17. July 2024

Dell DDVE “The GUI Service is temporarily unavailable” after vMotion

By H. Cemre Günay

I had to remove the “storage” disk of my DDVE VM for availability reasons and move the DDVE VM to my vSAN cluster so that I can maintain my backup server. Of course, this also means that I took a certain risk, as my backups were “deleted” – but that’s what I wanted.

After the migration, I was able to replace my backup server at my leisure and start it up again. When I added the server to vCenter/vDS etc. and migrated the DDVE VM to the backup server, added storage and powered it up, I got the following 2 views when I started my DDVE:

After doing some research, I realized that my DDVE had a certificate problem and to get back to the GUI, I had to type the following commands and wait about 5 minutes:

adminaccess disable http
adminaccess disable https
adminaccess certificate generate self-signed-cert
adminaccess enable http
adminaccess enable https

And here we are:

That’s it for this little post. If you have any questions please use the comment section below