During the migration wizard I got an error, I couldn’t find anything. So when you have the same problem, hopefully here is the solution. To read more about vCenter migration see here. The error was: Internal error occurred during vCenter database export It pups up when the wizard tries to export SQL database data. Another indication that something is wrong was that the three option […]
How PDL (Permanent Device Loss) looks like
Some time ago differentiation between PDL (Permanent Device Loss) and APD (All Path Down) was introduced to vSphere. In a PDL situation, the hosts does not expect the device to return. PDL happens for example, when an administrator un-presents a LUN from a host. APD on the other hand is completely unplanned. By default the host tries to get the device back. Starting with vSphere […]
[HP] bugs you should know about
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This is a list of bugs in HPE hardware and software. These are issues that could harm the availability of your environment. The list is updated irregularly. See this post for VMware bugs you should know about. [October 2017] PROBLEM In a certain constellation of NIC driver (bnx2x) and firmware version, an update of driver version (2.713.30) in ESXi hosts can physically kill a NIC. […]
View desktop cannot start because of errors on disposable-disk
You get this kind of errors when you or View Composer try to start a View desktop Cannot open the disk ‘/vmfs/volumes/4ef3113c-43bb01db-ad6c-101f74362f0e/VM/VM-v-dm-disposable-327e75b7-c97e-4671-9db2-b761d3de383.vmdk’ or one of the snapshot disks it depends on. The file specified is not a virtual disk This can be caused by operations like recompose, refresh or rebalance. Luckily it´s easy to fix – at least it´s worth the try: get rid of […]
[VMware] bugs you should know about
This post is about bugs you could be concerned about. I will try to keep it up-to-date. [October 2017] PSOD after update to 6.5 U1 on hosts equipped with 10G NICs. At the moment of writing this, KB2151749 did not work… [October 2017] When using WebClient, flash crashes. This is because some incompatibilities between flash and WebClient after updating flash to version 27.0.0.170. To resolve […]
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