A new day with a new problem…

Today one of the SAN’s thought it was vacation. A nice error showing there was something wrong ‘vmware Failing I/O due to too many reservation conflicts’ Reading through http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1005009… Checked the volume on the console and could not even enter the directory. Management of the SAN was also unreachable. Rebooted the SAN.

Local user creation bug

Yesterday i added a local user to vSphere 4 host with the vSphere client. I forgot the ‘shell access’ box. After that i enabled the box for shell access, when logging in, the home directory did not exist. Solution for this: cd /home mkdir username chown username dirname chmod 700 dirname

Vmware blog

I will be posting vmware things i run into during my day job. This is the first post \o/ I did my vcp-410 exam on 18-dec-2009 with a score of 488/500 🙂