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…
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…
Have you restarted your management services today? (Cont.)
In my last blog entry, I spoke about the importance of restarting management services when troubleshooting VMware ESX issues. One thing that I have noticed…
Have you restarted your management services today?
There are two VMware ESX commands that every VMware ESX administrator should know and master: service mgmt-vmware restart service vmware-vpxa restart You may notice that…
Unable to add an ESX host to vCenter
While this issue has been discussed at length both in the communities and in knowledge base articles (ex. http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1003409), I cannot find a single KB…
Phantom VM
For those of you who do not know, I am a VMware fanatic. From time to time, I will be posting blog entries on discoveries…