Symptoms: Performing storage vMotion of any VM onto datastore shows validation failure with error "Operation not allowed in the current state of the datastore" Creating new VMs ends up with same error. Cause: Integrating VASA plugin for the storage array to vSphere management inculcates some of the alarms for easier storage / vSphere management. This… Continue reading Performing storage vmotion throws "The Operation is not allowed in the current state of the datastore"
Category: vCenter
vCenter 6.0 upgrade: Error occured while creating scheduled task for IIAD
While upgrading vCenter server from 5.5 to 6.0 U3 , you may face error as below, Stderr: ERROR:The network address is invalid. Error occurred while creating scheduled task for IIAD. Symptoms: While upgrading vCenter server from 5.5 to 6.0 Update 3, you may face error as below, An error occurred while invoking external command :… Continue reading vCenter 6.0 upgrade: Error occured while creating scheduled task for IIAD
VMware vMotion fails with Error " Timed out waiting for Migration data"
This article assumes that you have checked the VMware KB articles below for troubleshooting vMotion network. vMotion of a VM fails with the error: "Timed out waiting for migration data" (2143834) Symptoms: VMware vMotion fails between ESXi hosts. vMotion VMK ping is successful between ESXi hosts. Virtual machine is large in Size ( VMs with… Continue reading VMware vMotion fails with Error " Timed out waiting for Migration data"
vSphere PSC 6.0 goes out of AD domain frequently
After building a new vsphere site with 6.0 PSCs , you may end up having them unjoined from domain frequently after some time. Symptoms: PSC node automatically moves out of active directory domain. System configuration -- > Deployment -- > Nodes in webclient shows both "JOIN" and "LEAVE" option greyed out for the PSC node.… Continue reading vSphere PSC 6.0 goes out of AD domain frequently
Login fails to vCenter server saying "took too long to respond- Command timed out"
A very basic error that a VMware administrator would face often is the login failure to vCenter. However, we usually check the vCenter service and vCenter database associated with it. What if I say that, vCenter service is running fine. Able to login to the vCenter through Web client successfully. Restarting the vCenter server didn't… Continue reading Login fails to vCenter server saying "took too long to respond- Command timed out"
The Data Service detected slow execution -VMware vSphere Webclient reports data query service time out.
Error: virgo.log reports , "com.vmware.vise.data.query.DataServiceException: The data service timed out because a back-end task took more than 120 seconds. See the vsphere-client-virgo.log for more details." vSphere_client-Virgo.log reports below error: The Data Service detected slow execution:A DataProviderAdapter execution took too long: xxxx milliseconds. Symptoms: vSphere web client takes longer time than usual for loading after logging in.… Continue reading The Data Service detected slow execution -VMware vSphere Webclient reports data query service time out.
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