Wednesday 22 February 2017

VM from template will have the same SID

I was delivering a training and got a question:- Whether SID will remain same when we deploy a VM from template.

I knew the answer but just wanted to verify it.

YES!!  SID will remain same when we deploy a VM from template without sysprep or running customspec manager.

W7-01 is a windows 7 virtual machine.


W7-02 is deployed from template of W7-01 virtual machine.


Friday 17 February 2017

Error Installing ESXi on Dell R720


  • I was working in a datacenter with an administrator and got this error while trying to upgrade ESXi host.





  • Later on did everything and came up with the solution to delete the RAID on which ESXi was installed and re-create the RAID. 
  • Even after re-creating the RAID for ESXi installation it did not work.
  • Later on, I realized to verify that the RAID that we have created was not initialized.
  • Post reinitialization it worked and ESXi was installed.
  • Here are some screenshots of RAID initialization:-

















Saturday 4 February 2017

What will happen if I upgrade my ESXi to 6.5 and add upgraded ESXi to new vCenter Server?

Virtual SAN 6.5

I will be able to see my existing vSAN Datastore, but I will not be able to use it.
As of now, i have created a cluster for virtual SAN. My hosts are just a part of my US Datacenter.


When i tried cloning my slax virtual mahine to this vSAN datastore, it gives me error

A general system error occurred: PBM error occurred during PreCloneCheckCallback: pbm.fault.PBMFault;
No VASA Provider for schema namespace (VSAN) found.