The webpage cannot be displayed – launch remote console
When clicking the Launch Remote Console link in the vSphere Web Client I receive the following message: The webpage cannot be displayed This was because the VMRC (VMware remote Console) had not been installed on the workstation I was using. …
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…
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…
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…
Creating a new Customisation Specification
As part of my job I tend to deploy a lot of images from templates and I always use a customisation specification to make it easier. Why? Because it can automatically configure network settings (such as IP address, gateway and…