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Month: February 2017

Veeam One Reporter Server installation failed

Veeam One Reporter Server installation failed

During the recent deployment of Veeam One as part of Veeam Availability Suite I met a mysterious problem during the installation. The problems seemed to be related to Veeam Reporter Server. Environment characteristic: – Veeam 9.5 with Update One – Virtual Machine in Windows AD domain – Domain user with log on as service and local Administrator privileges – External clustered MS-SQL Server 2012 – Database created by the installator or using the script provided by Veeam – both ways…

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VMware vExperts 2017 awards

VMware vExperts 2017 awards

VMware vExpert is a non technical award granted by a special committee every year. It is a special award because there is no exam or anything like that. VMware judges give it for individuals who have demonstrated significant contributions to the community and share their expertise with others. This means different kinds of activities like blogging, sharing the knowledge by other channels or social media as well as  public speakers, book authors, CloudCred task writing, script writers, VMUG leaders and VMTN…

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VMware vSphere tags limit – is it known ?

VMware vSphere tags limit – is it known ?

Recently I received quite interesting question – what is the supported maximum quantity  for tags in vCenter 6.0U2 ? Malignant author of the question is a good friend of mine and VMware administrator in one person. He ssked about tags limit because he want to use them to provide more information about each of its production VM’s – roughly speaking need to create about 20000 tags. I thought ok., give me couple seconds to verify this,  and looked fast in…

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vSphere 6.5 – Update Manager changes

vSphere 6.5 – Update Manager changes

Going through our list of articles about new features in vSphere 6.5 the last one is vSphere Update Manager for vCenter Server Appliance. Since vSphere 6.5 it’s fully embedded and integrated with vCenter Server Appliance with no Windows dependencies. It means that vCenter Server Appliance delivers now Update Manager as an optional service similar to Auto Deploy, etc. Since vSphere 6.5 there is no longer possible to connect Update Manager instance that is installed on a Windows Server machine with vCenter Appliance….

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VMware Postgres 9.3.9.0 Installer failed with error code ‘3010’

VMware Postgres 9.3.9.0 Installer failed with error code ‘3010’

Couple days ago I hit strange issue with vcenter 6.x appliance update process. Attempting to upgrade vCenter server 6.0 U1 to 6U2, encounter following error: Installation of component VMware Postgres 9.3.9.0 Installer failed with error code ‘3010’. The installation rolled back after clicking at OK button. I was able to find following KB 2144389 with a similar issue but the workaround didn’t work. After rolling back to a snapshot before the update, we also tried to update vCenter to 6U…

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