Over the last week, I have been in the process of applying the latest patches to one of the VI3 environments I manage. While looking…
Forcing VMware Update Manager to download patches
While many people may already know how to do this, I always seem to forget so I thought it was worth blogging about. VMware Update…
Using VMware Update Manager without DNS
I had an interesting challenge this past week. I had a development environment with a vCenter Server instance hosted on a private network. This private…
DCOM Error
Today, while working on a Windows jump box I received a Windows error message stating that DCOM had shutdown unexpectedly and as such the computer…
Unable to apply DRS resource settings on host
While looking for a VM on a production vCenter Server instance the other day, I noticed that an ESX host had a red exclamation point…
Macbook Keyboard Display
A couple weeks back, my wife asked me to take a look at her Macbook Pro as the display was scrambled with black and white…
EDA: No COS NICs have been added by the user
I use the ESX Deployment Appliance (EDA) for all of my automated ESX(i) installation needs. The other day, I was attempting to configure an automated…
Operation Timed Out
Another interested VMware problem today: I attempted to put a host into maintenance mode, but after making it to 60% the operation failed. The error…