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VMWARE: Cannot update host with ESXCLI due to error OSError: [Errno 28] No space left on device

Martin 10/01/2018 0 Comments

When updating a ESXI HOST with esxcli, you may get this: Running command: esxcli software profile update -p ESXi-6.5.0-20180104001-standard \ -d https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml Output: [InstallationError] Failed updating the bootloader: Execution of command /usr/lib/vmware/bootloader-installer/install-bootloader failed: non-zero code returned return code: 1 output:…
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VMWARE: Meltdown and Spectre

Martin 09/01/2018 0 Comments

Due to the new CPU bug, memory can be read by criminals, therefore update your OS and virtuel environments: Relevant Products VMware vSphere ESXi (ESXi) VMware Workstation Pro / Player (Workstation) excluded Workstation version 14 VMware Fusion Pro / Fusion…
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Security, VMware

vCenter Server Appliance 6.5: 503 Service Unavailable

Martin 03/04/2017 1 Comment

After I installed the 5100 build of vCenter Server Appliance 6.5, and ran with it for 1 month, I suddenly could not connect to the Web Interface anymore, all I got was this: “503 Service Unavailable (Failed to connect to…
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VMWARE Workstation 11 – Cannot start service and console gives “internal” error.

Martin 08/03/2017 0 Comments

Suddenly when running VMWARE Workstation 11 on Windows 10, the VM’s would not start, when trying to start them they each give “internal error”. Looking in service manager, I found that the “VMWARE Workstation Server”-service was stopped, and could not…
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vSphere 6.5: The new vCenter server appliance finally here – how to migrate!

Martin 21/11/2016 0 Comments

VMWARE has just released vSphere 6.5 offering a lot of new and great features: vSphere 6.5 – Release Notes vSphere 6.5 – Whitepaper What’s new From my perspective, the biggest feature is the new “VMware vCenter Server 6.0 with an…
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Uncategorized, VMware

vSphere PowerCLI Script to automatically setup vCenter Alarm Email Notifications

Martin 04/09/2016 0 Comments

Managing vCenter server, everybody knows it can be a pain setting up notifications. Luckily this guy did some great work, simplifying everything 🙂 It changes notifications, e-mail and repeat, once, frequency on the most used notifications – it tested this…
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VEEAM: ESXi 6.0 Express Patch 6 breaks CBT and InstantVM recovery!

Martin 21/06/2016 0 Comments

Here we go again! VMWARE has released ESXi 6.0 Express Patch 6: Link This apparently breaks CBT, under the following conditions: Only VMs with Operating System Server 2008 or newer (Linux VMs are unaffected.) All HW Versions (7, 8, 9, 10…
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VEEAM, VMware

VMware ESXi 6.0.0 Update 2 released

Martin 17/03/2016 0 Comments

VMWARE has released update 2 for ESXI 6.0.0 This new update, has to cool new features: High Ethernet Link Speed: ESXi 6.0 Update 2 supports 25 G and 50 G ethernet link speeds. VMware Host Client: The VMware Host Client…
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Windows virtual machine event log reports the error: Reset to device, \Device\RaidPort0, was issued

Martin 13/01/2016 2 Comments

Had theese errors at a server the other day, it ended with the server rebooted unexspectedly: Found that VMWARE released this KB article: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2063346 Telling to go update the LSI_SAS driver in Windows. I found the driver at the Avagotech…
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VMware, WIN2008R2

vSphere 6.0 update 1 – Critical CBT issue!

Martin 19/11/2015 0 Comments

UPDATE 25/11-2015 : VMWARE fixed this with this patch: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2137545 —————————————————————————————— Again??! – really?! Unfortunately yes! 🙁 This time, when running vSphere 6 update 1 and hardware version 11, you cannot be sure that you can restore your incremental jobs….
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