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When trying to deploy an OVF using the web interface getting error: Client Integration Plug-in must be installed to enable OVF functionality

May 19, 2016November 5, 2022Tristan Self

Problem: When trying to deploy an OVF using the web interface, you getting this error message below. Even when you have installed the client integration plugins it still doesn’t work. “Client Integration Plug-in must be installed to enable OVF functionality” Solution: 1. Uninstall any/all existing Vmware client integration plugins from: Control Panel->Add/Remove Programs 2. Restart […]

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Exchange 2010 Restoration fails with: ROP Error: 0x80070057 Error: MapiExceptionInvalidParameter: Unable to modify table.

May 13, 2016November 5, 2022Tristan SelfLeave a Comment

A colleague had a problem when attempting a restore a mailbox, this error was generated: Error: MapiExceptionInvalidParameter: Unable to modify table. (hr=0x80070057, ec=-2147024809) Diagnostic context: Lid: 55847 EMSMDBPOOL.EcPoolSessionDoRpc called [length=228] Lid: 43559 EMSMDBPOOL.EcPoolSessionDoRpc returned [ec=0x0][length=348][latency=15] Lid: 23226 — ROP Parse Start — Lid: 27962 ROP: ropModifyRules [65] Lid: 17082 ROP Error: 0x80070057 Lid: 27745 Lid: […]

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VM won’t vMotion on Nutanix Cluster – Error: msg.vmk.status.VMK_BUSY

April 19, 2016November 5, 2022Tristan Self

Had an issue where a VM would not migrate to another node within the Nutanix cluster, getting this error message after about 21%. To resolve this I used: https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1031636 even though this is for version 4.x this worked for VMware 5.5. On the host under advanced settings change this setting: Migrate.VMotionResolveswaptype = 1 Change the […]

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Check an SSL Certificate File in plain English

March 7, 2016November 5, 2022Tristan SelfLeave a Comment

You need to verify that a file cert.pem contains the certificate you expected, to do this you can use this command to view the certificate in plain text with expiry date etc visible.

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Using check_snmp to check if a metric is within a range or not

February 18, 2016November 5, 2022Tristan SelfLeave a Comment

Sometimes a metric needs to fall between a range to be considered OK, and outside the range (i.e. above and below) for a warning, and outside that range (i.e. above and below) for a critical. So for example monitoring the input voltage into a APC UPS to ensure it is within a certain range. So […]

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Can’t join VMware 5.5 VCSA to Active Directory – Error: Invalid Active Directory Domain

January 21, 2016November 5, 2022Tristan Self

When attempting to add a VMWare vCenter Server Appliance to our Active Directory I encountered this error message: “Error: Invalid Active Directory Domain”. Within the /var/log/vmware/vpx/vpxd_cfg.log log file I was seeing the following: It would seem that the root record for the domain is missing, this should resolve to a domain controller, so it has […]

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Find the file and folder location of a VMWare template

January 5, 2016November 5, 2022Tristan Self

Seems on the face of it to be something that you can find in the GUI, but its not quite that easy! Based on this link: https://psvmware.wordpress.com/2013/07/04/where-are-virtual-machine-templates-located/ You can find it out by running the following, this will provide you with the name of the template, the host it is currently on and where the […]

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VMware Transparent Page Sharing – Is it on? How much RAM is it saving?

January 2, 2016November 5, 2022Tristan Self

VMWare TPS (Transparent Page Sharing) is a mechanism within the hypervisor to allow the saving of RAM by allowing virtual machines where their memory matches to only store a copy of the memory used once. I.e. If you had 5 Windows 2012 R2 virtual machines running, they are going to be almost completely identical, so […]

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Automating VMware Memory Changes

December 2, 2015November 5, 2022Tristan Self

I had to make some memory changes on a batch of VMs. I didn’t want to have to manually shutdown each VM, alter the memory setting and then restart as this would be very time consuming instead I prepared this script. You first need to create a CSV file, e.g. vmalterlist.csv and place it somewhere on […]

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Altering the vCenter VM without a Management Cluster

December 1, 2015November 5, 2022Tristan Self

What do you do, when you have a virtualised vCenter VM, but you want to adjust something about it without locking yourself out of vCenter. In my case I had a vCenter server that I wanted to adjust the memory on. To do this without locking yourself out, you should follow these steps: 1. First […]

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When trying to deploy an OVF using the web interface getting error: Client Integration Plug-in must be installed to enable OVF functionality

Exchange 2010 Restoration fails with: ROP Error: 0x80070057 Error: MapiExceptionInvalidParameter: Unable to modify table.

VM won’t vMotion on Nutanix Cluster – Error: msg.vmk.status.VMK_BUSY

Check an SSL Certificate File in plain English

Using check_snmp to check if a metric is within a range or not

Can’t join VMware 5.5 VCSA to Active Directory – Error: Invalid Active Directory Domain

Find the file and folder location of a VMWare template

VMware Transparent Page Sharing – Is it on? How much RAM is it saving?

Automating VMware Memory Changes

Altering the vCenter VM without a Management Cluster

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AWS Transit Gateway with VPN to On-Premise Palo Alto Firewall

VMware vCenter – “Exception in invoking authentication handler User password expired”