When carrying out maintenance on Vcenter it is important to disable Enable Host Monitoring. You can also configure advanced isolation response address's. for more information, please see VMware's support document : http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/documentLinkInt.do?micrositeID=&popup=true&languageId=&externalID=2033250
After installing Vcenter on a server 2012 I received the following message: To fix this you will need to edit the registry: \System\CurrentControlSet\Services\vpxd and the Open the DependOnService key and remove ProtectedStorage from the list Remove the ProtectedStorage from the list , click ok and exit out of the registry. Reboot the server and Vcenter... Continue Reading →
I recently found a replacement DRS script using PowerCLI from Scott Warren's Blog http://www.scottwarren.info/2011/03/24/scripting-a-drs-replacement-using-powercli/ I wanted to run this as a daily task to ensure that my standard edition ESX cluster was load balanced. Firstly I needed to create the folders on the Vcenter server to store the scripts and log files. In the root directory C: I created two folders VMware... Continue Reading →
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