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Purple Screen of Death or commonly known as  PSOD  is something which we see most of the times on ESXi host. Usually when we experience PSOD, we take the screenshot of PSOD and reboot the host and then capture the logs and upload it to VMware support for analysis. Let’s analyze the dumps by yourself? Step 1:  Sometimes, we might miss out on the screenshot of PSOD. Well that's alright! If we have core-dump configured for the ESXi, we can extract the dump files to gather the crash logs. Once the host is back up from accident reboot post PSOD, login to the SSH/Putty of the host and go to the core directory. The core directory is the location where your PSOD logging go to. The most important one is the “Core” folder which contains the kernel dump, the PSOD will purge what was in memory to a file called vmkernel-zdump.1 or something to that affect and place it in that directory. So go to # cd var/core  Then list out the files here using ls –ltr . ...

AVAMAR Backup Failure Troubleshooting Steps 1)       Login to server 2)       Check the system Tray Icon for Avamar Agent 3)       If the check mark shows green Avamar client is communicating with backup Server (Follow the below troubleshooting Steps mentioned at the end of this document to fix the issue) 4)       If the Check Mark Shows Red It means the client is communicating the server but the last backup was Failed (Follow the below troubleshooting Steps mentioned at the end of this document to fix the issue) 5)       If the Check Mark Is Orange it means the Client is not communicating with backup server(Follow the below Steps and later Follow the below troubleshooting Steps mentioned at the end of this document to fix the issue) i)                  ...

C DRIVE EXPANSION FOR WINDOWS 2003 Extend System Partition on a Windows Server 2003 VM using Dell ExtPart This explains the steps to Expand C-drive on Windows 2003 server without downing the server. There is no native tool that enables extending system partitions (C:\ drives) on Server 2003. There are multiple ways to perform this task, however, the only method that can be done online utilizes a Dell utility called ExtPart. It can perform the extension of the system partition with no downtime although sometimes booting into Safe Mode and then running ExtPart is necessary to clear locks on the disk. Note: This applies to Server 2003 only, newer versions of Windows do not suffer from this limitation, Disk Management as well as the disk part are able to extend system partitions on-the-fly. Procedures: The first step is to download the ExtPart utility from (http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/04/Drivers/DriversDetails?driverId=R64398) link. Click on the Download File link and s...

Real Time Issue "disk consolidation needed" Error : Unable to access a file since it is locked. Resolution :  1 .Go to edit setting of backup server for the effected VM and check the disks one by one, you find the lock disk name with the effected VM name as below. [Datastore name] effected VMname /effected VMname.vmdk 2 .Select the disk with the effected VMname on the Backup server disks and click on remove. 3 .Make sure removal options should be "Remove from virtual machine" and click on ok. 4 .Now go to effected VM and follow below steps. VM -> Snapshot -> Consolidate.

Real Time Isuue " Create virtual machine snapshot " Error : An error occurred while saving the snapshot : Change tracking target file already exists. Resolution :  1.Connect to the ESXi host that the virtual machine is running on using SSH. 2.Navigate to the virtual machine folder using this command.   cd /vmfs/volumes/datastore/virtual_machine/ 3.List the contents of the directory using the ls command and look for .ctk files. Create a temporary directory for the ctk files For example: mkdir temp Move the CBT files to this directory with this command: mv *-ctk.vmdk temp/ 4.Run the snapshot consolidation again.

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