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Broadcom documents the bugs that took down somebody's cluster. Five real issues from the latest ESXi release notes - the exact error, the root cause and the fix, with the war stories behind them.
12 Sep 202612 min
APD, PDL and plain latency produce similar symptoms and need completely different responses. Here is how to classify the condition from the logs and recover correctly.
11 Sep 20268 min
A purple diagnostic screen is the VMkernel telling you it hit an unrecoverable condition. Here is how to read the panic banner, extract the core dump, and identify the faulting driver or hardware component.
8 Sep 20267 min
VMware has announced that VMware vSphere 7 will no longer support several VMware features, add-ons, and plugins. The deprecation of these features may come as a disappointment to some users; however, it is important to remember that VMware is constantly innovating and introducing new features to its product line. As such, the decision to deprecated […]
7 Oct 20225 min
Symptoms Cannot connect directly to the VMware ESXi host or manage under VMware vCenter server. VMware vCenter Server displays the error: Virtual machine creation may fail because agent is unable to retrieve VM creation options from the host Purpose For troubleshooting VMware ESXi connectivity issue, restart the management agents on your VMware ESXi host.Warning: If […]
6 Nov 20193 min
