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Experiencing the “Cannot change the host configuration” and or Call “HostDatastoreSystem.QueryVmfsDatastoreCreateOptions” for object “datastoreSystem-xxxx” on vCenter Server error message when trying to add disk storage to your VMware vSphere ESXi host? If so, check out my video below where I…
Razor is a cool new deployment tool for your entire server infrastructure. It’s has been and is still being developed as a joint venture between EMC and Puppetlabs (who also make the amazing open source application automation tool Puppet), with…
When installing a virtualized instance of VMware ESXi 5 on top of a physical ESXi 5 instance you may receive the following warning message: <HARDWARE_VIRTUALIZATION WARNING: Hardware Virtualization is not a feature of the CPU, or is not enabled in…
A TechHead reader recently experienced the following message in VMware vSphere (ESXi) when trying to start a 64-bit VM (Windows 2008 R2) running on their HP Proliant ML110 G5: “This virtual machine is configured for 64-bit guest operating systems”, “However,…
In my vSphere lab environment I like to try and run things as closely as possible to how it would be run in the “real world”. Of course this isn’t always possible due to hardware and budget limitations although there…
When going to deploy a VMware vSphere OVA based vApp package you may receive the following vague error message: “The OVF package is invalid and cannot be deployed” along with “The operation is not supported on the object”. The latter…
During the upgrade or installation process of the VMware vSphere Client you may find yourself presented with the following error message, “Error 1406. Could not write value …”. As with most issues/errors/problems there are a couple of different ways to…
I’ve been using my Intel i7 MacBook Pro daily for work and then during the evening for the past couple of months and have found it, on the whole, pretty good. I bought my MacBook Pro with a 5400rpm SATA…
When running a virtualized instance of ESX/ESXi 4.0 Update 1 from within VMware Fusion or VMware Workstation you may notice the following error message on the front ESX/ESXi screen: “NUMA: 706: Can’t boot system as genuine NUMA. Booting with 1…
From time to time you may have a requirement to rename a VMware ESX host, although this is quite straight forward to do in ESXi via the Direct Console User Interface (DCUI) there are a few more steps involved in…