I faced this issue in my environment multiple times now. If I try to consolidate I get an error message “Unable to access file since it is locked” An easy way to get this resolved is, you shutdown the virtual machine and afterwards migrate it to a different host and datastore. After this migration you can consolidate …

To remove an VSA cluster you have to execute an script which is part of the VSA Manager. Details:

Based on the response of VMware on a SR it is possible to increase the memory of a VDP appliance to 16GB.

If you are facing issues with failed VDP backups try to increase the memory of the VDP appliances to 8GB. In my environment this has improved the situation. Still issues but 50% less.

I’m running 10 VDP appliance in an environment and I’m facing massive issues with backup. Sometimes the backup of all VM’s was successful but most of the time only a few virtual machines were successful. If someone else is facing equal issues would be great if you could post an comment. In the meantime I have opened an …

I have started to try out Openstack and I have to say that I’m really impressed. The installation on my HP Microserver was extremely easy using the Devstack script. All looks familiar to AWS and it was no problem at all to create an start the first virtual machine. That’s it for now … more post will come about …

It’s now a while that I have posted something new on my page 🙁 but currently I’m extremely busy at work. Setting up multiple new environments based on new / different hardware and in multiple data centre area’s. This is quite interesting because all environments will work together even if they don’t have direct …

If you are using Datastore cluster with enabled SDRS in vSphere 5.1 you possible will receive this error message. Call “StorageResourceManager.RecommendDatastores” for object “StorageResourceManager” on vCenter Server failed Currently is no fix available from VMware. But will possible be available in ESXi 5.1 Update 1. …

HP has announced a new version of the nice little Microserver. After the NL36 and NL40 now it is the NL54. The basics are the same the only real improvement is the new CPU which is now running on 2.2Ghz instead of 1.5Ghz. The official memory limit is still 8GB. 🙁 I had expected that HP will increase the limit to 16GB. …

Normally you install the vSphere Webclient on an additional windows server to separate it from the vCenter. This results in one additional Windows license (Server or 7 both possible). But wait why should I do this if there is the vCenter Appliance from VMware which contains the Webclient running on Linux? So I tried it …