What a month this has been so far… 3 exams, 2 passed! Yes, I passed both VCP4 and VCP5 exams in span of about last 11 days. I took training back in August 2010 in order to take the VCP4 exam, I’ve blogged about that experience here. The training is required for the exam but… Continue reading Passed VCP4 and VCP5 Exams, Study Tips and Thoughts
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Virtualization blog featuring my home virtualization lab, tutorials, network topology and configuration guides in the virtualized environments.
VMware vCenter 5 Installation Fails / Error code 1603
In preparation for VCP-510 exam since I passed VCP4 couple of days ago, I am in process of upgrading my vsphere 4.1 home lab to vSphere 5.0 and started upgrading vCenter yesterday. Apparently, during the initial installation, as vCenter 5 install is about to complete, it gave me an error: Installation Completed The Wizard was… Continue reading VMware vCenter 5 Installation Fails / Error code 1603
How to enable iSCSI and Jumbo Frames on VMware ESX/ESXi
I am redoing my lab at home (more on that in coming weeks) and wanted to test out jumbo frames support in vmware esxi with my iSCSI NAS device. This article by vmware provides information related to setting up a NAS (Network Attached Storage) and an iSCSI environment with Jumbo Frames. Note: Jumbo Frames on… Continue reading How to enable iSCSI and Jumbo Frames on VMware ESX/ESXi
VMware: Unable to migrate VM, missing snapshot file and out of space Error
The error in the headline is right out of snapshot hell. If you have virtual machines (VMs) with large memory requirements, you probably know that you need extra space on the datastore to store the Memory Swap file (.vswp). When datastore housing the VM runs out of diskspace, you will not be able to create… Continue reading VMware: Unable to migrate VM, missing snapshot file and out of space Error
Invalid configuration for device 4 Error When Cloning or vMotion a Virtual Machine
When performing vMotion on a Virtual Machine (VM) or a template on vDS (virtual distributed switch) configuration, you may come across this error: Invalid configuration for Device ‘4’ I experienced this error in my lab over the weekend and removing the VM from the vDS portgroup fixed the issue. According to VMware, the cause of… Continue reading Invalid configuration for device 4 Error When Cloning or vMotion a Virtual Machine
VMware vConverter: A fatal error occurred Message
While I was trying to convert an existing Virtual Machine (VM), I experienced a small issue with the vConverter wizard. If you try to convert server using VMware vCenter vConverter, you may experience an error like this: A fatal error occurred. The reason for this might be a Network connection failure. The wizard will close… Continue reading VMware vConverter: A fatal error occurred Message
vSphere PowerCLI: Creating and Managing Aliases
Are you using PowerCLI to automate or perform daily administrative tasks in your virtual infrastructure? VMware vSphere PowerCLI is snapin module for Microsoft PowerShell command-shell and scripting language which you often see installed on latest Microsoft Operating Systems. PowerCLI comes with powerful feature to create and manage aliases for built-in cmdlets for creating and managing… Continue reading vSphere PowerCLI: Creating and Managing Aliases
How to use VMware PowerCLI to get All VM Mac Addresses?
Just a quick how-to on using VMware PowerCLI to get All Virtual Machine (VM) MAC addresses, host VM is registered to and VM name. I was trying to track down a VM and did not want to go through 100 VMs just to find out what MAC address its NICs had. I knew the IP… Continue reading How to use VMware PowerCLI to get All VM Mac Addresses?