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vSphere – Guest VM is shown as (Orphaned)

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KB ID 0000414 

Problem

I’ve seen this happen a few times now, while looking at your Virtual infrastructure, one or more client machines is greyed out and shown as (Orphaned).

Solution

If you have many guests VM’s on one host with this problem, you can cure this by removing the parent host and re-adding it to the cluster, then right clicking it and select “Reconfigure for HA“.

Or you can do the following, on a machine by machine basis.

1. Right click the affected VM and select “Remove from Inventory” (nothing gets deleted don’t worry.)

2. Select one of your ESX hosts > Configuration > storage > Right click the storage that holds the virtual machine we are dealing with and select “Browse Datastore” > Locate the machines .vmx file > Right click > Add to inventory > Follow the instructions.

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VMware ESX – When Deploying a Template ‘Network interface {name} uses network {name} which is not accessible’

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KB ID 0000846 

Problem

I tried to deploy a VM Template today and was greeted with this error, I had renamed all the networks in this environment since I created this template, so I know why I was getting this error.

But there seems to be no way to edit the template itself to change the value to the correct network.

Solution

In the procedure below I will be jumping backwards and forwards between Hosts and Clusters view and VMs and Templates view. I’m assuming you know the difference between them, and how to switch between. Note: If you can’t see the templates then switch to VMs and Templates If you can’t see the storage then switch to Hosts and Clusters.

1. Browse your datastore(s), and locate the filename.vmtx that is associated with your ‘problem’ template, and download it to your PC/Laptop.

2. Open the vmtx file with a text editor, and locate the entry that refers to the ‘old network’.

3. Get the correct name of the new network from an existing working VM like so.

4. Change the entry in the vmtx file to the new name, then save the changes.

5. Now upload the edited file, to over-write the one in your datastore.

At this point you would thing that’s all you need to do. However before the change is recognised by Virtual Center, you need to remove then re-register it again.

6. Locate the template and remove it from the inventory.

7. Then right click your edited vmtx file and add it back to the inventory.

8. Now your template should deploy correctly.

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