VMware: Unable to remove an inaccessible NFS datastore
The backend storage volume corresponding to the datastore has been removed and the datastore appears as Inactive, when I want...
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VMware: Detach unmounted datastores with PowerCLI
Last week I had some issues with unmounting some old datastores in a vSphere 5.5 environment. In the GUI it...
VMware: System logs on host [hostname] are stored on non-persistent storage
Last week I installed some new vSphere hosts with flash disk storage. Some hosts has a yellow caution icon and...
VMware: The number of heartbeat datastores for host is 0
Today I added some vSphere 5.0 u1 hosts in a new created cluster, the SAN will be delivered next week...
VMware: Configure NetApp NFS datastore(s) Advanced parameters with PowerCLI
The settings that NetApp recommends (across all ESX hosts) are: - NFS.HeartbeatFrequency(NFS.HeartbeatDelta in vSphere) = 12 - NFS.HeartbeatTimeout = 5...
VMware: The datastore “name” is connected to one or more pre-4.1 hosts that do not support Storage I/O Control
Last week I was configuring some new vSphere 5.1 (Enterprise) hosts in a dedicated cluster and created some VMFS 5.58...
VMware: Upload local files to datastore with PowerCLI
I'm upgrading some hosts in my lab with vSphere 5 patch 1, I need to upload the zip packages from...
VMware: Call "HostDatastoreSystem.QueryVmfsDatastoreCreateOptions" for object "ha-datastoresystem" on ESXi "SERVERNAME" failed.
After I placed two new 146 GB SAS hard disks to an ESXi 4.1 host, configured a new array, try...
VMware: List VMFS version and blocksize of all datastores with PowerCLI
For a SAN to SAN migration I need to list all our datastores and blocksizes, It couldn't be easier to...