Last week my user account was constantly locked out after 4hrs. I had just changed my password and I immediately guessed there most be some service somewhere for which I had used my account, but where. First I searched through the Active Directory and did indeed find the account lock events, but they only told […]
Datacenter Migration with VEEAM Backup & Replication and PowerShell
For new customers we often need to migrate their virtual machines from their datacenter into our datacenter. We use VEEAM Backup & Replication for this because it offers us the ability to pre-sync the VMs a few days before the migration and on the day of the migration it self, the last data sync is […]
vCenter appliance database issue
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 […]