Troubleshooting Archive - Page 23 of 35 - All about virtualization

How to – display/activate a diagnostic coredump partition on your ESXi 5.x Host

Andreas Lesslhumer 15. January 2014 2 How to…, Management, Troubleshooting 5.1, 5.5, activate, diagnostic coredump partition, display, esxcli, esxi 5

If your ESXi Host 5.0/5.1/5.5 experiences a purple diagnostic screen of death (PSOD), it hopefully creates a diagnostic coredump. This dump contains useful information for a root cause analysis. If there is no available disk partition for a coredump on…
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Take care when backing up vmdk disks > 2 TB with HotAdd (vSphere 5.5)

Andreas Lesslhumer 7. January 2014 0 Management, Troubleshooting 2 TB, Backup and Replication, backup fails, larger, Tivoli Data Protection for VMware Plugin, TSM, veeam, vmdk, vmware, vSphere 5.5, Workaround

If you use vmdk disks with a size of 2 TB or larger and use HotAdd mode to do backups, please take care and read VMware’s KB 2068424. There is a known issue affecting the Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK)…
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Creating a quiesced snapshot during backup generates NTFS Warnings/Errors

Andreas Lesslhumer 2. January 2014 2 Management, Troubleshooting, VMware backup, delayed write failed / delayed write lost, failed to flush data to, NTFS Error, NTFS Warning, quiesced snapshot, •ID 50 NTFS Warning

When your backup software (eg. IBM Tivoli Data Protection for VMware) creates a quiesced snapshot on a Windows Server, sometimes one or more of the following NTFS Warnings/Errors can be found in the machines eventlogs: ID 50 NTFS Warning, delayed…
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