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Our environment is: vCenter 6.5 U1g (8024368) running on a Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard VM (we’re moving to an appliance once we go 6.7) vSphere 5.5 7504623, 8 node cluster Since upgrading to the latest vCenter every new VM we clone into our production cluster reports “The virtual machine failed to become vSphere HA Protected … Read more
Just ran into what I think is called the “rainbow screen of death” where a fully functioning RaspberryPi running Raspbian stopped working on me after a reboot. I know my MicroSD card is good quality and I wasn’t mucking with the boot file system before the reboot so it baffled me why things would just … Read more
Update 2018-10-18 – Check out this comment. Looks like a much easier method than my MSI editing one. Sick of the hotfix requirements for NetApp Host Utilities? Me to. On a test/dev server I have I’ve been experimenting with Veeam, iSCSI, ReFS and Server 2016. I wanted to run the NetApp Host Utilities … Read more
We’re backing out of a vCloud provider and trying to drag our VMs back into our local vSphere cluster. I’ve used ovftool to export our VMs from vCloud into OVF templates. I then import the OVF into VMware Workstation 14 and from there drag/drop the VM into our vSphere cluster. There is likely a way … Read more
Update: 2024-03-29 – I was looking at this blog post and noticed the PowerShell script had been mangled when I changed my code block plugin. I believe I’ve corrected the issues but if you run into problems executing the script look for HTML tags like < and replace them with the proper character which would … Read more