In vSphere 5.5 the Rescan All does not show new lun after patching.
This is an error encountered during the installation of an infrastructure of 3 nodes with a SAS storage 12G (in this case an MD3420) After applying the patch 5.5.0 2068190 (update2) to 5.5.0 2718055 the Rescan All does not show the new LUN while the old ones still works. This is due to a […]
Vmware console error: Unable to connect to the MKS
This is an error I often see at customers when trying to open a virtual machine console: “unable to connect to the mks” The error is not so clear, but at 99,9% is due to incorrect DNS resolution, in other words….. if you have connected to the vcenter from a client, the […]
vSphere client 5.5 “Use Windows session credentials” error: Cannot complete login due to an incorrect username or password
I got a couple of times this error: trying to login to vcenter using the vsphere client with the option “Use Windows session credentials” an error of incorrect user/password is returned even if the credentials are correct. In many blogs (http://vinfrastructure.it/it/2014/01/problemi-nellautenticazione-in-vsphere-con-credenziali-di-dominio/) and vmware kb (http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2035510) dicono che l’errore si risolve ricreando l’active […]
“Veeam Free complete backup script” for vmware host
OK I had some’ free time in recent days and, since I was intrigued by the possibility to schedule the “zip backup” of the free Veeam 8 version with patch 2.0 just released, I decided to create a script to completely backup all the virtual machine managed by a vmware host. Tutto quello che […]
Veeam Backup & Replication 8.0 Update 2
E’ Veeam 8 Patch2 is out! It contains several improvements (i.e.. for integrating Veeam Endpoints Free) and some interesting news (the most important is the support for vsphere6!). A note that I think it's interesting concerns the free version: PowerShell Support in Free Edition. Start-VBRZip cmdlet is now enabled in Veeam Backup™ Free Edition, […]
vsphere client console error “The VMRC console has disconnected.. attempting to reconnect”
Yesterday I got this error, I was connected to a single esx 5.0 node.0 update 3, I could not open a newly created vm console in any way, I got this error in the upper part of the window: “The VMRC console has disconnected.. attempting to reconnect” alla fine la soluzione è stata semplicemente aggiornare il vsphere […]
vSphere 6.0 what’s new!
These are just some of the innovations presented at the online event of vmware (unfortunately I lost half of the event because the video streaming was not working… apparently I was not the only one): As usual, they have improved the maximum size of VMs, Now you can create vm with as many as 128 vCPUs and 4 TB of RAM (I'd like to know if there is […]
NetScaler VPX loses network connectivity on VMware ESXi 5
This is a workaround, Citrix is actively working on this problem, You can follow any updates on this issue through the ID number # 0510673. The following are the workarounds for this issue: Workaround 1 Install NetScaler VPX appliance on a previously known good VMware version and build. Workaround 2 SSH and log on to Citrix NetScaler VPX appliance […]