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VMworld 2017 Breakout Session – Troubleshooting vSphere 6 Made Easy

Session “Troubleshooting vSphere 6 Made Easy: Expert Talk – INF9205R” was presented by Ragavendra Kumar who works as a Technical Support Supervisor at  VMware and Abhilash Kunhappan who is a Staff Technical Support Engineer at VMware. The following areas were covered: vCenter Server ESXi Server Network Storage The session included both methodology & actually tips and …

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Virtual machine disk consolidation needed.

This blog post applies to the vCenter Server version 5.1.0.880146 and ESXi version 5.1.0.799733. Today i ran into an issue with the Snapshot Consolidate feature. The vSphere Web Client informed me that a “Virtual machine disk consolidation needed” was required for my VM. The virtual machine is backed up by vSphere Data Protection 5.1.0.56.179 and …

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