Recently I had an issue in my homelab environment. Because of some power outages, my vCenter Appliance hadn’t been shutdown correctly and now vCenter didn’t start correctly anymore. After some searching I found that the database could not be loaded. In the VMware KBs I couldn’t find anything that fixes the start up of the […]
VIB requires VSAN 6.0.0-2.34 but the requirement cannot be satisfied within the ImageProfile
Today I tried to upgrade my ESXi hosts to ESXi 6.0 Update 2. Since it is just a home lab booted from USB and I don’t use update manager, the easiest way for me is to update using the downloaded ZIP bundle. In my SSH session I ran: esxcli software vib update –depot=/vmfs/volumes/089a9186-25ef0236/iso/update-from-esxi6.0-6.0_update02.zip But I […]
Authentication server returned unexpected error: ns0:RequestFailed
Was fighting a strange logon issue with vSphere 5.5 SSO. After configuring SSO against Active Directory and testing logins with the temporary user account handed to me by the customer, all was fine. But when I had the customer test with their own account, he couldn’t login and received the following message through the vSphere […]
Cisco UCS firmware update bug
Just ran into a Cisco UCS bug. When upgrading the UCS firmware of your environment, some B200M4 blades may reboot spontaniously. I won’t tell you how I found out, but be sure to read this article: Cisco Bug: CSCut61527 – B200M4 could reboot on shallow_chkpt when BMC returns invalid FRU data. https://tools.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCut61527 Affected firmware: 2.2(3) and 2.2(3a)A […]
Wishlist: KB article with Log Insight queries
With VMware Log Insight you can create great queries. For some environments we have known bugs and since we can’t always update as fast as we would like, I’ve built some simple queries to alert me whenever the bug is more likely to kick in. For example, I have a query that warns me by e-mail […]