I was doing some troubleshooting in my Hyper-V cluster, and I had to remove a node from the Cluster and re-add it. While doing this, I came up with an error saying “The Computer “Clusternode.Domain” is joined to a cluster”, Here, “Clusternode” is my node name and “Domain” is my domain name. When I was doing this, […]
Cluster transition states during Cluster OS Rolling Upgrade To ensure uninterrupted operation of cluster workloads during the Cluster OS Rolling Upgrade process, a technique is employed whereby a cluster workload is moved from a node running an older version of Windows Server to a node running a newer version. This is achieved through the utilization […]
Hyper-V users, there isn’t an easy way like what VMware is offering, however the following 5 ways should solve your problems. Network File Sharing – Share files on a network like you usually do… 1. On the virtual machine, create a folder on Desktop or any directory you preferred and give it a name. 2. […]
Error: Unable to create snapshot: Operation failed because file already exists or Cannot complete the operation because the file or folder [DatastoreName] VMname/VMname.vmx already exists OR when trying to VMotion you get Error: Migrate virtual machine MY-DC A general system error occurred: Source detected that destination failed to resume. ESX/ESXi/vCenter Server 4.0 vSphere Client, shows an error […]
To uninstall VMware Tools in Windows XP: Click Start > Control Panel. Open Add/Remove Programs. From the list of installed software, select VMware Tools. Click Remove. When prompted, click Yes to restart Windows. Once restarted, open My Computer and navigate to C:\Program Files and remove the VMware folder if it exists. To uninstall VMware Tools […]
You try to install the Hyper-V Integration Services (Drivers) in a VM with Windows 2003 and you get the following error: “An error has occurred: Internal Error“ No errors in the event log we decided to start by installing the latest updates for that VM. Unfortunately not all updates were able to install properly, in […]
First find Dead Path Link esxcfg-mpath -L | more List which drive are used by server and naa.xx nubmer. esxcfg-scsidevs –vmfs Rescan vmhba in my case vmhba37 esxcfg-rescan vmhba37 — To shutdown the VM vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms | grep <vm name> vim-cmd vmsvc/power.getstate <vmid> vim-cmd vmsvc/power.off <vmid> — List all world id vm-support -x To Kill […]
Configuring Windows Server 2012 NIC Teaming to a Hyper-V Virtual Machine NIC teaming is a new feature of Windows Server 2012, which allows multiple network adapters to be placed into a team for the purpose of providing network fault tolerance and continuous availability. When one of the network adapters fail, the other one takes over […]
Powering off the virtual machine To determine if you must use the command line, attempt to power off the virtual machine: Connect VMware Infrastructure/vSphere Client to the vCenter Server. Right-click the virtual machine and click Power off. Connect vSphere Client directly to the ESX host. Right-click the virtual machine and click Power off. If this does not […]