Problem: I recently had an issue powering on a VMware guest after a HA problem with one of my host, when I attempted to power on the guest I received the message “Failed to lock the file” in vCentre. Within …
Problem: I just tried to install VMware vCenter 6 Update 1 on a lab server, however my lab server barely failed the minimum requirements for RAM. VMware vCenter Server detected 8005MB of memory. 8176MB of memory is required for the …
Problem – Failed to install hcmon driver: While trying to install VMware’s VMRC on Microsoft Windows 10 the installation fails with error “Failed to install hcmon driver” In my case I was trying to install VMRC version 7.0.1-2508353 Solution: The …
Problem – VMware Unable to access file since it is locked I recently had a problem where the backup of one of my VMware vSphere Guest servers created a 400Gb snapshot and filled up the datastore. After deleting the offending snapshot VMware informed …
Problem VMware: The parent virtual disk has been modified since the child was created. The content ID of the parent virtual disk does not match the corresponding parent content ID in the child After my weekend backups I was greeted …
Recently I needed to install Citrix Web Interface 5.4 and I wanted to use Network Load Balancing on top of VMware vSphere. The installation are configuration went fine however I could not ping the cluster IP from a client machine but …
Problem: Recently I had a need to upgrade our VMware vCenter server from 4.0 to 4.1 and also as the current server was on a 32-bit OS so I also needed to migrate to a new server. I started following …