vSphere – Guest VM is shown as (Orphaned)
Nov17

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...

Read More
VMware VI Client – Remove Cached IP addresses and Hostnames
Nov17

VMware VI Client – Remove Cached IP addresses and Hostnames

KB ID 0000644  Problem If you connect to a lot of ESX, ESXi and vCenter machines, the drop down list in your VI client can get a little cluttered. Solution 1. Start > Run > Regedit {enter} 2. Navigate to; HKEY_CURRENT_CURRENT_USERSoftwareVMwareVMware Infrastructure ClientPreferences Locate the ‘RecentConnections’ string value, and either delete them all, (or just the ones you no longer need). 3. Now things will be a...

Read More