I kept running into the error whilst running PowerCLI on Ubuntu. After wracking my brains, I realised that the issue is DNS, my Ubuntu box couldn’t resolve the FQDN for the ESXi host, which is a mandatory parameter for the Import-vApp command.
Import-VApp Name or service not known
Dean
When vSphere 7.0 (and therefore vCenter 7.0) went GA, a number of customers were hit with a very important change;
Since the GA, after customer feedback, the vCenter 7.0 release notes have been updated and I’m happy to report that Image based backups are still supported.
However, note that this method is now deprecated and will not be supported in a future release.
My advice is to start planning your move to using the native backup capabilities within the vCenter appliance itself, and for further information please see the following resources;
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The Issue
When connecting my newly deployed instance of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure, I keep hitting the same error message after authenticating my account with Microsoft.
Error: Unable to check required permissions. This might be a problem in Microsoft Azure. Please wait and continue with the wizard later.
Simple enough message, I don’t have the right permissions, yet I knew on my test tenant I was a global admin, (and the only user configured in this tenant) so why was I seeing this error?
The cause
When I downloaded the logs, I found the following, it indicated that my account is connected to two tennants, both of the same name “Default Directory” to make things confusing, and the error was happening on the permissions check with the tenant.
Continue reading Veeam Backup for Azure – Unable to check required permissions.
My customer asked me how to display the VLAN ID for a virtual machine in vROPs.
The short answer is, due to the VLAN ID only being available from the Distributed switch adapter, its not simple to display this in a single list view.
So after some thinking around this, I came up with the following simple dashboard which was edited from the default “Distributed Switch Configuration” dashboard.
The dashboard is simple, and shows a selectable list of port groups, which then will refresh the virtual machine list, so you can see which virtual machines are attached to that port group.
You can download the dashboard and edited view here:
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I presented on the first ever virtual London VMUG event of which you can see the recording below, and it is accompanied by this blog post;
You can find the full YouTube playlist for the event here.
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