usb 2-2 : resumed, xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: clear USB_PORT_FEAT_SUSPEND, <6>usb 2-2: suspended Today I was able to help one of my colleagues to troubleshoot his ESXi level issue. What he wanted to do is connect his dongle to one of his VMs to get internet access through that dongle. So he has tried to connect a […]
Networking troubleshooting with VMware side and Network layer
#VMware #vSphereNetworking #DVS #NICTeaming #CLI Today I was asked by friend about the pinging issue in his vSphere environment. After the discussion i had with him I decided to visit the site and check what was the reason behind this case. I will briefly summarize the issue was. They have two ESXi servers in their […]
vMotion issue stucks at 14% operation timed out
ESXi 5.5 / vCenter 5.5 Today I was asked to put one host in maintained mode and shutdown the ESXi server. Prior to this I had to relocate the VMs in to different ESXi servers in same cluster. After the checking the DRS setting, I just put server in maintained mode. Most of the VMs […]
Centos 5 root Password break during the file system unexpected inconsistency.
Today we had an issue with one of our database servers hosted in a VMware cluster. Database (mysql) is running on Centos 5 operating system. We were asked to check the VM due to application failure. I was able to see the below error in the VM console. Seems it had been hanged because of […]
Cannot create Tags in vCenter 6.7
Operation Failed! (vmodl.fault.SystemError) { faultCause = null, faultMessage = null, reason = invalid fault } vCenter version 6.7.0 build-17137327 Today I had an issue with one of our vCenters when creating the vSphere tag. Suddenly it pops up below the error message. Try different browsers, different logins (SSO Admin ) etc. but no luck This […]
vCenter Standalone converter installation (P2V) failed in windows server 2003
Error 1920.Service VMware vCenter Converter Standalone Server (vmware-converter-server) failed to start. Verify that you have sufficient privileges to start system services. Today I had a chance to work on the p2v conversion after a long time. This is to migrate windows server 2003 physical server to VMware VM. I downloaded the vCenter converter 6.2 and […]