ESXi 6.5 – remove an invalid virtual machine using the command line
I have a standalone ESXi 6.5 host that is showing some invalid VMs: This is because I removed the storage containing the VMs without removing them from the inventory. Unfortunately, I cannot remove them from the GUI as most of…
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…
Add a new VMware server to Veeam Backup & Replication Free 7.0
Now that I have installed Veeam Backup & Replication 7.0 I need to add the ESX host that contains the VMs. It’s just a few simple steps… 1. Open Veeam Backup & Replication Free Edition 2. Right-click VMware vSphere and…
Error when editing virtual machine properties using vCenter Appliance 5.5
Since installing vCenter Server Appliance 5.5 I have encountered the following error message every time I edit the properties of a virtual machine and click OK, event if I don’t make any changes: com.vmware.sps.fault.QsConnectionException The server hasn’t been restarted since…
Error creating a datastore in ESXi 5.5
I have just downloaded a trial copy of ESXi 5.5 and installed it onto a server with 3 hard disks. The hypervisor is installed on disk 1 but when attempting to create datastores on disks 2 and 3 I receive…