During a deployment of several ESXi hosts at a customer, I noticed that the new hosts were disconnecting every few minutes. When I checked the event error, it showed a lot of different errors and events, mostly about disconnection errors and connection failures. Which I found weird. Looking closer, the error message reads: “agent unable …read more →
I recently had a problem that one of my vCenters (vCSA 6.5) was constantly logging off any kind of user after a few minutes. Which would end up with the following error output: “Your vsphere Client session is no longer authenticated Please login again”. This even happend after 2 minutes whenever I was logged in. …read more →
Sometimes, you want to have more info then the GUI shows you, or you want to create or change configuration on loads of different servers, and clicking is not the fastest way. Command line and scripting tools always have been a nice way to automate things or to retrieve valuable information that can’t be found …read more →
if you came across this post then you’ll probably had the problem that the vCenter installation became stuck around the 80%, with the text “Installing RPM This may take several minutes…”. Unfortunately, this doesn’t take minutes but several hours until it figures out that it got an issue and it just stops. Like this screen: …read more →
Intro As an IT guy, I have started to get a little bit of my own personal lab, and when sometimes something breaks, I always try to see it as a fun way to gain some experience and put on my troubleshooting hat. The fun stops however, when you know that you might possibly lost …read more →
