Entries by Daniël de Zoete

vROPS Admin Lockout

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When logging in at the administrative page of vRealize Operations Manager (https://fqdn/admin) after a long time, it can happen that you will get an error message stating “Incorrect User name/Password”. You are sure that you entered your credentials correct, but you won’t get past the error message. There are three possible reasons for this problem: […]

VCSA Backup Bug

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If you want to make backup of the vCenter Server Appliance, there are multiple options to choose from. One of these is the manual method by which you login to the VAMI of the VCSA and select Backup in at the Summary page. You’ll get a lot of different options in which way you want […]

VRA / VRO Unexpected status code: 503

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When using a vRealize Automation appliance with integrated vRealize Orchestrator, it can sometimes happen that the orchestrator is not responding well to the automation server. We encountered this problem when we updated vCenter and had to reboot the automation servers. After rebooting the vRealize Automation appliance, the IaaS host and the Powershell host, we received […]

Zero Client details not visible in Teradici MC

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Not that long ago Teradici released the latest version of their PCoIP Management Console. I’m talking ofcourse about version 19.11.1. Unfortunately after updating our management console, I came across a problem where the details of the Zero Clients were no longer visible in the management console. So I contacted tech support and eventually they said […]

Change DNS server on vLCM Appliance

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Changing the DNS server configuration on your servers is not a task you do on a daily basis. But when you have to, it is not always a straight forward action, as I experienced when trying to change the DNS server on the VMware Life Cycle Manager Appliance. Changing the DNS configuration under Windows is […]

VRA remove waiting on retry status

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From time to time you’ll see machines in vRA that have the status “On (Reconfigure failed, waiting to retry)”. In some cases this status will never go away, because in reality the retry is already done and everything went well but the status in vRA still says “Waiting for retry”. The problem with a “Waiting […]

Horizon View BLAST error in Chrome browser

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We did an update of our Horizon View environment from version 7.4 to version 7.5.1. After the update we noticed something strange. Everything was working except for the BLAST client on the Chrome browser. Other browsers didn’t give errors and worked, but Chrome threw the error: “Failed to connect to the Connection Server”. After some […]

Bring Your Own Cloud

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In the category “Sumble Upon”, I came across a nice piece of software which let you forget about Dropbox, SkyDrive, GDrive, etc. Because now you can build your storage-cloud on premises. Nowadays there is a proliferation of providers, if you want some storage in the cloud to store your photos, videos, documents, etc. And as […]

VMware percentages for vMotion, Storage vMotion and P2V

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We all know the little blue bar in VMware that tells us the progress of an action. But what does the percentages mean and what is the problem when the action fails at a certain percentage? To make this all a little more clear, I made a list of the stages and there respectively definition. […]

Shortcuts in Windows 8

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Everybody knows some shortcuts in Windows, like CTRL+C and CTRL+V to copy and paste. Some people also know shortcuts regarding the windows shell, like Windowskey+E to open the explorer and CTRL+SHIFT+ESC to open the taskmanager. Many of this shortcuts stay the same in every version of Windows and sometime new shortcuts are added. With the […]