I recently tried to export the system logs from an ESXi via the vSphere client. Instead of receiving the generated bundled the host returned: A…
Joomla migration with Akeeba Backup
I moved my site to a new server last month, did you notice? Well, maybe some of you did as the server was unavailable for…
procmail: Renaming bogus mailbox
One of my web hosting customers reported that emails sent from his account were returned with the following error message: can’t create user output file.…
An error occurred during host configuration
When creating an NFS datastore on an ESXi host the other day, I received the following error message: An error occurred during host configuration. If…
fault.CustomizationPending.summary
Quick issue for you today. I was attempting to clone a RHEL 5 VM with a guest customization and the operation kept failing with: fault.CustomizationPending.summary.…
vCenter Server and MAC address conflicts
As I am sure you have heard by now, VMware recently released some updates including ESX/ESXi 4.1 Update 1, vCenter Server 4.1 Update 1 and…
invalid request: domain is not configured for preauth
I was recently playing around with my Zimbra installation and was specifically trying to figure out how to configure administrator accounts. By default, a single…
Cannot complete the configuration of the HA agent on the host
I enabled HA on a new cluster the other day and one of the hosts came back with the following error: Cannot complete the configuration…
Creating a LVM filesystem
This post is more for more reference, but hopefully someone else finds it useful as well. There are several posts online about LVM, but the…
Bug in PowerCLI 4.1.1: Set-VIRole
I was trying to set up some permissions on vCenter Server using PowerCLI. Here is an example of a command I was running: foreach ($role…