vSphere – Guest VM is shown as (Orphaned)
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...
VMware ESX – When Deploying a Template ‘Network interface {name} uses network {name} which is not accessible’
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...