. It is used to validate it’s server products on a virtual platforms. It allows Microsoft to provide improved support for their products that are being used in virtual environments.
This is a good thing for the virtualization world [...]
After upgrading our 3.5 ESX host at work. I noticed that the Current Failover Capacity had decreased from four to one. This was a major drop considering we only upgraded the host to 3.5. So wondering what could have caused this I scrolled google ,but found very little info except for a post stating that [...]
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