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Unable To Connect To The MKS: The Operation Is Not Allowed In The Current State July 1, 2014

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Today we are running a VMware Troubleshooting workshop and one of the delegates came across the following error when trying to open a VM console through the vSphere Client and also the Web Client. This was the case with all VMs.

UNABLE TO CONNECT TO THE MKS: THE OPERATION IS NOT ALLOWED IN THE CURRENT STATE

Here are our solutions to the issue

  1. We noted down the Datastore for the VM and then removed the VM from the Inventory in the vSphere Client. We then browsed to the datastore and added the VM back to the inventory by Right-Clicking on the .VMX file. However with quite a few VMs, this may take a while.
  2. We rebooted the ESXi host, all VMs then came back working (yes a bit extreme, but it did the job, thank you vMotion, if live environment possibly done with no downtime).

 

 

VMware web Client reports Empty Inventory May 6, 2014

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Today I’ve been playing with a course build for the VMware Troubleshooting 5.5 workshop

I got to the 3rd lab, this lab involves me using the Web Client to connect to my vCenter and then make some changes to my environment and then use the log files to verify the changes.

The client reported Empty Inventory

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Then I checked the services and found that the VMware vCenter Inventory Service was started, so I gave the VMware vCenter Inventory Service a restart and all was good with the world.

It’d be boring if everything worked first time.

 

 

VMware vSphere: Skills for Operators [V5.5] March 19, 2014

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The curriculum of new VMware vSphere 5.5 courses available from VMware is increasing at a rapid rate.

VMware had just released the new VMware vSphere: Skills for Operators [V5.5] is a two-day technical classroom training course designed to help operators and administrators create and manage virtual machines.For more information visit the VMware Education site at the following link.

VMware vSphere: Skills for Operators [V5.5]

VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting Workshop [V5.5] March 19, 2014

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The curriculum of new VMware vSphere 5.5 courses available from VMware is increasing at a rapid rate.

VMware had just released the new VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting Workshop [V5.5], is a 5-day hands-on training workshop providing you advanced knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in troubleshooting the VMware vSphere® environment.

For more information visit the VMware Education site at the following link.

VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting Workshop [V5.5]

On Demand Classroom for VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.5] March 18, 2014

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VMware have again expanded their list of On-Demand training with the introduction of the Install, Configure and Manage 5.5 course.

These on-demand courses are useful for the busy VMware professional who doesn’t have time to take a week out of work in order to sit on the excellent instructor lead classes in Newcastle upon Tyne (oh, did I mention I was a VMware Instructor?)

And here are the details.

Robust self-paced training is now available for VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.5]. The avatar instructor leads you through course materials where you practice the 24 course-related labs over a 90-day period. It is an excellent way to learn from anywhere and at your own pace. Sign up for On Demand Classroom for VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.5] today or see all the courses available in the On Demand Classroom format.

For information regarding the course, visit VMware Education at the following website.

VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.5].

 

VMware vSphere: Fast Track [5.5] training now released March 15, 2014

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As you may or may not be aware, VMware now have their VMware vSphere 5.5 product on General release.

VMware have just released an updated version of their Fast Track course entitled.

VMware vSphere: Fast Track [V5.5]

This intensive, extended-hours training course focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere® 5.5. This course combines the content of the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage course with advanced tasks and skills for configuring a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure. The course is based on VMware® ESXi™ 5.5 and VMware® vCenter Server™ 5.5. Completion of this course satisfies the prerequisite for taking the VMware® Certified Professional 5 exam.

For more information on the course visit the following website.

VMware education, VMware vSphere: Fast Track [v5.5]

 

Upgrading VM to hardare version 10 with vSphere webclient March 10, 2014

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Today we’ve been looking at the web client in VMware vSphere 5.5.

One of the labs today was creating a VM in the traditional VMware vSphere client, the issue with this way of creating a VM, is that the vSphere client will only allow us to create the VM up to hardware version 8, but vSphere 5.5 supports up to Hardware version 10.

We now have a VM that is hardware version 8, in order to upgrade to hardware version 10, we use the vSphere 5.5 web client.

The process is as follows.

  1. Power down the VM to be upgraded.
  2. Right click the VM and click Edit Settings
  3. Click the arrow next to Upgrade to expand the upgrade properties.
  4. Select Schedule VM Compatibility Upgrade
  5. Ensure that compatible reads ESXi 5.5 and later
  6. Click OK
  7. Power on VM.

Also note that the above can be scheduled to upgrade during VM Power cycle if you don’t want to power down the VM at this point.

I’ve also produced a little demo video on my Youtube channel

Setting DNS and Routing IP settings in the vSphere 5.5 webclient March 9, 2014

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I’ve just connected my two ESXi hosts to my VMware vCenter Server, I then accessed the webclient and setup my DNS and Routing settings.

I expected the setting to be accessed as follows.

Hosts and Clusters > Highlight Host > select Settings

This however is not the case.

Instead

Hosts and Clusters > Highlight Host > Select Networking > Highlight TCP/IP Configuration > Edit

I suppose ‘yes’ that’s where it should be.

I’ve produced a little video, available on my Youtube channel

 

 

vCenter Server Appliance 5.5 root account locked out after password expiration March 9, 2014

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I’m teaching a vSphere 5.5 Install, Configure and Manage course next week and as part of my prep I just like to make sure that all is ready to go for Monday morning.

One of the snags I came up against was the inability to login to the vCenter appliance, I checked my passwords, but still no successful login.

‘Hang on.’ I thought. ‘SSO has a 90 limit for passwords.’ That was indeed the case.

I found this really handy KB document and following the steps have fixed the issue.

vCenter Server Appliance 5.5 root account locked out after password expiration (2069041)

 

 

VMware Virtual SAN: Deploy and Manage Course January 16, 2014

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On the VMware 5.5 courses we talk about the new VMware Virtual SAN technology, generally this topic proves to be quite popular and I get asked where delegates can get more information.

A really good resource is VMware’s Hands on Labs site. This site allows you to play with VMware technologies via some pretty decent Labs.

http://labs.hol.vmware.com and select the vSAN lab.

Also check out VMware’s Storage Blog.

http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/storage

Finally and most relevant to me as a VMware Certified Instructor, VMware have released a 2 day VMware Virtual SAN: Deploy and Manage course.

The course covers the following.

Course Objectives

 

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

Define the key components of a software-defined data center

 

  • Identify benefits of software-defined storage solutions
  • Compare and contrast disk types and storage technologies
  • Explain file, block, and object-oriented storage
  • Identify Virtual SAN requirements, use cases, and architecture components
  • Plan and design a Virtual SAN deployment
  • Configure Virtual SAN clusters
  • Identify benefits of storage policy-based management
  • Scale a Virtual SAN deployment based on storage needs
  • Monitor Virtual SAN
  • Troubleshoot Virtual SAN
  • Identify the integration of Virtual SAN with the VMware product portfolio

 

For more information check out the following web site

 

VMware Virtual SAN: Deploy and Manage