Login To The Query Service Failed When Search Virtual Machine

You may see following problem if you login vCenter  Server 6.0 by vSphere Client: Login to the query service failed. The server could not interpret the communication from the client. (The remote server returned an error: (500) Internal Server Error.) That’s because “Use Windows session credentials” checkbox is selected. Deselect it and give it a … Read more

Virtual Machine Cannot Get DHCP IP Address

Just a quick post. When virtual machine cannot get DHCP IP address the first thing you want to check is firewall. Whatever Windows firewall or physical firewall. You should make sure UDP port 67 and 68 are not blocked. Otherwise you  will see the virtual machine gets 169.x.x.x IP address only. The two  ports is … Read more

Adobe Flash Player Out of Date on vSphere Web Client

You may see ‘Adobe Flash Player Out of Date’ on Chrome when you open vSphere Web Client. Click the text Chrome will update Flash Player automatically. But in some cases it doesn’t work due to maybe your Chrome is controlled by company policy or internet problem to Adobe.com. I found an article to show how … Read more

Network Latency on Virtual Machine

Slight network latency may cause application problem  on sensitive virtual machines. Even the network responding time is just 3 or 7 ms. There is a way to improve the  stability of responding latency – Enable RSS on NIC. Network traffic is handled by single CPU core when RSS is disabled. Enable it will distribute the … Read more

vRealize Operation Manager Installation Pending on install.sh

If your company implemented firewall and blocked public NTP server, you may see installation of vRealize Operation Manager pending on ./install.sh on console. That’s because the installer tries to negotiate with NTP server www.iana.org. The firewall blocked the traffic. VMware TAM Manager Shan told me  there are two options on firewall to block traffic: REJECT … Read more

ESXi 6.0 and 6.5 hosts no responding issue!

The smartd service  can leads to ESXi 6.0 or 6.5 hosts no responding due to out of memory. I see that issue on ESXi 6.0 U2 and U3 both. I would recommend stay on  ESXi 5.5 U3 at this moment. We do see the issue persist even after stop smartd service. Check out VMware official … Read more

My New Toy Raspberry Pi 3

I own Raspberry Pi 1 and 2 both. I used to do some small projects and learn Python on its. It’s great computer to learn scripting and Linux. But not something can be used in daily based. I was excited when I hear Raspberry Pi foundation released Pi 3. Thanks foundation brought our world a … Read more

vSphere Data Protection将停止更新

VDP在未来的vSphere版本中将不再继续更新。在2022年以前对于现有的VDP客户没有影响。如果客户想迁移到其他备份方案,VMware提供限定时间内的免费迁移至Dell EMC Avamar Virtual Edition的促销。客户依旧可以通过vCenter的存储API把第三方备份解决方案和vCenter整合。 详细资料请参阅问答文件。另外VMware产品生命周期矩阵供你参考。