While doing a new install of VMware vCenter Server I ran into the following error:
Setup cannot create vCenter Server Directory Services instance. Error 28038
This error is caused by the fact that the “Network Service” does not have enough permissions on the root of the drive you’re installing vCenter on. The solution is pretty straight forward [...]
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Setup cannot create vCenter Server Directory Services instance. Error 28038
January 22nd, 2010
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Issue with Update 1 and COS Agents
November 26th, 2009
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I wrote this article after the KB was release but forgot to click “publish”. Those planning to upgrade their vSphere environment to Update 1 please read the following:
KB Article 1016070
Issue
Upgrading ESX 4.0 to 4.0 U1 fails or times out and rebooting the host results in a purple diagnostic screen
Who is affected
Customers using VMware vSphere 4 [...]
Failed to install the VC agent service
May 18th, 2009
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I just ran into the following issue when I upgraded the customers vCenter Server to 2.5 U4: “”Failed to install the VC agent service” Error Message Appears after VirtualCenter Upgrade”. None of the 3.0.x hosts would connect anymore. Of course the knowledge base provided a simple solution for this known issue.
Valuable KB articles
May 2nd, 2009
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Just noticed the highly valuable KB articles. I think the title says more than enough:
Adding a static route to ESX host for extra service console
Identifying Symmetrix devices using the esxcfg-mpath and symdev commands
The first one will come in handywhen you added a secondary service console and the second one will come in handy when you [...]
Two new patches for ESX(i) 3.5
March 22nd, 2009
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VMware released two patches on the 20th of March. Both patches are related to an issue with the Broadcom bnx2x driver. If you are running on hardware with a Broadcom NetXtreme II 57710, 57711, or 57711E NICs be sure to look into the patches below:
ESX350-200903412-BG – PATCH – KB 1009232 – General
Updates Kernel Source and [...]
VCB and Diskeeper
March 5th, 2009
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I just noticed this new KB article:
Diskeeper is a 3rd party defragmentation product that has the ability to defragment unmounted NTFS volumes that are presented to the VMware Consolidated Backup proxy. This means that it can defragment RDM LUNs. Unfortunately, this creates the possibility of inconsistencies in the file system if there is a virtual [...]
vCenter tasks time-out or ESX disconnects?
February 5th, 2009
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I just received an email from a fellow consultant about a customer which had vCenter tasks time-out every once in a while. At times also ESX hosts got disconnected for no apparent reason at all. He discovered the following article by Richard Blythe aka VMware Wolf: ESX disconnects randomly or when doing VI client tasks [...]
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