vSphere Web Client – You’ll need a new app to open this VMware-csd
While logging in to a vSphere Web Client (version 6.0) I received the following message: “Do you want to allow this website to open an application on your computer?” After clicking Allow the following message appeared: "You’ll need a…
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…
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…
Using ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver
While trying to recover a virtual server that wouldn’t boot (NTLDR missing) I came across a wonderful tool called ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver. It allowed me to mount a VMDK file on my Windows 7 workstation and access it like…