-
Recent Posts
- UniFi Controller Notifications using a STARTTLS Mail Server 10-Dec-2019
- Errno 28 When Trying to Update VMware ESXi 6.7.0 Update 2 to Update 3 29-Nov-2019
- Create a custom alias for a RemoteApp in Windows Server 2012 R2 20-Nov-2019
- Adjust Date/Time in Windows Server 2019 17-Nov-2019
- Let’s Encrypt Suddenly Failing to Renew a Certificate 07-Nov-2019
Archives
- December 2019 (1)
- November 2019 (4)
- September 2019 (2)
- August 2019 (3)
- May 2019 (3)
- April 2019 (1)
- March 2019 (2)
- February 2019 (1)
- January 2019 (3)
- July 2018 (1)
- June 2018 (4)
- May 2018 (1)
- January 2018 (1)
- December 2017 (2)
- September 2017 (1)
- August 2017 (1)
- May 2017 (1)
- April 2017 (5)
- March 2017 (3)
- February 2017 (4)
- January 2017 (1)
- November 2016 (2)
Monthly Archives: March 2017
Debian 8 Linux Guest Fails to Shut Down After Installing open-vm-tools
After installing open-vm-tools, ESXi reported that VMware Tools were Installed and running on the Debian 8 guest. However any attempt to gracefully power off the guest within ESXi would fail with these errors: [msg.tools.haltFailed] The request to Power off this … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
ESXi 6.5 Guest Fails to Power On After Changing Pass Through Device (Missing pciPassthru0.id entry)
Ran into a second error after swapping out a pass-through device in ESXi. This device was the same make and model as the previous device. Failed – Module ‘DevicePowerOn’ power on failed. * Module ‘DevicePowerOn’ power on failed. * Missing … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
ESXi 6.5 Guest Fails to Power On with New Pass Through Device
Initially the guest had a pass through HBA controller that was working well. That controller was later upgraded in the host. To update the guest with the new controller, the old pass through device was removed and the new pass … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
1 Comment