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…
I am a VMware Employee!
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…