Different types of vMotion in vSphere 6.0
vMotion allows you to migrate a running virtual machine from one host to another without downtime. There are 3 different types of vMotion in vSphere 6.0: Cross vSwitch vMotion – seamlessly migrate a virtual machine across different virtual switches Cross…
vSphere 6.0 configuration maximums
If you are looking for some information around the configuration maximums in vSphere 6.0 then this page may help. A single cluster can scale to support: 64 hosts 8000 virtual machines A single host can support: 480 CPUs 12TB RAM 2048 virtual…
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…