When converting a physical Linux server using VMware Converter Standalone the following error message might be displayed if you're using distributed portgroups:

1A general system error occured: failed to poweron vm

I found a hint that indicated that the amount of used vCPUs or cores exceeds the license limit of the …

It is possible that a VM is not responding any more - mostly it's a simple solution to restart the appropriate VM.

Under rare circumstances it is possible that this restart process isn't passing through. An indicator for this issue is that the process (which normally only takes a couple of seconds) needs multiple …

VMware released a new version of the famous ESXi Hypervisor one month ago.

This tops VMware's portfolio off after the products Fusion, Player and Workstation already were updated in september.

Some technichal enhancements of the new version:

• dropped 32 GB host memory limitation - (a minimum of 4 GB memory is required …

If you're having issues with configuring Active Directory authentification in VMware vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) 5.5 you might want to have a look at the following log file: /var/log/vmware/vpx/vpxd_cfg.log

Ideally access this file using tail -f before saving the Active Directory configuration to see error messages …

While creating a VMFS storage I received the following error yesterday:

1Call "HostDatastoreSystem.QueryVmfsDatastoreCreateOptions" for object "ha-datastoresystem" on ESXi "xxx.xxx.xxx.xx" failed.

First I thought the freshly created logical drive on my HP RAID contorller had a failure - but this …

Every VMware administration knows the following issue - the cluster needs to patched and so the particular nodes need to be rebooted. Fortunately this doesn't bother the users working on the farm becuase the virtual machines can be moved "online" between the cluster nodes.

There might be a little show stopper …