The last couple of weeks have been extremely busy for me and thus my lack of posts. Part of what has been keeping me busy…
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…
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…