In this blog post, I am going to break down a PowerShell code I have created (with help from some colleagues). The functions of this PowerShell code are; Present a GUI form to the end user Connect to a vCenter Select the virtual machine to be cloned Select the datastore the new VM is to … Continue reading PowerCLI with a GUI – Clone a machine, add DHCP Reservations, alter CPUID
Blog post born from a VMUG Presentation Mid Feb, one of the London VMUG leaders posted on twitter, looking for someone to present on the subject of “upgrading from vSphere 5.5 to vSphere 6.5”. Anyone out there done/doing vSphere 5.5 to 6x upgrade? and willing to do a pres at March 22nd #LonVMUG ? DM … Continue reading Upgrading VMware vSphere 5.5 to vSphere 6.5 (VMUG Presentation)
A nice and simple one, the supplied system name (which is the FQDN of the VCSA) is invalid. This is because when deploying a new VCSA from scratch, your DNS records should already be created, as the new ISO based installer for the appliance runs a number of scripts to setup vCenter services and … Continue reading Deploying VCSA 6.0 fails with supplied system name is invalid
On a Server 2008 R2 machine, I had an issue demoting from being a Domain Controller, after moving the FSMO roles onto a new machine. This was after a second domain controller died. I am not sure of the previous history of where the FSMO roles were for this client. Two new DC’s were created … Continue reading DCPromo Fails – The directory service is missing mandatory configuration information
I encountered this issue on a brand new Veeam installation the other day. When running a test backup job. “Error: NFC storage connection is unavailable, Storage: [stg-datastore-(Number),nfchost-host-(Number),conn:(ServerName)”