Category: VMware

The host bus adapter is not associated with a vmknic. To configure targets the adapter should be associated with a vmknic. Refer to the VMware documentation to associate the adapter with a vmknic.

This warning indicated that you probably have Broadcom NIC in your ESX host with TOE and you haven’t assigned a vmknic to the iSCSI vmhba. To assign a vmnic to a vmhba do the following: Go to the COS of you ESX host. If you’re using ESXi you may have to enable Remote Tech Support […]

Tuesday February 22nd, 2011 in VMware | No Comments »

VCAP4-DCA Certification

This morning I’ve received a pleasant email from VMware. The subject was: Your VCAP4-DCA Score Report And I’m excited to say that I passed the VCAP4-DCA exam. I’ve got 382 point of the 500 where 300 point are necessary to pass the exam. How did I prepare for this exam: The book Mastering VMware vSphere […]

Tuesday January 25th, 2011 in VMware | No Comments »

Enter Maintenance mode: Operation Time out

I’ve got this question a couple of time through email and in my training. Let me explain the error (in my case because there can be multiple causes). A while ago I giving a VMware course where I had 2 ESX host available. Both host where member of a HA en DRS cluster. When I […]

Thursday January 6th, 2011 in VMware | No Comments »

VMware Update Manager (VUM) on a 64bits OS

I Googled for this article many time and I was wondering why I haven’t made a post about this on my blog for my own documentation. When you want to install VUM on a 64bits OS for example Windows 2008 R2 you need to create a 32bit odbc database connection because VUM is still 32bit. […]

Thursday December 30th, 2010 in VMware | No Comments »

Apache with iPrint won’t start even if CUPS is disabled with VMware Tools

A while ago I wrote a post about that the installation of the VMware tools enable the start of Cups at boot time. The was easy to fix by disabling the start of Cups at boot time with the insserv -r /etc/init.d/cups or chkconfig cups off command. While upgrading a vSphere ESX4.0 to 4.1 site […]

Tuesday December 28th, 2010 in Novell, VMware | No Comments »