Category: vSphere

I built a new storage array and migrated the VMs accordingly. But the server gave the following error message: I noticed that the old datastore is still shown as “inaccessible” in vCenter: And even via esxcli I don’t see the datastore anymore: So I first choose the classic way, putting the Server in Maintenance Mode and “Reboot does Good”. But the inaccessible Datastore is still […]

If you want to make VM creation easier, you may have VM templates in your VMware vCenter, in addition to automation tools. Accordingly, I wanted to use a Windows Server 2019 template and build a VM from it. In the process, I ran into an error that had not happened to me before: The error message says: Module CPUID power on failed. Failed to start […]

In this post we will see on how you can create VM Customization Specifications policy in VMware vCenter for a Windows Server 2019 VM Template. VM Customization Specifications allows you to configure few options for your Guest OS which is running inside your VM. You can configure things like Timezone, Admin Password, Licesing, Network etc. The most important requirement to apply this policies is, that […]