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…
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…
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…
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…
Today I placed a host in a cluster into maintenance mode and the virtual machines migrated to other hosts (DRS took care of this) without any issues. However, a few minutes after it had moved the VMs I received an…