It is possible to exclude a dedicated virtual disk (vmdk) from snapshot operations. A usecase for this is eg. an IO intensive SQL server you want to backup, but where there are so many changes that it is not possible…
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If you see the following error while taking a snapshot for a virtual machine backup, the resolution below may work for you: Warning message from …: The guest OS has reported an error during quiescing. The error code was: 5 The error…
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After changing the NIC from a virtual machine to another network, vCenter (vSphere 5) showed both networks – the old and the new one in the summary tab: I double checked the .vmx configuration, tried to remove and re-add the…
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