(or password) this was a new one for me. after some problems involving the vcenter server a particular host was issuing this error. according to the vmware kb (proof: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2014275) and various blogs the easiest solution is to disconnect and reconnect the host to vcenter. unfortunately, after disconnecting the host i could not reconnect the host […]

vcenter rarely causes me problems (except during the 5.1 upgrade), it usually just runs and reboots are a non-issue. last week i rebooted the vcenter server to install windows updates and to fix something messed up with the VUM service. after the reboot, i was experiencing two issues. one was that i couldn’t connect to […]

files related to snapshots… .vmsn file = snapshot state/”the snapshot file” (will also contain VM memory data if included in snapshot) 00000#-delta.vmdk = delta disk 00000#.vmdk = descriptor file for delta disk (plain text) .vmsd = snapshot list (plain text) additional info: http://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/ws_learning_files_in_a_vm.html and the video “vsphere-anatomy-of-snapshots”

in case there was ever a legal reason why an admin would need to access the contents of another user’s mailbox, the following specifies how to… http://help.outlook.com/140/gg709759.aspx (i’ve never tested this)