The VMware Configuration Maximums document is something I reference quite often. One configuration maximum that became relevant for me this week was under ESXi Host…
vSphere 5.0 and Cloud Infrastructure Suite Announced!
As I am sure you have heard by now, VMware announced yesterday the next step for the company in the cloud space. I would like…
vCloud Director Issues and Resolutions
vCloud Director (vCD) is a great application for its first iteration and I expect great things from it in the future. Like any application, it…
VMware Announces the Beta Open PaaS Offering of Cloud Foundry!
Over the last year, I have been working very closely with VMware developers writing cloud PaaS applications. As of today, one of these PaaS applications…
vCloud Director Open File Handles
For those of you with an active dpeloyment of VMware’s vCloud Director (vCD) or those looking into deploying it, I would like to point out…
A general system error occurred internal error vmodl.fault.HostCommunication
I am in the process of building my home lab. I recently purchased two servers and installed ESXi 4.1 on them. In addition, I deployed…
Configuring syslog on ESXi
I was assigned an interesting problem a few weeks back. A customer had requested that all ESXi servers have syslog configured in order to troubleshoot…
Open Virtualization Format (OVF)
I have been meaning to blog about the Open Virtualization Format (OVF) for sometime now. OVF is a VM packaging standard that was created by…
A general system error occurred: internal error
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…
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…