Deleting the datastore where a content library is hosted is probably not the best idea but … yes stupid error and now what. If you are not faint of heart (and now how to take a snapshot), you can rectify this. You should contact GSS as there is not documented solution and this might break. Take a snapshot and verify if …
Where do I start troubleshooting? journalctl -xb File System Check Other volumes Reboot Remark Due to a power failure of the storage where the vCenter Server Appliance resides, the VCSA does not boot. Connecting to the console shows the following output: When you see this screen, none of the services are started as the …
This post is not as a end-to-end upgrade guide but a methodology guide. Everything is more or less straight forward if one uses the correct methodology. As this is a home lab I have chosen not to add complexity by adding additional nodes to the various components for High Availability but depend on vSphere HA. This …
Step 1 : Running the jar Step 2 : Configuration Step 3 : Migration Issues Storage vMotion? Target Datastore: Shared datastore (same as source) Conclusion Whilst upgrading the home lab I also decided to rebuild from scratch. There were some challenges to overcome because I have running VMs I don’t want to shut while …
I decided to upgrade the vCenter Server Appliance from 6.5 U2 to 6.7 though it is not supported, see VMware KB. As this is not supported you will NOT want go ahead with this in a production environment. Maybe I will have regrets later on too … but this is my lab environment so the alternative is to redeploy a new VCSA. …
I had downtime in my lab due to an power failure which resulted in a boot failure of my VCSA 6.5 appliance. Looking on the console showed me a "[FAILED] Failed to start File System Check on /dev/dis...uuid/uuid. See 'systemctl status system-fsck-root.service' for details." message. Therefor it booted into …