Category Archives: VMware

Understanding VMware HA Admission Control.

Recently I have been asked by my customers and also blog readers 🙂 about VMware HA Admission Control.  As this topic is often misunderstood, this post covers some information about this important feature of VMware vSphere HA. In this post you will find answers for the following questions: What is Admission Control? What is and how to check… Read More »

Error connecting to /bin/vmx process and cannot open a local pipe to local virtual machine

Today, when I wanted to power one my virtual machine, I got the following error: An error was received from the ESX host while powering on MK_SIM. Connection error while establishing connection (11): Error connecting to /bin/vmx process. Cannot open a local pipe to local virtual machine '/vmfs/volumes/.... Under investigating I realized that there was a VM process… Read More »