Error: 0x8007232B DNS Name Does Not Exist
KB ID 0001622 Problem Seen when attempting to ‘Activate’ a Window machine; Error: 0x8007232B DNS name does not exist Solution The reason for this error is the Windows machine has looked for a KMS (Key Management Server) in its local DNS, and not found one. This is because (out of the box) it has a Windows KMS licence code installed. Now if you have a KMS server you need to work out why you cant see it, I’ve covered...
Veeam: ‘Error Storage Not Initialized’
KB ID 0001614 Problem I got tasked with looking at a failover plan for a customer recently, but I noticed their replications were failing, two of the VMs in the replication job were repeatedly failing with; Error: Storage not initialized Solution This took a while to get to the bottom of! Essentially the problem was the ‘Metadata’ for these two VMs was either corrupt or could not be written to. So to fix the problem, the...
PowerCLI: Connect-VIServer Certificate Errors
KB ID 0001603 Problem When attempting to connect to a vCenter or ESXi host, you see the following error; Connect-VIServer : {Date} {Time} Connect-VIServer Error: Invalid server certificate. Use Set-PowerCLIConfiguration to set the value for the InvalidCertificateAction option to Prompt if you’d like to connect once or to add a permanent exception for this server. Additional Information: Could not establish trust relationship...
VMware Horizon Machines Stuck ‘Customizing’
KB ID 0001595 Problem In all honesty there’s lots of reasons for this. I’ll cover the ones that have tripped me up, if you find some new ones feel free to post them below. Solutions Before continuing, the image needs to have the Horizon Agent installing within it, and it has to be the SAME version that your Composer and Connection servers are running, (or newer). Also your Horizon servers are connecting to VMware vCenter...
VMware ESXi Syslog Errors – ‘System logs on host {host-name} are stored on non-persistent storage.’
KB ID 0000456 Problem Syslog Error Seen on ESXi 6.0 and 6.5 System logs on host {host-name} are stored on non-persistent storage. Syslog Error Seen on ESXi 5.1 Error Configuration Issues System logs on host {host-name} are stored on non-persistent storage. Syslog Error Seen on ESXi 5 Error Configuration Issues System logging is not configured on host {host-name}. Syslog Error Seen on ESXi 4 Error Configuration Issues Issue detected...