- - Last year William Lam wrote a blog post on the VMware vSphere Blog about automatic expand a dvPort group port. You can find his post here: http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/. There is also a KB article about this subject. You can find it here: KB1022312 Just a quote from the KB article KB1022312 to explain the auto expand […]
- - Today I saw a new error with Veeam Backup and Replication. The error was: Host with uuid “<uuid>” was not found Within the Veeam console it looks like this: After a quick search in the Veeam knowledge base I found the Knowledge base article with KB1063. To fix this issue from the GUI go to […]
- - For vSphere 4.1 I wrote a PowerCLI script to attach NFS shares. You can find the script here. In vSphere 5 the properties has changed so I had to change the script. In fact the script is much simpler because all the properties can be found in $nfs.info.nas: The RemoteHost presents the IP address, The […]
- - After the upgrade of vCenter Operations 5.0.3 (vAPP) to vCenter Operations 5.6 I got an empty screen when I started the vCenter Operations Manager website and the Dashboard view: So I started to troubleshoot and a Goolge search. When I found the following thread on the VMware communities: http://communities.vmware.com/message/2158059. The fix is really easy. Just […]
- - After installing the latest batch of Microsoft updates on one of my virtualized domain controllers. I needed to restart the virtual machine. Nothing interesting so far but when the virtual machine was started I logged on with the correct credentials and noticed that the virtual machine was started in Check the safeboot parameter via bcdedit: […]
- - Yesterday was the release day of Veeam Backup & Replication 6.5. The first backup solution with full support for vSphere 5.1 and Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V 3.0. An overview of the new features can be found in the this Youtube video: I think the following features and enhancements are worth an upgrade. If you’re running […]
- - In this post I will show you how to move a Veeam Backup job to a new Veeam Backup server. You can also use this procedure to move the Backup files to a new drive and map the backup files to an existing backup job. The short version of this procedure is: Move the backup […]
- - One of my test Veeam Backup servers was running Windows 2008 R2 without Service Pack 1. So I decided to install Service Pack 1 but all I got was the following error message: To fix this error follow the next steps: Be sure there are now active Veeam Backup jobs. But I think that’s not […]
- - Just a quick note to remember how to disable the default web timeout of 30 minutes in vCenter Operations. Login as root on the UI VM. Open the the web.xml file with VI: vi/usr/lib/vmware-vcops/tomcat/webapps/vcops-vsphere/WEB-INF/web.xml Change the default value 30 to –1 to disable the timeout completely. Save the changes via ESC, :wq restart the vcopsweb […]
- - Today I was busy with PowerCLI and dvPort groups. I started to use the Get-VirtualPortgroup –Distributed cmdlet and parameter to retrieve some information about the dvPort group. But the default output doesn’t show the VlanId. See the screen shot below for the default output. I don’t know if this is a known issue between PowerCLI […]
About the Author
Featuring YD Feedwordpress Content Filter Plugin