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Category: Computing

  • Cannot remove snapshot(s) from Virtual Machine

    Backups of a virtual machine were no longer completing with the following error in the log files: ” A general system error occurred: vim.fault.GenericVmConfigFault“. Virtual machine backups use snapshots to get a point in time instance of data on the disk. Lingering snapshots will interfere with future backups so the first thing I look for…

  • Python – “No module named pip._internal” error

    Problem: After upgrading an Lubuntu 16.04 instance to 18.04 I experianced problems executing pip or pip3 on the system. I received the following error anytime I tried to execute pip or pip3: ModuleNotFoundError No module named pip _internal Thinking that this was related to the OS upgrade I tried removing andthen installing the python-pip and…

  • Space Reduction for Windows Virtual Machines

    Issue When we work with thin provisioned virtual machines we want the virtual machine to be as storage efficient as possible, especially when we make the virtual machine portable by using ovftool or exporting the machine. When working with Windows virtual machines we also encounter storage excesses due to the the WinSxS folder, which Microsoft…

  • Moving VMs from datastore to datastore using PowerCLI and Storage vMotion

    Overview This is the time of season for us sysadmins to perform upgrades, updates and installation of new gear. In a virtualized world we may think that this is no longer something that is difficult or time consuming. In most cases this line of thought is correct, however, there are instances where the underlying process…

  • Using Ubuntu Unity – Virtual Desktops

    Intro When I first started using Ubuntu a few years back, I remember doing so begrudgingly. It seemed that I was going backwards in productivity when having to use Unity, so I always tried to find alternatives. Background check here: I am a middle aged IT person that has used Linux for 15+ years. But, I…

  • Virtual Machines “Inaccessible” after Datastore Outage

    Issue If you ever had to take a NFS datastore down to perform updates on an early release of vSphere 5.1 then you may have seen  (inaccessible) following the grayed and italicized virtual machine name in the vSphere Client. This is a know issue and is identified in VMware ESXi 5.1u1 release notes as: Virtual…

  • How to disable IE Enhanced Security in Windows 2008

    Have you installed Windows 2008 and tried using Internet Explorer only to find that everything that you go to has to be added to an approved list? Have you installed another browser just to get around this problem? Well, you probably don’t need to install another browser if you don’t want to because there is…

  • VMware I Moved It / I Copied It

    The Problem In our environment we use virtual machines on a nested hypervisor for testing. When clone or move the nested hypervisor virtual machine to another machine, the internal virtual machines all had the icon next to them indicating that they could not power up and needed attention. Upon opening a remote console session to…