Windows Recovery Mode Doesn’t Recognize System Partition

By Rachmadona Sebayang

If you are running with VMware environment and patch your Windows Server regulary, sometimes when you got an issue and requires your to rollback the last patch. How you are gonna do to resolve the case? Yes, that’s right! You will need to boot into recovery mode either by in-built feature which available on Windows…

How to Get List of Protected VM in SRM – Part 1

By Rachmadona Sebayang

SRM is a great tool for your VMware environment for replication purpose from primary site to secondary site in case of disaster. It allows you to maintain the whole VM as it is without having specific setting respectively (presume you are adopting L2 extended VLAN within your DCs). But based on my experience, unfortunately it…

Proper Way to Restart The vCenter Services.

By rsebayang

If you  are running vCenter installed on top of the OS, sometime upon received an incident, service got hung and need to be restarted. Whereas you don’t want to reboot the OS since it will be taking time considering some OS files requires to be reloaded. it is possible to restart the vcenter services while…

How to Install Flash Player on Windows Server 2012

By rsebayang

Today i got an error when tried to access the vCenter web client. The error log is pretty simple, just need to install flash player since it prerequisite to open the web client. So, i tried to download the source from here http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer but seems this only available for online mode whereas my server does…

The Transaction Log for Database vCenter is Full due to LOG_BACKUP

By rsebayang

On first day in 2018, when somebody still celebrating the euphoria, i got surprised from my team saying our backup process has failed due to could not connect to vCenter. I asked them whether they had an activitiy during last WE. They said nothing, then i open my laptop and login into the problematic vCenter.…

VM on Protected Site Showing “Managed by Site Recovery Manager”

By rsebayang

For some other reason you might found any kind of error above if you are using SRM (Site Recovery Manager) feature on your VMware environment, especially on version < 6.0.0 U3. It’s a bug actually and the permanent fixing is only to patch the vCenter using the latest one. For particular cases, it might impacted…

Unable to connect to MKS: Login (username/password) incorrect

By rsebayang

Recent days ago i have successfully completed upgrade my ESXi lab from version 6.0 to 6.5. The reason why i upgrade is just curious about it’s new features which might be useful for my own research. Post upgrade i found first impression when tried to access the host through web client. As you know that…

Failed to Deploy OVF Package. The task was canceled by a user

By rsebayang

Past few days ago, I had trouble when trying to deploy OVA into vSphere ESXI platform. The error message shown as subject, “Failed to Deploy OVF Package. The task was canceled by a user”. Tried many times follow couple article even KB from VMware didn’t work at all. Had check from the hostd.log unfortunately it…

Penjadwalan Hapus Snapshot VM Pakai Script PowerCLI

By Rachmadona Sebayang

Believe it or not. Sekarang Gue kembali lagi ke belakang meja. Beneran! Nggak pakai bohong. Sepertinya kali ini Allah menjawab doa-doa Gue yang dulu, yaitu punya kerja dengan jabatan keren dan digaji lumayan gede. Cuma ya itu, kerjanya tak kenal waktu. Tapi Gue juga yakin Allah punya rencana yang indah bagi semua makhluknya di alam…

Another Script to Throttle VM

By Rachmadona Sebayang

When we are in section to simulate feature Distribute Resource Scheduler (DRS) in our vSphere lab, traditional way to force Virtual Machine (VM) doing full load of it’s vCPU is open application as many you can. Especially an application to encode video or even game. I think it’s quiet difficult to do and also really…