It’s been a while since my last post. I got an exciting issue a few days ago. I was trying to log in to a vCenter Server in Chrome. I can see the login screen and enter the credential. However, I was not able to get into the main page. vSphere Web Client was stuck … Read more
You may see vpxd.stats.maxQueryMetrics relevant error when retrieving performance data of ESXi hosts, virtual machines, or other entities on vCenter Server by PowerCLI. The full error message: This operation is restricted by the administrator – ‘vpxd.stats.maxQueryMetrics’. Contact your system administrator VMware published a KB about how to fix that. Please notice that the mentioned vCenter … Read more
My home lab virtual machines are connected on private network 192.168.1.x. All internet traffic goes to a gateway server and is forwarded over the internet network adapter. The gateway server is a DHCP server also to assign IP addresses to my lab devices. The benefit to use my own DHCP server is I can control … Read more
I installed a macOS virtual machine on VMware Fusion. As you may know, the installation time is super long. It took me about 1 hour to complete the installation. To save recovery time in case my computer OS needs to be re-installed. I exported the virtual machine to an OVA file to another partition. However, … Read more
You may need to access the internet with a VPN for privacy or performance. The most popular VPN solution is Shadowsocks. If you are an IT Pro, you may face a similar issue that I’m facing: How does VM share host VPN connection? My home lab is running on top of VMware Workstation on a … Read more
It’s useful to get email notification when there is an alarm raised in vCenter Server. To configure the function. You need a valid SMTP server. And configure the SMTP server on vCenter Server. If there is a problem that vCenter Server is not sending email alerts. We need to isolate is it a vCenter Server … Read more
I just upgraded a testing machine to Windows 10 1909. And installed VMware Workstation 15 latest version on the testing machine. Somehow the mouse jumps around in VMware Workstation when the mouse pointer is grabbed by a VM. This is very annoying. I only observed this issue when run VMware Workstation in remote desktop session. … Read more
This guide will show you some tips of how to troubleshooting MAC address conflicts on ESXi and Cisco UCS level.
Quick post. You may see “Session data container is missing. It must’ve been destroyed, probably due to logout.” after rebooting a new joined domain vCenter PSC server. It usually occurs when you login to PSC web client. The reason is stale cookies on client browser. Clean up cookies will fix the issue.
This is my 7th time been VMworld. It’s a great IT conference. Meet genius people, experience latest technologies, discuss with experts, and listen to other’s ideas. Technology is changing really fast. I still remember VMworld was talking about ‘be pioneers’ few years ago. But now we have moved to cloud world. ‘Virtualization’ was the big … Read more
