Usman Ghani - IT professional

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

What is SSL & TLS and Why We need to Disable Old Version? SSL (Secure Socket Layer) is a technology to keep an internet connection secure or protected when there is a data transfer between two systems and prevents criminals to steal…

Failed to create tray icon for directive 'Interactive Progress' (hr=80243004) Issue: You may face an issue when trying to update and install Windows Updates. Upon checking you will find in WindowsUpdates.log with following entries. "…

PIN and Fingerprint Sign-in Options Unavailable in Windows 10. Issue: PIN and Fingerprint Sign -in Options are greyed out or Unavailable on Windows 10 PCs in a domain Environment. Solution: To fix this issue, We need to edit the…

Convert .Crt Certificate to .Cer Certificate There are different format of certificates available such as Crt, Cer, Pfx etc. and each application has its own requirement. Most popular format of certificate on Linux & Windows is pfx,…

Conversion of .Crt Certificate to .Pfx format Recently we faced an issue where a client renewed his certificate from Godaddy, after renewal client found that private key is missing in the certificate. Godaddy support suggested to import…

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.…

How To Find WWN on Windows 2012 R2 Objective : Finding wwn on Windows 2012 R2 using PowerShell. Solution: Following command will fetch the WWN on HBA Adapters available on your server. Get-WmiObject -class MSFC_FCAdapterHBAAttributes…

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

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…