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    How To Check The Primary Role Server In VMware Cluster?

    Posted on April 13, 2011 | No Comments
    Tweet There are two ways that you can check which server is currently acting as the Primary server role in a VMware Cluster. 1. Use the GUI (vcenter) 2. Use the CLI Using the GUI - Click a Cluster - Select the ‘Summary’ tab -...

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    How To Commit Snapshots In VMware ESXi?

    Posted on February 10, 2011 | No Comments
    Tweet If you take snapshots of your VMs, there are chances that a snapshot will grow too big that it uses all the spaces on a datastore.  The things with snapshots are that once a while you will need to merge and commit it back...

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    Insufficient Disk Space On Datastore

    Posted on February 3, 2011 | No Comments
    Tweet Today, we have experienced an issue with one of our Virtual Machine.  It couldn’t boot up at all and gives us the following error when we are trying to power it on. “Insufficient Disk Space On Datastore” Looking at the VM’s settings,  all of...

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  • Host IPMI System Event Log Status

    Host IPMI System Event Log Status

    Posted on November 30, 2010 | No Comments
    Tweet If you are getting the following errors on vSphere, * Alarm ‘Host IPMI System Event Log status’ on ServerName changed from Gray to Red * Health of SEL changed from gray to red. this mean that your event log is full.  You will need...

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  • VMware all-paths-down ADP error

    VMware all-paths-down ADP error

    Posted on June 11, 2010 | No Comments
    Tweet Recently we have been getting the All-Paths-Down (ADP) error on our VMware servers. Jun 10 16:58:54 vmkernel: 5:14:36:03.462 cpu1:4349)WARNING: NMP: nmp_DeviceAttemptFailover: Retry world restore device “naa.600601606d022300aa855779fe51df11″ – no more commands to retry So far we are still looking for a solution from VMware and...

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  • VMWare ESXi: How to enable SSH?

    VMWare ESXi: How to enable SSH?

    Posted on May 19, 2010 | No Comments
    Tweet If you have recently installed the VMWare ESXi software, you noticed that you can not ssh into the host.  This is because VMWare has disabled this feature on the ESXi server.  To be able to SSH, you will need to enable this feature on...

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  • VMWare ESXi Console Menu: Tech Support Mode

    VMWare ESXi Console Menu: Tech Support Mode

    Posted on May 14, 2010 | No Comments
    Tweet With all version of VMWare ESXi, you can enter into the console menu by pressing a sudden key combination.  This is also the Tech Support Mode too. VMWare ESXi Console mode: 1. At the console, press Alt+F1 2. Type in the word “unsupported” and...

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  • How to increase the Windows disk partition in VMWare?

    How to increase the Windows disk partition in VMWare?

    Posted on March 17, 2010 | No Comments
    Tweet Below are some useful links on how to increase the Windows disk partition in VMWare. Increasing the size of the disk partition: Link Extending partitions in Windows using Diskpart: Link * Watch the YouTube video on the second link. How to extend a data...

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  • VM Converter failed at 95% – Reconfiguration failed

    VM Converter failed at 95% – Reconfiguration failed

    Posted on March 11, 2010 | No Comments
    Tweet Recently, I’ve tested the VM Converter on a Windows 2003 Server.  The VM converter was installed on another station for client and server installation.  We was trying to convert a Windows 2003 server from physical to virtual (p2v).  The conversion went fine up to...

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  • Unable to access a file since it is locked

    Unable to access a file since it is locked

    Posted on March 9, 2010 | No Comments
    Tweet Recently, we ran into this problem where access to our VM was unavailable.  We are getting the “Unable to access a file since it is locked” error message with one of our VM that got converted from physical to Virtual (P2V) with the VM...

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