Today, when I wanted to power one my virtual machine, I got the following error: An error was received from the ESX host while powering on MK_SIM. Connection error while establishing connection (11): Error connecting to /bin/vmx process. Cannot open a local pipe to local virtual machine '/vmfs/volumes/.... Under investigating I realized that there was… Read More »
Recently I have been playing with VVOL on NetApp. During registering VASA Provider for clustered Data ONTAP with VSC for VMware vSphere I got the following error: NVPF-00014: Unable to contact VASA server on hosts of xxx In the Virtual Storage Console nvpf.log (C:\Program Files\NetApp\Virtual Storage Console\log), I found the following info: [2015-04-10 20:22:40,262] [qtp129672157-30]… Read More »
NetApp has released Virtual Storage Console (VSC) 6.0 and VASA 6.0 for VMware vSphere. On quick reminder, by running VSC, you can perform tasks such as the following: Manage storage and configure the ESX host Provision datastores and clone virtual machines Perform online alignments and migrate virtual machines individually and in groups into new or… Read More »