Installing vCenter 5.5 – Database job was created by another user
I’m installing vCenter Server 5.5 on a Windows 2012 R2 server, using a SQL 2012 instance on another server, and have encountered this error: Database job [Past day stats rollupWebbWorld] was created by another user. Use the same user to…
Installing vCenter Server 5.5 – The DB user entered does not have the required permissions
I’m installing vCenter Server 5.5 on a Windows 2012R2 server (with SQL 2012 on a different server). I’ve setup the DSN and now the installation fails with the following error: The DB user entered does not have the required permissions…
An error occurred while consolidating disks
Having received an alert that I need to consolidate disks on a VM I proceeded to do so. However, after an hour or so the operation failed with this message: The maximum consolidate retries was exceeded for scsi0:1 I tried…
Virtual machine disks consolidation is needed
This morning one of my VMs was reporting that virtual machine disks consolidation is needed, as shown in the screenshot below: I believe this was caused by a Veeam backup job, as there was also a snapshot size warning, but…
Veeam Backup & Replication job failed with warning – vmdk size changed
Yesterday I increased the size of a disk on a VM and today the backup job failed with a warning: Disk [DataStore1] Server1/Server1.vmdk size changed. Changed block tracking is disabled. This was because I didn’t rescan the vCenter server within…