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The goal of this action was to upgrade a cluster with nvidia graphics card from 6.7 to 7.0.3. Before the upgrade everything worked fine. You where able to live vmotion vm:s with vgpu to another host. Problem: Everything worked from vm side, but was not able to vmotion live vm:s between hosts. Steps: Upgrade esxi... Continue Reading →
Started the upgrade 08:10 and the upgrade was finished 9:37. I have only about 10 host in OME. I takes long time just wait. Do not forget to delete the snapshot after the upgrade is finnished. The CPU was like this during the time. The screen that was there for a long time was this:... Continue Reading →
We where using hotadd function to backup on some SQL servers. From 40 min backup time to 10 hours! After applying veeam patch https://storage.veeam.com/Fix_138831_a62af14d05.zip The backup wnt down to 40 min again. Full story from veeam: https://www.veeam.com/kb2711
One smash, two flies After upgrading from 6.5 vcsa to 6.7 without any problem, update manager is missing in the clients, both flash and html5. No errors on services, and everything looked fine. But when I from Linux client browse to virtualcenter adress I get: NET::ERR_CERT_INVALID And I am not able to proceed to the... Continue Reading →
This is not used after 6.0. You will see a warning in VirtualCeneter that you have a certificate warning. And if you go in to service you have a serivice that has a yellow warning. Because this is not used you can delete this one. ssh to vcenter Command> shell Shell access is granted to... Continue Reading →
Replace a Process Level Token privilege to the user Error when you do the prechecks https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn221975.aspx Login with your Administrator account on the Windows machine. Go to Control Panel and open the Administrative Tools. Open Local Security Policy and expand Local Policies. Under User Rights Assignment, open the Replace a Process Level Token. Add service account name that is being used by the... Continue Reading →
From: https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2147284 Cautions: The following is a destructive task. Ensure you have working backups and/or snapshots of the vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 before proceeding. Connect to vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 via SSH Run the shell command to switch to the BASH Shell:shell Stop the VMware Update Manager Service:service-control --stop vmware-updatemgr Run the following command... Continue Reading →
From: http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2010/07/how-to-unregister-vcenter.html 1. Point your web browser to your vCenter server: https://VC-Server/mob and login. 2. Click on content: 3. Locate and click on ExtensionManager: 4. Click on the plugin you are interested in removing: 5. Record the plugin key id which will be used to remove the plugin: 6. Now, go back to previous page and at the... Continue Reading →
from the migration log: 2017-08-18 15:31:41.969Z| migration-assistant-5973321| E: ParsePreUpgradeOutput: Error: Failed to discover a system name that is compatible with both your VMware vCenter Server certificate and your VMware Single Sign-On certificate that can be used to migrate to a VMware vCenter Server Appliance with an embedded Platform Services Controller. 2017-08-18 15:31:41.969Z| migration-assistant-5973321| I: ParsePreUpgradeOutput:... Continue Reading →
Felmeddelande med Precheck vid migrering: Error: Source vCenter Server schema validation found an issue. 1 [42000](50000) [Microsoft][SQL Server Native Client 10.0][SQL Server]ERROR ! Missing constraints: VPX_ENTITY_LAST_EVENT.FK_VPX_LAST_EVENT_EVENT; Testa först med detta sql script: alter table VPX_ENTITY_LAST_EVENT add constraint FK_VPX_LAST_EVENT_EVENT foreign key(LAST_EVENT_ID) references VPX_EVENT (EVENT_ID) on delete cascade Funkar inte detta måste följande göras: Please follow... Continue Reading →
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