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In my case it had something to do with the Drac-configuration. I had to disable “System Services” in the drac-menu.

The weird thing was, that i have 2 identical servers, and only one of them had them problem.

Link:

Thread on vmware

Download EASEUS Todo Backup, here

Clone the systemdrive to a newly added bigger HDD

Now Extend the volume to fit the bigger HD

To extend a basic volume

1. Open Command Prompt.
2. Type:

diskpart
3. At the DISKPART prompt, type:

list volume

Make note of the number of the basic volume you want to extend.
4. At the DISKPART prompt, type:

select volume n

Selects the basic volume, n, you want to extend into contiguous, empty space on the same disk.
5. At the DISKPART prompt, type:

extend [size=n]

Eg: extend size=22000

This extends the drive with 22GB

Know your way around in the vCenter GUI. There are some questions in the VCP4-test regarding what options you have different places in the GUI. Go through all menus and options, and know what they are there for.

An example could be: What is the default setting for “Default cluster settings” under VM monitoring in the HA-configuration?

1: Low

2: Medium

3: High

Check the answer out here

Check out this blog post from Jeroen van de Kamp. Alot of thing to consider when virtualizing TS/citrix workloads. Also handy in a VDI-environment.

Check out this forum post. Alot of usefull things and considerations.

First of all, know your maximums! Its not that big a part of the test but its is easy point if you can memorize them. Memorize this whitepaper and take the the practice exams that on Simon Long’s blog until you get them 100% right. That helped me alot.

I passed my VCP4 today Pretty difficult test.

I would like to introduce feedreader. Its a regular rss-reader, nothing fancy there. I use it every day to get news about different things and i would like to share the virtualization-rss-feeds i use and read.

http://www.amikkelsen.com/?feed=rss2

http://feeds.brianmadden.com/brianmadden/rss

http://professionalvmware.com/feed/

http://feeds.feedburner.com/SearchservervirtualizationServerVirtualizationNewsAndOpinions

http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/server-virtualization/feed/

http://www.virtualtroll.com/?feed=rss2

http://feeds.feedburner.com/Virtualization_info?format=xml

http://feeds2.feedburner.com/vSphere-land

http://feeds.scottlowe.org/slowe/content/feed/

Power issues

I am gonna upgrade out ESX4-hosts to u1 and i came across this problem. One of the VMs would not vmotion to another host. I am getting this error

“Migrate virtual machine ubuntu02.domain.tld The operation is not allowed in the current state.”

The thing that was wierd was, that it was only that VM that had the problem. The CPU and memory-usage counter showed 0. So i tried reinstalling vmware tools and reboot. Nothing helped.

I found the solution here

service mgmt-vmware restart

and

service vmware-vpxa restart

solved the problem