Installing vCenter Server 6.0 on Windows Server 2012R2
Today I am installing VMware vCenter Server 6.0 onto a Windows 2012R2 server. During the installation I will create a new Single Sign-On domain as I don’t already have an existing domain to join, as well as an embedded vPostgres…
Add CPU or RAM to a VM while it is powered on
It is possible to add CPU and memory to a virtual machine while it is powered on. This is not enabled by default but if you edit the settings of a VM you can enable Memory Hot Add and CPU…
vSphere 6.0 – create a new alarm for snapshots using the vSphere Web Client
We all know that snapshots can be dangerous if left to grow out of control – they will fill the datastore!. I always like to try and mitigate this risk by creating a new alarm definition to generate an…
Error: Invalid Configuration for device ‘0’
I have just had a VM move to a different host in a cluster (due to a hardware failure on the original host) but once complete it was inaccessible over the network. I logged on to the VM using the…
vSphere 6.0 – Create a new content library option is disabled
While logged in to the vSphere 6.0 Web Client as an administrator I am unable to create a new content library as the option is greyed out: Having checked the permissions it seems that the user was only an…