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VMware vSphere Update Manager service fails

magander — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 09:34:13 +0000

So a few days back i had some problem with the VMware Windows based vSphere Update Manager (VUM) Server that didn’t start after rebooting the virtual machine (VM) where the service runs. All other VMware related services running on the VM started without any problem. vCenter Server (and VUM) version running was 5.5.U1b was running …

vCenter Orchestrator – Unable to run workflow

magander — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 10:42:32 +0000

An extremely short blog post 🙂 A few days ago i was trying to run a vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) 5.5.1 built in workflow and received the following error: This error tells you that the workflow didn’t pass the validation check before running and that’s why you can’t run the workflow. The workflow would not have …

vCloud Director internal server error when deploying vApps

magander — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 13:54:45 +0000

During VMware vCloud Director (vCD) vApp deployments using the latest versions of both vSphere (ESXi 5.1 and VMware vCenter Server 5.1.0b 947939) and VMware vCloud Director (5.1.1 868405) i got the below vDC error message: The vCD cell logs located in the /opt/vmware/vcloud-director/logs directory told me e.g. “vCenter Server is unresponsive” These errors made me start investigating …

VXLAN VIB installation fails

magander — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 16:20:48 +0000

So today was the fourth time during a very limited time frame the ESXi host VXLAN VIB installation failed when trying to enable the VXLAN functionality. When using the installation procedure for VXLAN documented here i’m not even reaching the part (Figure 6 in the provided link) when the ESXi hosts VMkernel Interfaces (Virtual Adapters/vmk) are created …