March 11, 2015

Device eth0 does not seem to be present

VMware,

Issues After restoring a VM from datastore or after cloning a centos VM on Vsphere, we see the following error during network restart “Device eth0 does not seem to be present” Cause: After cloning or restore from datastore, the MAC address needs to be edited on the VM configuration settings since the MAC ID tends…

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March 10, 2015

Vmware – Unable to operate a ESX host with locked disk

VMware,

Background – No operation can be performed on an ESX host and you may see files are locked by other processes. Solution Determine which ESXi/ESX host has a locked or rogue file. * First login to the local tech support mode console on the host. * Use the command vmkfstools to obtain the lockstatus of…

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