VMware

When turning on a virtual machine, you may encounter the error "Exception 0xc0000005 (access violation) has occurred Error" on a VMware workstation. If you recently upgraded your Windows to Windows 11 or installed it on a new computer. Here…

Recently I found an error “Windows cannot find the Microsoft Software License Terms. Make sure the installation sources are valid and restart the installation. “, when installing Windows server 2019 in VMware Workstation 15 and earlier…

VMware Workstation Pro is a virtualization software (hosted on Windows and Linux) that allows users to run virtual machines, containers, and Kubernetes clusters. It's quite easy to create a new virtual machine in VMware Workstation. We…

In every latest version of vSphere ESXi, VMware is trying to tighten the security of ESXi. Recently, I faced an issue that I was unable to log in on ESXi using SSH after multiple wrong password attempts to root account from my colleague.…

Today, I faced an issue that despite SSH service was running properly and Lockdown mode was not enabled but I was not able to connect ESXi host using ssh to perform some tasks. I restarted the SSH service again but issue didn't  fixed. I…

Run EMC Grab for ESXi Hosts from Windows Clients. EMC Grab is a small utility that can be used to get storage-related information (such as Network, HBA, and other hardware information) from ESXi hosts. EMC Grab's latest version can be…

An error occurred while taking a snapshot: Failed to quiesce the virtual machine. ESXi 6.5 - Windows 2012 R2 Issue: the Virtual machine has a physical RDM (Raw Device Map) attached when taking a backup or manual snapshot, You will see the…

Finding VM with Fixed or Round Robin MultiPath Policy Objective: In some cases, we need to change the Path Selection from RoundRobin to Fixed or vice versa, It is quite difficult to check each VM and change their RDM path policy.…

An error occurred while taking a snapshot: Failed to quiesce the virtual machine. VCSA 6.5 HA Issue : You will face the following snapshot error when taking a backup of VCSA 6.5 with VCHA, especially on the peer node and witness VM. An…

Failed to Deploy OVF Package: Invalid Configuration for Device '6' Issue : When importing OVF file, The error appears  "Failed to deploy OVF Package: Invalid configuration for device '6' " Solutions : 1- Edit the OVF file in notepad…