In case you find some issues while adding a VMWARE ESXi host to vCenter Server and you get an error message “A General System error Occurred” or “vim.fault.NoPermission”. This issue occurs by inconsistent authorization setup on the ESXi Host. The name of this authorization file is “authorization.xml” and located at /etc/vmware/hostd You can follow the […]
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Power Off an Unresponsive Virtual Machine
If you find unresponsiveness behavior of a virtual machine, you can use ESXCLI command to turn off or power off a virtual machine. Connect to console of your ESXi host, you can use putty to establish a ssh session. To find a list of all the virtual machines running on the host, use the below […]
Find the Service Tag of a Dell ESXi Host
There are several ways to find the service tag of a Dell ESXi host. This post could be helpful to find the Service Tag of a Dell ESXi Host remotely. You need to establish either a ssh or a console session to the ESXi host. Type in the below commands: [root@localhost:`] cd /bin [root@localhost:/bin] cd […]
Cannot disable the provisioning of desktops on a VMware View pool
Sometimes, you see the below error message on View Administrator Console while trying to disable the provisioning of desktops: “Provisioning was not disabled on all the pools due to an error” To resolve this issue, you need to change the values of “Allow users to choose protocol” from YES to NO. Therefore, changing this […]
VMware -Install VIB for the NVIDIA GRID K1 Graphics Card on the ESXi Host
NVIDIA GRID graphics card enables multiple virtual machines to have a direct and simultaneous access to a single physical Graphical Processing Unit. Installing the NVIDIA VIB Download the NVIDIA GPU VIB from the NVIDIA web site depending upon the version of the VMware vSphere ESXi Extract the downloaded file and upload to the datastore accessible […]