Some Tips About Applying Host Profile in vCenter 5.0


- If you received ‘The request failed because the remote server took too long to respond’ when trying to apply the host profile. Try to use PowerCLI to run it, the command line is: C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI> Apply-VMHostProfile myHostName -profile myProfileName - If you have not joined the host into the Active Directory, you … Continue reading Some Tips About Applying Host Profile in vCenter 5.0 →

Reconfigure vSphere HA Host Operation Timed Out


I think it is worth sharing what I learned Today. We found that HA is not functioning on all hosts in a vSphere cluster. Reconfiguring the vSphere HA host always failed with ‘Operation timed out’ error message. I checked the fdm.log on couples servers, and found them all have such message: error 'Election' opID=SWI-cb1a0483] ReadMsg: … Continue reading Reconfigure vSphere HA Host Operation Timed Out →

TSM 6.3: Something You Should Know Before Changing VM Display Name


Please be cautious with changing the Virtual Machine’s display name in vCenter if you are using TSM for VE.  These are something you should be aware of: 1) TSM uses the VM display name as the identity of each target VM. This means if you rename a virtual machine’s display name in vCenter, TSM will … Continue reading TSM 6.3: Something You Should Know Before Changing VM Display Name →

VMware vSphere Health Check


Every VMware administer should have this beautiful tool - VMware vSphere Health Check!! To set it up, you need to: 1) Install vSphere PowerCLI and PowerGUI, and download the Health Check PowerPack file. 2) Run PowerGUI Admin Console and import the Health Check PowerPack file. 3) Add the target vCenter address then click connect. 4) … Continue reading VMware vSphere Health Check →

PowerCLI: Find Orphaned Virtual Machines Location


Very useful PowerCLI script – find the orphaned virtual machines in the VMware cluster. With ‘-delete’ option it will find then delete the orphaned virtual machines. #requires -version 2 function Remove-OrphanedData{<#.SYNOPSIS   Remove orphaned folders and VMDK files.DESCRIPTION   The function searches orphaned folders and VMDK files   on one or more datastores and reports its findings.   Optionally … Continue reading PowerCLI: Find Orphaned Virtual Machines Location →