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01 September

Resetting an expired password in vCenter 5.1 Single Sign-On (SSO)

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A customer of ours was unable to login to their VMware vCenter 5.1 environment. I researched the environment and concluded that there SSO password was expired. Error messages in the vSphere webclient: “provided credentials are not valid”. Also the...

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23 September

Solve the “System logs on ESXi Host are stored on non-persistent storage” message

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Recently I had to install a few VMware ESXi 5.5 host on removable SD cards. After the installation finishes and you connect the first time with the vSphere Client, a message is displayed. This means that the log files...

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27 August

What’s new in VMware vSphere 5.5

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At VMworld 2013 VMware announced the new VMware vSphere ESXi 5.5 version. Along with more new products. This blog post describes the new features of vSphere ESXi 5.5 and the VMware vCenter 5.5 server. vSphere ESXi Hypervisor Enhancements Hot-Pluggable...

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06 June

Template options grayed out

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Today I was trying to remove an old template from my home lab. This was not an easy task because all the options where grayed out. See screenshot of the vSphere Client. This is also the case in the...

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11 March

A general system error occured: pending vpxa update.

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When you upgrade a VMware vSphere environment the following error can occur when you just updated the VMware vCenter server. In my case this was an upgrade of VMware vCenter 4.1 to VMware vCenter 5.1 with VMware vSphere ESX...

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27 August

What’s New in VMware vSphere 5.1?

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vSphere 5.1 is VMware’s latest release of its industry-leading virtualization platform. This new release contains the following new features and enhancements: Compute Larger virtual machines – Virtual machines can grow two times larger than in any previous release to...

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04 January

Device Manager is running in read-only mode

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Today I was creating a template for my VMware environment, when I was trying to change the graphical interface card I was running into some problems. This is the message the Device Manager is giving me. The result is...

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18 July

VMware vSphere 5 links

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Eric Siebert created a list of links about all the VMware vSphere 5 content he could find. See vSphere-Land for the complete list. I’ve selected a few that are important to me or are worth reading. What’s New Whitepapers What’s New in VMware...

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13 January

ESX and ESXi logfile locations

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Location of ESX log files You can see ESX logs: From the Service Console From the vSphere Client connected directly to the ESX host (click Home > Administration > System Logs) From the VMware Infrastructure Client connected directly to...

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01 December

Best practices for virtual machine snapshots in the VMware environment

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After troubleshooting some problems with snapshots I ran in to an article on the VMware Knowledge base with some good info. See document ID 1025279 at http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=1025279 This is the article. Purpose This article provides best practice information for snapshots. It...

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