My customer needed to relocate data (generally Virtual Machines) on NetApp storage. Almost relocation was done by Storage vMotion but some VMs could not be migrated: A general system error occurred: The migration has exceeded the maximum switchover time of 100 second(s). ESX has preemptively failed the migration to allow the virtual machine to continue… Read More »
I have got twice the following error in vShield Manager console: Lost communication with ESX module. The first reason for receiving this error can be time mismatch so ensure that the time on the ESX/ESXi hosts is synced with vShield Manager. To configure the NTP Server in vShield Manager: Log in to the vShield Manager… Read More »
Recently, during the VUM 5.5 U2 installation and configuration I have faced again an error when I tried to enable the VUM plugin: There was an error connecting to VMware vSphere Update Manager. Database temporarily unavailable or has network problems. If you check VMware Update Manager release notes for 5.1 (U1 or U2) or 5.5… Read More »