Allthough there are a few tips about this little error message it took me two or three minutes to find to solution and get it working againg. This error occured at a vSphere server with a tape unit attached, which obviously wasn’t working anymore so i replaced it with another unit.
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vSphere 5 on HP DL380 G7 with hardware warning status
After installing the latest HP Offline bundle my server returned a hardware warning status, so the investigation started. Before upgrading the HP drivers there was no error so i had to be something in the driverpack from HP. In my setup the affected server is a HP DL380 G7 with a P410i Arraycontroller. The affected offline bundle is: hp-esxi5.0uX-bundle-1.4-16.zip Solution: …
Read More »vSphere 5 – Install HP management drivers / agents
The default download of vSphere hasn’t got vendor specific management drivers included and without these drivers you won’t be able to check the health of your Array-Controller or discs. What if a problem occurs? Well you can install the HP management drivers by installing the offline bundle.
Read More »vSphere 5 vCenter – Check New Notifications tasks are queued
When you log on to your vCenter server and you see a long list of queued of “Check new notifications” tasks with the status of queued you will probably wonder how do does this happen and what to do?
Read More »Create a Bootable vSphere 5 USB installation media
In the modern server world we don’t always have a cd/dvd drive in the server, but we always have USB. But how do we get the downloaded vSphere 5 .iso file onto a USB media and make it bootable?
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