Tag: VMware

vSphere Web Client – Use Windows Session Authentication not available in Google Chrome

April 21, 2015

Following a recent update to the Google Chrome Browser, in my case to version 42.0.2311.90 I was unable to select the ‘Use Windows Session Authentication’ option when authenticating the vSphere Web Client. In order to resolve this issue I was required to enable the use of  NPAPI plug-ins to support has been disabled by default in versions 42.0 and … More vSphere Web Client – Use Windows Session Authentication not available in Google Chrome

VCP5-DCV Delta Recertification Exam Experience

March 3, 2015

Well my expiry date for my current VMware Certified Professional (VCP) certification was due to expire on March 10 2015, and in all honesty for one reason or another I have not been proactive in renewing the certification, ideally I wanted to progress on the certification roadmap with the ‘VMware Certified Advanced Professional 5 – Data Center … More VCP5-DCV Delta Recertification Exam Experience

Creating VM Storage Policy returns PbmExtendedElementDescription required property summary not set

February 26, 2015

Following VM Storage Polices being enabled for a compute resource object in vSphere 5.5 and the attempt to create the first VM Storage Policy the following system error message was received: com.vmware.vim.binding.vmodl.fault.SystemError: reason = PbmExtendedElementDescription required property summary not set inherited from com.vmware.vim.binding.vmodl.fault.SystemError: Failed to serialize response It would appear that the above system error … More Creating VM Storage Policy returns PbmExtendedElementDescription required property summary not set

vRealize Orchestrator – createUserGroup Active Directory module does not set SamAccountName

February 23, 2015

I was recently creating a workflow task in vRealize Orchestrator to create a security group using a scriptable task so that the action of creating the security group is based on conditional logic to if the object currently exists in Active Directory the step will be skipped rather than report an error, something the out of … More vRealize Orchestrator – createUserGroup Active Directory module does not set SamAccountName

Windows Server 2012 virtual machines stop responding at splash screen

February 21, 2015

I recently discovered an issue on a restart of a virtual machine running the guest operating system Windows Server 2012 where following a restart the virtual machine would stop responding at the splash screen and required a manual shutdown and power on to restart the virtual machine. From investigation is a known issue caused by … More Windows Server 2012 virtual machines stop responding at splash screen