Category: vSphere

Error when browsing or selecting a datastore

Problem When you select and browse a datastore in 5.1 and higher you get the following error message: com.vmware.sps.fault.QsConnectionException If you are not familiar with all the vCenter plug-ins you can login to https://IP-or-FQDN-of-vCenter/mob...

Remove orphaned View replicas

Last time at a customer I saw the following situation in his vSphere/View environment: This situation will happen, when the underlying datastore is deleted and View Composer hasn’t remove all of his replicas properly....

VMFS3HeapSize Problems

A Customer called me yesterday and told me that he had certain problems with his VMFS datastores. He explained the following behavior: Cannot migrate VMs from one host to another host Cannot power on or...

vSphere 5.x Consolidation fails

I got a problem where a VM needs consolidation because of 90 delta files on the datastore. Consolidation is a new feature in vSphere 5.x, which merges all delta file into the base vmdk, althought...

Upgrade to vSphere 5 Update 1 with MSCS

ESXi 5.0 uses a different technique to determine if Raw Device Mapped (RDM) LUNs are used for MSCS cluster devices. During a boot of an ESXi system the storage mid-layer attempts to discover all...