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An error occurred while consolidating disks

An error occurred while consolidating disks

September 11, 2014 · by dave.webb · in ESX, Troubleshooting, vCentre

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

Virtual machine disks consolidation is needed

September 9, 2014 · by dave.webb · in ESX, ESXi, Maintenance, Troubleshooting

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…

Error when editing virtual machine properties using vCenter Appliance 5.5

Error when editing virtual machine properties using vCenter Appliance 5.5

February 10, 2014 · by dave.webb · in ESXi, Troubleshooting, vCentre

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…

Deploy VMware vCenter Server 5.5 Update 1 Appliance using an OVF template

Deploy VMware vCenter Server 5.5 Update 1 Appliance using an OVF template

February 8, 2014 · by dave.webb · in ESX, Installation

Today I am deploying a VMware vCenter Server 5.5 Update 1 Appliance by using the OVF template available for download on the VMware web site.  Before starting, I downloaded the template files from https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?productId=352&downloadGroup=VC550B.  Once downloaded, here are the steps…

Creating a Resource Pool

October 18, 2012 · by dave.webb · in ESX, ESXi, vCentre

  A Resource Pool is a pool of CPU and memory resources.  The resources are allocated based on the CPU and memory shares that are defined and creating one is optional.  Why create  a Resource Pool?  Because it allows you…

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