In my previous post, I discussed how to configure vRA logging. In this post I would like to provide some Log Insight Linux agent configuration…
Log Insight Agent: Windows Configurations for Common Applications
In my previous post, I discussed how to build Log Insight Windows agent configuration sections for monitoring log files, in this post I would like…
Configuring Remote Syslog on vSphere Using vCenter Log Insight
Now that you have vCenter Log Insight deployed and configured, you need to configure sources to send their log messages to Log Insight. If you…
Automating VCSA Configuration
If you have deployed the VCSA a couple of dozen times like me then you quickly realize that it is necessary to script the initial…
Host is not responding
I was recently deploying a Cloud Foundry instance and was experiencing errors during the deployment. From the several failed deployments, I received the following BOSH…
Cannot install the vCenter agent service. Cannot upload agent
During a recent change ticket in a non-production environment I was called into an All Paths Down (APD) situation on some ESXi hosts. For those…
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…
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…
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…